And you are flat wrong in your statements about what Bush campaigned on in 2000. He said he'd support a drug benefit for medicare recipients, raise federal funding for education, raise defense spending, and cut taxes. He also said he'd bomb any detected WMD sites in Iraq and support an overthrow of Saddam.
You reiterate that the American people are stupid, and your proof is that you have disagreed with them. That's cogent. It obviously needs no argument that you are their superior. Obviously Bush would be well advised to do whatever you say, because you are his better and wiser, just as you are better and wiser than his bosses.
In fact, it is a deep impenetrable mystery why you aren't already running the country in his place. Why, you'd just explain that you are for a smaller government, which polls support, and every would smack their foreheads in unison and say, "gee, he'd take an oath, what were we thinking? We coulda had a limited republic under First Citizen for Life GSC. Who wants all these freebies taken from the rich?"
Then the clouds would part, and a great white hand would come down and carry you aloft over congress, intoning, "thou shalt not tax and spend. Thou shalt make no graven regulations. Thou shalt not bother your constituents, but shall leave them to my all-sighted preaching." Then the lion would lie down with the lamb, and socialism would be but a memory; manna would rain, taxes would be paid by 3 foreigners and a single remaining liberal kept around for display purposes; all foreign enemies would realize how invincibly popular you are and not dare to cut off a single additional American head, and all the enlightened minds of conservatism present and future would humbly bow before your shrine, exclaiming as one, "just don't sell out, and victory for all that is right and true shall always follow automatically by divine providence."
Amen.
Meanwhile that idjit W has only won elections and cut taxes a measly trillion dollars and ended a recession and won 2 wars, and geez he had 3 and a half whole years to do it in, too. Numbskull should go to school at your feet, clearly.
Whatever. I have a life, so this will be my last post on this topic.
“You are flat wrong on what Bush campaigned on in 2000.”
He said he was for a limited government. He increased it at the fastest rate in decades. He said he was against the Campaign Finance Reform Bill – then he signed it. When it comes to spending, he didn’t compromise, he sold out.
“You reiterate that the American people are stupid, and your proof is that you have disagreed with them.”
My proof is that they voted for Clinton two consecutive terms. If that isn’t stupid, I don’t know what is. Do you think that was a smart thing to do? If they acted stupid by voting for Clinton, don’t you think they could act stupid again by voting for Kerry? Yes. That’s all I’m saying.
“In fact, it is a deep impenetrable mystery why you aren't already running the country in his place.”
Okay, now you’re just being stupid. This is a political discussion board. We give opinions about politics. Just because I say that Bush is making a bad move by focusing so much on the War in Iraq doesn’t mean that I think I should be president. Calm down and take a few deep breaths. I’m sure that, in your life, you’ve also made a few political predictions, like, um, maybe saying that Kerry could never win?
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Oh brother. If anyone here is living in the clouds, it is definitely you! “Oh, don’t worry, the American people are too smart to vote for Kerry – Bush will win. Besides, how could he not win, it’s his job to get votes. I know that the polls might disagree with me sometimes, but that’s okay because, every poll is biased. Only I know what’s going to happen, because only I know that the American people are too smart to vote for Kerry.”
Yeah, right. And I’m the one that’s naïve.