It's impossible to agree with someone on every issue. That includes a President of your own party. I try to pick and choose those issues that mean the most to me, viewed through my practical conservative viewpoint. When I take those issues that mean the most to me and bounce them off PresBush, I find myself in agreement with him roughly 70%-75% of the time.
However, I don't believe Bush is the lesser of two evils. I believe Bush is an instinctive conservative, more then an ideologue. More importantly, Bush supports many of the saame issues I do. OTOH, John Kerry is a liberal Democrat, who I have nothing in common with.
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I gave it a quick look-see. One comment. Whether you and I like it or not, abortion is a political. In fact, its one of the hot button political issues of our time and the USSC made it so. Whatever the SC says, is law of the land. Remember, Marbury v Madison.
That wasn't the holding in MvM.
I think that abortion is a moral issue that has recently (over the last 40 years) become more of a political issue. I won't say that I won't vote against a pro-choice candidate or necessarily vote for a pro-life candidate. I don't rate it up there as a determining factor when deciding who merits my support, be it financial/vote/time, etc.
I was a campaign manager of a state representative candidate that was a pro-choice, fiscal conservative Republican (we live in a very liberal district that usually has to put up token resistence to pro-union, environmental wackos). We were glad to actually get within 5% of winning.
I have withheld support from Republicans that made anti-Mormon comments which is extremely intolerant and extremely stupid considering that most Mormons in Washington State are Republican and a large voting bloc.