2. Yes, the President is not a conservative in the old GOP tradition, I wish that he were. I would like nothing better than to see the US return to the Monroe/T Roosevelt doctine and begin over the coming years to extricate ourselves from the rest of the world and concentrate on the western hemisphere. No matter who we elect in the next 50 years that will not happen.
3. The one and only choice for anyone with a drop of consevative blood is Bush. Kerry is weak, spineless, and will have this country groveling before the UN if he is allowed to come to power. I genuinely fear that, God forbid, a two term Kerry presidency will leave this country as somthing we would all be horrified to see. That alone is the reason to vote for Bush. Yes he is the lesser of evils you might say, but he is much much ... much lesser than the alternative.
"I would like nothing better than to see the US return to the Monroe/T Roosevelt doctine and begin over the coming years to extricate ourselves from the rest of the world and concentrate on the western hemisphere. No matter who we elect in the next 50 years that will not happen."
It's negative thinking like that which will ensure it won't happen. Buck up!
"Yes he is the lesser of evils you might say, but he is much much ... much lesser than the alternative"
Conservatism has a dialectic of its own. A people cannot become truly conservative unless they have an oppresive liberalism (i.e. socialism) to react against. Change comes through this contradiciton. I believe Hegel called it "heightening the contradictions". Or as that great philosopher Steve Miller put it" "you have to go through hell before you get to Heaven."