The problem is this: President Bush needs to ramp up the war on terror and set the troops free in Iraq (and elsewhere to WIN this thing instead of having them fight with one or both hands tied behind their backs due to unrealistic "rules of engagement". We need to find and kill that little turd Muktar Alsader; something we should have done YEARS ago when he was a small problem.
The president needs to act upon plans already in place to strike Iran's nuclear facilities and Iran itself in order to stop Mad president Tom's apocalyptic plans to destroy America, Israel and the West, control the Middle East and it's oil and bring about the return of the Maddi from the well. Iran needs to be immediately stopped from medaling in Iraq and the West.
The President should NOT be playing Clinton 2 when it comes to North Korea. We should not be giving one cent's worth of ANY aid to that human piece of excrement lill Kim. His word and the word/promises of his so-called "government" isn't worth the toilet paper it is written on. Even so, instead of bringing his evil regime to it's knees and collapse as we did with Russia, we are planning on giving him FOUR TIMES MORE goodies than Clown Clintoon did to get him to "promise" to behave, "play nice" and merely "put his nuke program on hold".
The illegal alien and unsecured boarder problems are President Bush's fault. He could stop the influx of illegals in two to four months if he genuinely secured our boarders by calling out the National Guard and setting them free to stop, arrest or shoot those crossing the boarders. But he staunchly refuses to do so because he and his business buds want cheap labor with the real costs ending up on the backs of honest taxpaying American citizens.
Lack of energy independence ane our reliance on the Middle East is also Mr. Bush's fault. Energy is a vital national/defense issue. By executive order he coulr order drilling in Alaska and other areas. Relax the regs for new nuclear facilities and construction which is desperately needed. As for oil, we are spending BILLIONS of dollars saving the Iraqu's butts, they should be made to pony up and help us with oil. Who cares what the "blood for oil" kooks say; the fact of the matter is we will not survive as a nation running on electric cars that go 50 to 100 miles and die for lack of juice, bio deisel or ethanol.
It is President Bush's and the conservative Republican's fault the democrats have been winning the propaganda war here in the USA. They lie to the American people on a daily basis about EVERYTHING and no one on our side calls them on ANY of it! There have also been massive security leaks in the war on terror: These people are TRAITORS, who, if this were WW2, would have been imprisoned or put to death for the antics they are pulling. But NOTHING is happening, nothing is done to punish them, because the people in power on our side REFUSE to deal with ANY of them. With the result they keep on doing what they have been doing and getting away with it.
I could go on but why bother; Americans want to act like September 11th never happened. They want to live in a September 10th world while Islamofascists and their Islamic States along with communist China, Venezuela, North Korea, etc... plot our destruction and demise.
Sadly; hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans are going to have to die before the public and the politicians take any of this seriously and even then the media will blame America when it is attacked. It will be our fault; "if only we had been more understanding of Islam." "If only we had sought to 'dialog'/understand them." You get the picture.
Until then, the Islamic terrorists will continue to attack us like they did last week in a Utah mall and the press will continue to gloss over the facts and not mention that Islam is behind the attacks and that the attackers are Muslums, not extremists but Muslims doing exactly what their so-called blood thirsty, Satan worshipping "religion" tells them to do to all of us "infidels" in order to gain entrance to perpetual eroticland where they will have super human erections, 72 perpetual virgins and lots of sleek young men to fulfill their every perverted sexual fantasies... forever.
Instead, the press, along with our politicians will continue to say that the ongoing and increasing attacks are merely "isolated incidents" that have nothing to do with Islam.
Forgive me for the rant but platforms are only good if you have MEN with the guts, fortitude and resolve to put them into place and practice without compromise, no matter what the cost. Frankly, I do not see ANY Republican on the political horizon willing to do that and even if there were, given the feckless cowardice of the American public and their delusional desire to continue believing/living in a September 10th fantasy land when we are in fact living in a post September 11th world that is filled with people (and nation states) within and without our nation who are bent on our conversion, enslavement death and destruction.
The Republicans do not stand a chance of getting elected, unless President Bush and our party finally steps up to the plate, play political hardball and begins to do what he and they should have been doing all along since September 11th; putting the country on a genuine war footing and doing what ever it takes, what ever it costs, no matter how difficult, to win! Only then; when the American people can see that BECAUSE OF OUR POLICIES AND STAUNCHLY FOLLOWING AND IMPLEMENTING A STRONG CONSERVATIVE PLATFORM, we are winning the war on terror, controlling the borders and illegal immigration, getting our energy interests under control, in order to preserve the present and future life of the nation, that treason will not be tolerated and those who actively betray the nation are severely punished, only then will the American people recognize the truth and turn to presidential and state candidates that espouse the platform you have presented. In my opinion; unless and until that takes place we cannot and will not win.
Your position sounds like it could be summed up as "it's Bush's fault".