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No. ...I'm a fan of small gov't. It seems you don't understand what a "seminar" poster is. Well, I'll tell you. It's someone who signs up, claims to be a Republican/Bush supporter, and then says he's "had it" with either the party or the party leadership. In fact, the (seminar) poster in question is a big-gov't loving Democrat whose sole purpose is disruption --- to attempt to persuade others to a course of action (ie, NOT voting for Bush). Whether you in fact are one of these people remains to be seen, but your sign-up date combined with your statement I highlighted above makes you mighty suspicious.

"No. ...I'm a fan of small gov't. "

Good. At least we do agree on this!

"It seems you don't understand what a "seminar" poster is. "

I didn't - thanks for informing me. I can assure you that I'm not bolting to the left anytime soon, but I do hold my elected officials to a standard: To at least give lip service to the platform they ran on. You cannot deny two things: That Bush ran on a platform of Less Big Gov't...and that he has done little to accomplish that platform.

Why me expressing disdain at Bush's failure to rein in gov't spending and size makes me some kind of bad guy here, or worse, a stinkin' liberal Democrat, is ludicrous. Noone despises the anti-individualist, more-gov't-in-your-lives movement of the idiot liberal left more than I. Which is one of the reasons I voted GOP (I've yet to cast a vote for a Dem in my lifetime, fyi). Still, just because I vote for GOP doesn't mean that I don't hold them to standards. I applaud Bush's foreign policy moves, esp. given the unstable world he "inherited" from Clintax. But that success doesn't make him impervious to criticism elsewhere in his adminstration. Remember that his Daddy's "Read My Lips" broken pledge helped lead to his unfortunate outing in '92. Actions have consequences, and I, for one, do NOT want to see the Leftist Sheep have any 'broken-campaign-promises' ammo in '04. Why you don't have a problem with this puzzles me.

"Whether you in fact are one of these people remains to be seen, but your sign-up date combined with your statement I highlighted above makes you mighty suspicious."

I give you my heartfelt apologies that I failed to stumble across FR until recently. Other than that, any "mighty suspicious" behavior I've noted is coming from any of us GOP supporters who refuse to hold our politicians to the standards we elected them to. If they have any brains (questionable), the Sheep may use these failed promises of smaller gov't against us in '04. If they do, don't blame me!