[LS]

Hypothetical: It's 1904 and you have a choice of voting for Teddy Roosevelt, a patriot, a man of honesty and integrity, a "big-defense guy" but one who clearly does NOT see any problem with business-bashing or infringing on SOME constitutional liberties, OR you can vote for the socialist (Eugene Debs) or the "Populist Democrat," William Jennings Bryan, who wanted total isolationism, an income tax, government ownership of all railroads and grain elevators, and rampant government-sponsored inflation.

I will fight against this bill with everything I have, but the world keeps turning, and REGARDLESS of what he does with this bill, I have to think that Bush is so superior in other important ways for the Republic that it would be assinine to vote for a DEM (which is what a vote for anyone else is).

[weikel]

I would normally agree but Bush( I hope he will veto it) not vetoing such a blatantly unconstituitional act is deeply disturbing to me. I can't support a man who does not protect the 1st & 2nd amendments.

[Charlotte Corday]

I want to thank you for one of the most honest posts I've seen on this forum since I joined (admittedly only a couple of months ago).

What I think I hear you saying is that you support the Republicans because they only advocate X number of unconstitutional things, whereas the Democrats advocate (X times 3) unconstitutional things.

Now I may not think you are right in doing so, but at least you've stated the issue clearly.

[jla]

You may have misinterpreted my question to Jim Robinson.
I thought it was a fair question & I just wanted to know his, & the official FR, stance.

I have every intention of voting for Dubya in three years.

By the way, and I'm being totally honest here, my late father's first and middle name was 'Eugene Debs".
His brother, my late uncle who died when I was very young, was named 'Karl Marx', (he preferred 'Bud' though).
Something tells me that my paternal grandfather wasn't as conservative as I am.

[ottersnot]

I will fight against this bill with everything I have, but the world keeps turning, and REGARDLESS of what he does with this bill, I have to think that Bush is so superior in other important ways for the Republic that it would be assinine to vote for a DEM (which is what a vote for anyone else is).

well said. I agree.