However, I do expect my president to set a tone, so to speak, that the nation can rally behind. Reagan did this very well. Bush is not Reagan, but the tone I hear from Washington is hurting my ears.
It's hurting deeper than that. We all knew that a gore presidency would have expanded the government and curtailed freedom at every opportunity. We didn't want that, so we chose a so-called conservative who claimed to support limited government, lower taxes and more freedom.
Now that he has turned - the only appropriate word for Bushes mix of expanded government and central control of business is "fascist" - Bush has sold out the only remaining freedom-loving people in America - people like us.
What Bush has done reminds me of the battle in the movie Braveheart where the troops which were to attack the English flank just rode away and left the freedom fighters to die.