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President Bush's Message to the Grassroots: "I Need You"
Bush Team Leaders ^ | 10/28/03 | President George W. Bush

Posted on 10/28/2003 1:09:13 PM PST by Marcus Alonzo Hanna

Dear Republican,

Over the last few months, Laura and I have traveled the country and have been humbled by the enthusiastic support we have been given.

Our country has faced many challenges in the last two and half years and we are meeting these challenges at home and abroad. We're defeating the enemies of freedom. And at the same time, we're confronting challenges to build prosperity for our nation and a more compassionate society.

Every test has revealed the true character of America. And no one in the world can doubt the spirit and will and strength of the American people.

We are meeting the challenges of our time but there is much more to be done and I need your support. Will you join me in these efforts by volunteering for my re-election campaign as a Bush Team Leader?

http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/SignUp/

As a Bush Team Leader you will be asked to help by volunteering at local events, hosting your own events, registering new voters, turning out voters on Election Day and more. Most importantly, you will be asked to recruit more Bush Team Leaders to help us win in November 2004. Please sign up to be a part of this important effort today.

http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/SignUp/

The challenges we face cannot be met with timid actions or bitter words. They will be overcome with optimism and resolve and confidence in the ideals of America.

We are acting to advance human freedom and liberty and making the world and America more secure. We took action to create jobs and get the economy growing again.

We acted on principle. You did not send me to this office to mark time. You sent me here to restore dignity and honor to the White House and to help build a safe and prosperous and caring nation. Will you join me in this effort by becoming a Bush Team Leader and volunteer your time?

http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/SignUp/

I want to thank you for the work that you will do in the months to come. There is no question in my mind that with your help we are laying the foundation to win a great victory in November of 2004.

Sincerely,


George W. Bush


P.S. Again, thank you for making my campaign strong at the grassroots level all across the country. I am grateful to the over 300,000 Americans that have contributed to my campaign and the millions more who've signed up on the campaign email list. And I am grateful to everyone that chooses to volunteer in support of this effort. I need you to make certain your friends and family register to vote. I need you to make phone calls, send emails, help organize rallies, put up signs, and get out the vote. I need you to volunteer in my campaign today.

http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/SignUp/



TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; antirat; bush; bush2004; camejo; cheney; dignity; dubya; edwards; election; gwb; gwb2004; kerry; nader; shoeleather; volunteers
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To: dcwusmc
By the way, Bush is no Arnold; so your comparison doesn't quite hold.

If the President was as far left as AS I wouldn't be supporting him.
421 posted on 10/28/2003 9:02:36 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Mudboy Slim
Yes, it's sad that he moved into our White House on only a plurality because some people's feeling were hurt and they stayed home.
423 posted on 10/28/2003 9:08:16 PM PST by Consort
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To: All
The illegal immigration problem will not be fixed by George Bush or any other President. There is no way the illegals will be deported now. There are too many of them, they've been here too long and they are too deeply entrenched in society to be kicked out. Can you imagine the bleeding heart news stories about "undocumented worker" Maria who is a single mom holding two jobs to support her kids? How dare the government try to kick her out. Multiply that times what.. 10 or 15 million? Think the soccer moms will go for that? No way.

My prediction is that if GWB is re-elected he will give them amnesty of some sort and do nothing to stem the flow of illegals. Personally, I won't vote for Bush again. And yes, I did vote for him in 2000 and his father in 1992. I might write someone in, I might just leave it blank. I'm very pessimistic about the future of our country politically, socially, morally, and economically.

I think I'm about ready to just leave all the worrying about this stuff behind. You know?
424 posted on 10/28/2003 9:23:26 PM PST by Buck72
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To: TLBSHOW

Undoubtedly there are psychologists avidly documenting and studying the ... missing links. Try the yellow pages under "Mental Health Professionals."

425 posted on 10/28/2003 9:43:47 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Buck72

That's too bad. Us conservatives, on the other hand, are filled with hope for the future.

426 posted on 10/28/2003 9:45:46 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Buck72
The illegal immigration problem will not be fixed by George Bush or any other President. There is no way the illegals will be deported now.

You're right. Besides the reasons you stated, there would also be massive civil unrest, street and campus riots, a whole new '60s movement, etc, etc.

My prediction is that if GWB is re-elected he will give them amnesty of some sort and do nothing to stem the flow of illegals.

They will get amnesty with or without George Bush, and more illegals will come and more amnesties will happen. The cycle will continue; it's the high price we will pay for not controlling our borders. It can be fixed if both parties make it happen, otherwise it will divide the country.

Personally, I won't vote for Bush again.... I might write someone in, I might just leave it blank. I'm very pessimistic about the future of our country politically, socially, morally, and economically.

That won't help things.

427 posted on 10/28/2003 10:08:42 PM PST by Consort
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To: MeeknMing
Excellent sticker!
428 posted on 10/28/2003 10:10:47 PM PST by faithincowboys ( Zell Miller is the only elected democrat in America who isn't committing treason.)
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To: Mudboy Slim
We do not have Al Gore in the White House by a margin of 535 votes.

What the left wants is just one out of a thousand people doing just what's being said in here...not voting. That action, or rather, that lack of action will have as a reaction a sufficient erosion of votes to hand the Democrats the election.

"Dubyuh thinks he's got the RightWing wrapped up becuz of the War on Terror and the tax cuts, but he's dissed us badly on the Education Bill, trade protectionism, enforcement of immigration law, the Farm Bill, etc., and has totally refused to cut domestic spending one iota!!"

You know, a good part of your answer can be found in the Democratic National Committee’s talking points; let’s address them globally, rather than on an item-by-item fashion.

George W. Bush is a WARTIME President. He is a WARTIME President like Roosevelt was a WARTIME President and Truman was a WARTIME President. He is faced with an enemy unlike any enemy ever faced by any President before him; not an army, not a nation, bur an ideology without borders and loyal to itself beyond national pride. So you, and “The Right Wing” need to stop carrying water for the DNC by trivializing the effects that the WOT has on our nation, our economy, and our way of life, as well as minimizing the very real victories that have been won in this war since its onset. By the way, I guess that you describe “The Right Wing” as those who find fault with current policies…here’s a bit of a flash: I consider myself part of “The Right Wing”, as do many others that think like I do, and disagree with people who think like you seem to do…you don’t get proprietary rights to “The Right Wing”.

You, and those who think themselves the sole proprietors of the nomenclature “The Right Wing”, spend as much time as the left pointing out the things you perceive to be failures in policy by this administration, and very little time discussing the very real advances achieved by Bush since taking office, the most obvious of course being the seeming defeat of the Democratic Party, who is floundering in total disarray, without a message, without any ideas, and without a rudder as a result of the direction, and actions taken by the Bush administration since taking office. I would be concerned Mud, when I found myself promotiong the left's talking points.

The Education Bill?

The left would have passed it and turned any opposition of it into one more bash fest of the right, and the GOP’s lack of concern for children, instead, Ted Kennedy got everything he wanted, and publicly praised the bill as being the solution to the problem of education in this nation. Today, the problems remain, and Teddy’s words, along with the fact that after having thrown all that $$$ at the situation, it remains unchanged, will lead the fight to give us what we really wanted anyway…vouchers.

Since when has trade protectionism been a conservative issue?

Show me the first conservative President that’s promoted protectionism…certainly not Reagan, the man behind NAFTA.

Our borders are watched closer today than ever before in the Nation’s history, and this administration is enforcing immigration laws more efficiently than any before it. If you don’t agree with me, show me proof otherwise.

The Farm Bill passed by Bush is nearly a carbon copy of Reagan’s Farm Bill…was Reagan, the man who issued amnesty to illegals (Bush hasn’t), passed a Farm Bill, and enacted NAFTA not a “Right Winger” Mud?

The tactics of the self-appointed “Right Wing consciousness" of the conservative movement, once before left as their legacy what came to be known as the Clinton Administration; I see them at it again, dividing the vote so that we can be more easily defeated. I wish they would get a grip, and try to understand politics.

429 posted on 10/28/2003 10:31:10 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Those who think they know, really piss off those of us who truly do.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez; Mudboy Slim
Luis, did Reagan ever cut overall
domestic spending? I don't think
so. Even as CA Gov. I think not.
430 posted on 10/28/2003 10:39:01 PM PST by txrangerette
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To: engrpat
You identified yourself as a one issue voter to me.

"Without secure borders we have no defense."

Tell me of a time in the hisatory of the US, including World War Two, when our borders where more secure.

"Voting is no longer reserved for citizens."

That's a load of crap, and you should be ashamed of yourself for bleating such nonsense. Are you trying to convince someone that at one time or another during the History of this country there were perfect elections conducted where cheating did not go on?

Or can you point me to a national bill giving the voting priviledge to non-citizens?

"...our economic security is being put in danger by his (and yes others including both parties) failure to control immigration."

So, this immigration issue must be a brand new one, it must just have popped up since this Bush administration took office, because the economy of the United States has been on a boom since the Reagan administration, with the possible exception of a small downturn these past two years, mostly brought about by the impact of 9/11.

By the way, don't look now, but the economy has rebounded.

431 posted on 10/28/2003 10:39:30 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Those who think they know, really piss off those of us who truly do.)
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To: txrangerette
Then Reagan must not have been a conservative.

432 posted on 10/28/2003 10:40:26 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Those who think they know, really piss off those of us who truly do.)
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To: txrangerette
By the way, Clinton did cut spending, and passed some strict immigration laws.

Clinton must have been a conservative.
433 posted on 10/28/2003 10:41:26 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Those who think they know, really piss off those of us who truly do.)
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To: txrangerette
Oh!

And Clinton cut down the size of government!

He cut down the number of people in the military by being fiscally conservative and not giving them raises!

The more you listen to the self-appointed "Right Wing", the more you realize just how much in common they have with the Left.
434 posted on 10/28/2003 10:43:27 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Those who think they know, really piss off those of us who truly do.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Bravo. Those are the misguided Ideologically Correct purists that I dubbed "Clinton Conservatives".
435 posted on 10/28/2003 10:45:07 PM PST by Consort
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To: Mudboy Slim
do you really believe the country would have been endangered if Gore had become the POTUS?

Yes. You seem to forget that Clinton enjoyed a 70% approval rating BECAUSE of the impeachment. If The Senate had removed him, Gore would have been an incumbent for 2 years with all the electoral advantage incumbency brings with it. The best thing that happened was the stigma of impeachment while allowing a stigmatized Clinton to stay around long enough to let the stigma sink into the pre-911 silliness we called the American voters.

436 posted on 10/28/2003 10:47:50 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: Marcus Alonzo Hanna
I voted for him in 2000 but will not next year. He has done nothing to protect our borders. Iraq's borders are more secure than our own for God's sake. If Dubya wants support, he can ask the illegal aliens for it.
437 posted on 10/28/2003 10:48:28 PM PST by dougherty (A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Excellent analysis. I agree wholeheartedly.

Attempts by some to frame it as similar to the McClintock/Shwarzenegger schism are absurd. I can understand having voted for McClintock (I would've too if I lived in CA, because I had no real fear Bustamante would win), but in that case, there was someone -more conservative running-. As you correctly pointed out, several of the things he's getting flak for are not conservative policies anyway, such as protectionism.

I agree with your assessment of the Education Bill. Frankly, the Dems got what they wanted and it's clearly failed. The "we just need to throw more money at it" idea simply isn't going to wash anymore. If he'd tried hard to knock it down, it would've passed anyway and the Right would've looked like crap afterwards. Now the Right and vouchers look so dazzlingly successful compared to Democrat failure that we stand an awesome chance of getting them passed.

To those who said "Just one term of RAT is better than never having a conservative again", apply the same logic but on a single issue level. Just one term of Kennedy's "No Child Left Behind", but now that it's visibly failed we stand an excellent chance for a permanent long term solution.

Oh, and there's one group to which Bush -has- opened the borders, and rightly - Cubans. The Wet Foot/Dry Foot policy was an abomination, literally applied physical Darwinism, only the Fittest, Strongest Swimmers Allowed. He gets my eternal gratitude for that.

Qwinn
438 posted on 10/28/2003 10:54:05 PM PST by Qwinn
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To: Qwinn; Consort
Check out this great quote by Consort:

"Those are the misguided Ideologically Correct purists that I dubbed "Clinton Conservatives".

I like that..."Clinton Conservatives".

I'm stealing that Consort, fair warning.

439 posted on 10/28/2003 11:13:21 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Those who think they know, really piss off those of us who truly do.)
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To: dougherty
"He has done nothing to protect our borders."

That's the biggest laod of manure being strewn around this site in a long, long time.

There have been more resources directed at Border protection during this administration than during any other administration. Hell, we didn't even have a functional Border Patrol trying to stop illegal crossings until 1952!

There is technology being sent, new agents hired, and co-operation between thew armed forces and the Border Patrol that simply did not exist before.

There have been more deprotations during this administration than during any previous one.

Get your facts straight!

440 posted on 10/28/2003 11:21:09 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Those who think they know, really piss off those of us who truly do.)
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