ZOT! Can there be a serious challenge to Bush in the GOP primaries?

I am a nationally published journalist who has been drafted to challenge George W. Bush in the Republican Presidential primaries, beginning in New Hampshire on January 27. My aim is to prompt legitimate debate and genuine new ideas, but I start with a question:

He has failed in his promise to control spending. Nondefense spending has skyrocketed under Bush. The Congressional Budget Office reported that for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, nondefense spending rose 7% – nearly double the 4% discretionary spending caps Bush promised to enforce (Source: Washington Times). Since Bush took office, nondefense spending has leapt 13% -- 21% if spending on the war on terrorism is included. “My impression of Bush,” says Chris Edwards, director of fiscal policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, “is that I’ve never seen him give a speech in which he says government is too big and we need to cut costs.”

He has failed in his promise to keep America strong. Under Bush, U.S. foreign policy and international esteem have reached historic lows. After spending hundreds of billions of dollars since 9/11, the Bush administration has failed to catch Osama bin Laden, failed to find Saddam Hussein, failed to defeat Al Qaeda, and failed to stabilize Iraq after an invasion that his own Pentagon policy adviser, Richard Perle, now admits was “illegal.” As a result, the geopolitical balance of power has been jolted, traditional allies have been severely alienated, and as a result, the European Union – led by Great Britain – is now conducting secret talks about the formation of an EU military force outside NATO.

He has failed in his promise to be a “compassionate conservative.” Perhaps never before has a U.S. President so divided the country, according to a recent Time cover story. Despite Bush’s promise to be “a uniter, not a divider,” he has turned Republican against Democrat, rich against poor, Christian against Muslim. He has eroded our civil liberties and Constitutional rights in the name of “national security” and aided and abetted a corporate elite class in the theft of the Republican Party and the two-century-old values that made it the Party of Lincoln. “Corporations have been enthroned,” Lincoln said presciently before he died. “…An era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people…until wealth is aggregated in a few hands…and the Republic is destroyed.” Under Bush, Lincoln’s ominous – and accurate – prediction might find its final manifestation unless he and the “neo-con” corporate juggernaut are stopped.

DO YOU AGREE? Please let me know your thoughts. There will be more to come from me, including a detailed platform and agenda for ending the corporate reign in this country, shrinking the federal bureaucracy, and restoring Constitutional freedoms to pre-9/11 levels. Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to your comments and questions.

I would like to give you a well thought out response, not something flippant off the top of my head.

At this time I think the only one that can defeat Bush, is Bush himself and he is a very astute politician. There is no doubt that he has lost some of his conservative base. How much is the question. Has he picked up more votes from the conservative democrat and minoirity hispanic side to offest and surpass the net loss of conservative voters?

If there were no WOT going on I think 2004 might prove to be another squeaker, but because there is a WOT, it would be hard to unseat him just out of the voters instinct not to change horses in the middle of a stream or an important ongoing war.

The Republican Party has moved far left, there is no way to tell if that was a smart move for the Party until 2008. Conservatives have been dumped and they know it, now they have zero representation in this nation and no reason to go to the polls other than national security because of this war.

If you would be President my best advice would be to run in 2008 and make immigration a part of your platform. Take on the issue that concerns most Americans and that all but a few politicians are running from and you will gain a ton of votes from people that haven't voted in years on that one issue alone.

The majority of Americans sit out the polls because both parties are the same and moving ever more left. Give them a reason to vote. And don't be afriad to use EO's, get your judicial appointments through during recesses, and play dirty with demoncrats.

Now if there is a major terrorist attack on American soil due to our unprotected borders all bets are off. Bush will have cut his own political throat from ear to ear with the voting public that is already up in arms about our protecting borders all over the world yet claiming it's impossible to do here, along with their upset over the cost of illegal immigration to our budget and culture.

Make your platform about American sovereignty, Fair Trade, instead of artifically manipulated Free Trade, point out the U.N.'s effect on our daily lives, outsourcing that builds the economy and military capablilities of a dangerous enemy, point out to the voting public the battle going on for the soul of this nation between communist/socialists, big business, and conservative constitutionalists and there will be alot of voter registration going on.

Rail against the taxes and regulations that make business's flee overseas while condeming the greed that prompts them to risk the security of the nation for their slave wage bottom line. Talk about balance between creating wealth while guarding the foundations of freedom.

Compassion begins at home would be a good slogan. As far as alienating Europe, we cannot go the direction Europe is going. It's time for a parting of the way. They are speeding down the road to totalitarianism. What Germany could not take in war they are taking by deceit.

We must develop new alliances with Eastern Europe and people that still remember the fresh horror of the communism that they just came from. Trade with America breaks or makes most nations of the world, use that power wisely to punish and reward.

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