Bush loses in Iowa

The big loser in the Democratic presidential caucuses in Iowa wasn't Howard Dean. It wasn't Dick Gephardt. It wasn't even Al Sharpton who managed to attract about .5 percent of the vote.

Only one thing can explain the bizarre positions taken by the White House before this week – an overconfidence that President Bush would be facing Howard Dean in his re-election bid this November. Karl Rove's polling must have made the president's political advisers so cocky about the race that they felt invulnerable.

raising spending on domestic programs by bigger percentages than any of his predecessors, including Democrats;

proposing a vague manned mission to Mars without providing even the least compelling reasons, goals and objectives?

Bush has made many other mistakes in his term, but these whoppers are very recent gaffes made leading up to an election year.

Instead of facing an angry Democrat out of touch with mainstream American values and temperament, Bush may well be facing a seasoned, smooth, mature political pro in John Kerry.

I believe if the election took place today, that ticket would have an excellent chance of beating Bush.

I say this as a dispassionate observer, a political analyst. I will not vote for either Bush or Kerry, or any other Democrat seeking the nomination.

But I think it's worth noting we are witnessing the self-destruction of a president – much like his own father self-destructed politically when he broke his "read my lips" pledge.

The latest polls show Bush in a tight race for re-election even before it's clear who his opponent might be.

As a result, Bush finds himself in a statistical dead heat with the opposition nine months before the election. When matched against an unknown Democratic presidential candidate, Bush squeaks out a 48 percent to 46 percent victory. On the question of who is most trusted to handle the nation's major problems, Bush is virtually even with Democrats, ahead 45 percent to 44 percent – down from an 18-point advantage Bush enjoyed nine months ago.

Americans think the Democrats would do a better job on domestic issues – the economy, prescription drugs for the elderly, health insurance, Medicare, the budget deficit, immigration, even taxes.

Here's the way this presidential race is shaping up: Bush will propose spending $18 billion fighting AIDS in other countries. The Democrat will up the ante to $25 billion.

Bush will propose spending 10 percent more on domestic giveaway programs. The Democrat will up the ante to 20 percent.

If it is conceded that more spending is good, a Republican will lose every single time.

And that's just what Bush has conceded with his phony, so-called "compassionate conservatism," that is really no more than old-fashioned tax-and-spend liberalism.

Bush gained no advantage with the public for his prescription-drug plan. He gained no ground with his bid to legalize millions of illegal aliens. He gained nothing from his attempt at inspiring Americans to join a new space program with a goal of a manned Mars landing. And his domestic spending increases, under attack by his own Republican base, have not served to win new independent or Democrat voters.

In fact, a CBS News poll showed similar drops for Bush support – notably over his plans on immigration.

If Bush were deliberately throwing this election, he couldn't do a more masterful job of losing votes, breaking bonds with his constituency and losing touch with his base.

If ever there was a time for a third party to emerge with some alternative ideas, 2004 is it.

I have been trying to put it all together. Bush is a rich man from a rich family whose father blew it as president over "read my lips" and because he didn't do the right thing and take out Saddam when we were over there in 91.

He's been raised on globalist propaganda like some kids are raised on milk. The ignorant American citizen needs to be duped into what's best for them, or even worse, the American citizen stands in the way of big bucks and must be marginalized.

If he is a good man, he never once stopped to ask himself that if globalism is such a good deal for Americans why it must be snuck past free citizens of a free nation. At the very least it says he disdains our intelligence, or worse that he hates his fellow countrymen and believes us evil and standing in the way of globalist progress by clinging to our worn out Constitution, the last fortress and refuge from tyranny and the tyrant, that stands in the way of globalism and has them tearing their hair out designing ways to wrest it from us.

If he is an evil man then he is actively working towards the destruction of the majority population and working for an end to our constitutional republic form of government.

We know from Fox's statements that the two of them had meetings discussing how to implement the globalist agenda of melting our borders and forming one, no borders, federation along with Canada, bringing a standardization to wages. To be joined later by the rest of the Western hemisphere. I'm sure conservative, patriotic, common sense, Americans are seen as a major hinderance in the realization of those goals.

No one can deny that Bush hit the ground running in marginalizing his conservative base and pimping himself out to moderate democrats, hispanics, and everyone else he could think to cram in that "big tent" in order to marginalize us and leave us without any representation in the USofA. He was gambling and rolling the dice. Betting the farm.

He has two daughters that are not trilled with him being president, a new ranch he really hasn't gotten to live on, and a wife that misses her friends in Texas. So he's laid it all out on the table, to a point, he certainly hasn't been forth coming about dissolving our borders, or this federation that globalist politicians work under the radar to attain.

If Bush had worked as hard for his fellow countrymens best interest as he has to fulfill his promises to his old amigo Vicente Fox and his globalist pals, we could be impressed, even greatful. He has made it clear, to anyone with a lick of sense, through two stealth attempts at 245i and now this amnesty suggestion, that this is the most important and critical goal of his Presidency. If he cannot attain it I think he wants to find that out now, up front, and a second term is not that big a thing to him.

No matter what the true intentions in his heart of hearts, I think him a dangerous man, with a dangerous plan. The FTAA treaty is a huge globalist goal, it is the sword in the heart of a free and sovereign America, and Bush is already touting it for his second term. I think, hope, we send him to Crawford. Is he the only dangerous man we will ever face? No, we are swimming in a sea of sharks, attempting gridlock when we can, and knocking them down one at a time as we can. The danger that Bush poses is not different from the dangers the other's pose it's only packaged with a bow. Making his ability to implement greater damage more successful.

It's time for Americans to put aside our naive'te, stop jumping through our own backsides out of fear of not being seen as compassionate, or fear of being accused of being racist, because now they have come for your freedom and sovereignty, telling you that it is your duty and obligation to the third world to give it up. It's time to realize where your real and first responsiblity lies, your own survival as the nation of the free and the brave based on that rock, the Constitution of the United States.

Farah nails it. When will this madness end? I would love to support W again. I simply cannot. Between the out of control spending and his Guest worker/anti-American taxpayer and worker plan, he leaves me little reason.
All of us potentially lose with his immigration plan. It's an open employment door to the workers of the world to apply for US jobs. How happy the Corporations must be. They no longer need to trouble themselves with a move offshore. The cheap labor will be brought to them right here in the US of A.
Where are the details, Jorge? If an Employer is paying $5.15 for a job that should rate $15 plus benefits and no American applies, will it go to a foreigner? If an Employer ignores the rules and doesn't offer the job to American's first, will they be punished? Who will oversee this fiasco? Who will monitor this bohemoth? What fields are going to be sacrosanct? Any of them? Will Doctors have to compete with Doctors from India? Will Engineers have to compete with Engineers from Russia? Where is the protection for American citizens, or doesn't it matter if they have no jobs? How will they feed their families? How will they pay their bills?
The only answer..if you can call it that..was more retraining money. For what? Why should Americans sacrifice and train for years for jobs they can't compete for? How can they spend hundreds of thousands on an education and then have to compete with low wage third worlders for every position? It's insane!

Good bye to the middle class in America bump. :<

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