1. Bush completely supports racial preferences. It was the White House counsel, an AA appointee named Alberto Gonzales, who ordered the Justice Dept. to narrow theor argument in the Grutter case so that O'Connor could enshrine racial preferences in the constitution. O'Connor was one of Reagan's greatest mistakes. She is an intellectual midget who was nothing more than a party apparatchik in the AZ Republican Party. Being a female to boot, it was a great two-fer: Payoff for the support of the AZ Party, and a sop to the feminists who were busy agitating for a female justice. To top it off, when asked about the Grutter decision, which is the moral equivalent of the Dred Scott decision since white Americans are enshrined as being 'less equal' than others, President Bush's only responese was to parrot a Marxist slogan: "Diversity is our strength!"
2. GW Bush is indeed only marginally better than Kerry on defense. He has continued Clinton's policies of a) allowing women in poistions very cole to combat; b) the "don't ask - don't tell facade for allowing gay infiltration of the military; c) refused to expand the numbers (as mentioned); d) continued Clinton's racial preference scheme, which replaced the previous truly color-blind system that had worked admirably since the Truman adminstration; e) selling off our military technology to the Chinese - smart bombs are now made in China.
3. Second Amendment. GW Bush has expicitly stated that he will sign a renewed Assaut Weapons ban. There has been a steady erosion of the second amendment. Judges have made ourtrageously unconstitutional decisions regarding this issue and Republicans - the plaid-pants Country Club types who own and operate the party - could care less.
4. Abortion. It's fascinating to see how many pro-lifers fell for the sham partial-birth abortion law and pledged their loyalty to Dubya. The Imperial Supreme Court has already decided that partial birth abortion is part of the constitution, even if equal protection of the law isn't (some of us being more equal than others). The law was a sop to pro-lifers to buy their votes - nothing more. It's already been struck down by a Marxist judge, and will certainly be decalred unconstitutional by a host of others. The one thing GWB could have done to truly influence the courts was to support Pat Toomey's challenge to the abominable leftist RINO pro-abortionist Areln Specter, who will be in charge of the Senate Judiciary Committee should the Republicans maintain control of the Senate. Specter will make sure that no pro-life judge is seated. Bush campaigned for Specter against the unabashedly pro-life Toomey. There's no excuse. As with defense, Bush is at best only marginally better than Kerry. At least Kerry is honest about hos support of abortion.
Oh, and lest we forget: GWB had nothing but effusive praise for Bill Clinton, a President who actually betrayed the country to a hostile foreign power by selling sensitive military technology which has enabled them to delpoy missiles capable of vaporizing American cities. Not only has Dubya left numerous of the Clinton un-dead walking the halls of Federal agencies (Norman Mineta being as shining example), he refuses to prosecute the numerous crimes of the criminal Clinton gang. Even worse, the Bush Justice Dept. has been spending our tac dollars to defend the criminal activities of the Clintons against lawsuits. Again, there's no excuse.
The Republican Party is owned and operated by Corporatist apparatchiks who care nothing about the issues that religious people and other social conservatives care about. There have been 120 documented incidents of the Mexican Army crossing the border in the last decade. As someone mentioned, the open-borders Jihadis at the Wall Street Journal flatly advocate the abolition of the United States as an independent political entity by diisoving its borders. Illegal aliens are now allowed to vote (suppoesedly only in local elections - hahaha), sit in juries, receive in-state tuition, welfare (free medical care, housing, food stamps), obtain driver's licenses, open bank accounts, etc., etc. As others have mentioned, Bush's amnesty plan to legalize ethe lawless basically would allow any foreign national to underbid an American worker for their job. To top it all off, the Imperial Supreme Court declared this week that enemby combatants - foreign nationals captured in persuing armed action gainst the United States - are entitled to the constitutional protections that normally would only apply to citizens, Any expression of outrage over such a lawless re-write of the Constitution? Does that oath the President and others take really mean anything? I guess it's just a formaility now - nothing more.
Kerry and Bush are not substantively different on any issue of importance to bona-fide conservatives. It's a sad state of affairs. Bush has the edge only insofar that he is less honest about his liberalism than Kerry.
Excellent rant bump!
You are a fool.
The Republican Party is owned and operated by Corporatist apparatchiks who care nothing about the issues that religious people and other social conservatives care about.
I'm sorry...you're a 'rats...and you're long winded.
Pat Toomey couldn't get 50% of the Republican vote. How could he possible win centrist and liberal votes? Did I mention you're an idiot?
You've been drinking too much of that Naderite kool-aid.
Overwhelmingly ridiculous.
Forgive me for not reading through all of your prose, but if it was as assinine as that tidbit there's really no need to. You are either grossly uninformed or very dishonest.
Commie libs at the Wall Street Journal again. You are a joke.
WELL STATED!!
I’d only take one exception to your astute post, your statement; "To top it all off, the Imperial Supreme Court declared this week that enemy combatants - foreign nationals captured in pursuing armed action against the United States - are entitled to the constitutional protections that normally would only apply to citizens,"
The SC only ruled that people detained within the US, are entitled to some minimal rights. This ruling actually helps Bush because the administration is now arguing that GITMO is US territory to avoid granting the prisoners rights under an international treaty the US is a party to.
By ruling that Gitmo is US territory, the Supremes gave Bush cover in his argument against giving the prisoners greater rights under the treaty. It was a really slick move by Bush. That is one thing you have to give the man; he is slick. He makes Clinton look like an armature when it comes to slick.