Posted on 10/17/2004 10:54:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
My oldest daughter turned 18 just in time to vote in this presidential election. She is a product of a the California public school system and is attending a Western state university. I convinced her to register to vote because of the importance of fulfilling her civic duty, but she still hasn't made up her mind between Bush and Kerry. Her appetite for politics is pretty low and she doesn't have much spare time to read up on the issues and candidates because of her college workload.
How would you go about convincing her to vote for Bush? Can you recommed a short and concise summary of the candidate's positions? I especially want to explain to her how dangerous Kerry would be to our nation's survival, but she tends to dismiss any information provided by Dad as being terribly biased.
I've saved many articles over the spring and summer from many great authors and analysts like Steyn, Davis-Hanson, Henniger, etc., but it takes a person a long time to digest all these to form a coherent view of why Bush is good and Kerry is bad.
What would you do? Thanks for your help!
We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the "greater glory of the United States." We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars-in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such as other organizations have recently been unable to provide. We will not take solace from the creation of monuments or the naming of parks after a select few of the thousands of dead Americans and Vietnamese. We will not uphold traditions which decorously memorialize that which was base and grim.
You want a two sentence summation to block 12 years of public education?
Should have thought of that when you sent her to public school.
Tell her to make up her own mind. That might be a start.
Kerry keeps complaining about the war in Iraq, but he doesn't realize that Bush has created the equivalent of a Roach Motel. The jihadists are flocking to the Mideast, sure, but that's instead of their flocking HERE to wage jihad on our schoolchildren like in Beslan.
It is tragic ANY time one of our military gives his or her life, but the only choices you have are waging the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, or waging it here. We can't ignore or appease this enemy (like Kerry wants to do). Kerry is so 9/10.
That usually explains it in terms they can understand. They usually respond "oh, but the war in Iraq is a failure." You can counter with, "sure, according to the news media who are shilling for Kerry, but NOT according to the men and women who are actually doing the fighting. Things are going pretty darn well." Refer them to the blogs and Emails with the actualy reports of the boots on the ground.
well, sometimes you just have to wait for people to grow up. My mother, a lifelong Democrat voter, a sometime peace activist, has already voted absentee for Bush, because of the terrorist threat, because she knows Kerry is a total phony in dealing with the threat, AND for the whole Republican slate in NJ because of McGreevey's sexual, security, bribery and other scandals. And she has written to the state Democrats to tell them so.
So give your daughter another 50 years and she will be fine.
Most kids haven't thought too deeply about it, most don't. Suggest that she vote for the one she thinks is honorable, the one that will bring the most credit to the White House.
My son just turned 18 and registered to vote. He knows who to vote for by simply hearing the discussions in our household (and by me throwing objects at the TV when I see Kerry).
Has your daughter ever been betrayed by one or more of her friends?
If so, ask her how she felt. Did her friends apologize? Does she still hang out with them?
Then point out that John Kerry not only betrayed his brothers in the military by lying about them before Congress but he also betrayed his country by meeting with the Vietcong while he was still in uniform. He never apologized. He still won't release his military records. He may not even be eligible to run for president.
A zebra doesn't change its stripes. Once a traitor always a traitor.
Does she think it is wise to have a commander in chief that has and continues to betray the military while we are at war?
By the way, there is nothing responsible about voting for the sake of voting.
"How would you go about convincing her to vote for Bush? "
I wouldn't try to convince her. Frankly, she sounds more healthy than the rest of us who are obsessing over this stuff on the internet. I would just have a lot of newspapers around so that she is well informed and let her make up her own mind.
You can probably figure out the one issue that would grab her attention, and it's likely tied to what she plans to major in ... economics, biology, forestry, etc.
She'll take the time to at least ponder her vote, if you can get her to focus on that one issue.
Ask her to watch these two ads.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247731/posts
Easy, VOTE FOR KERRY AND PAY FOR YOUR OWN EDUCATION!!! The man paying the bills still has the say!
Tell her:
"When you were 15, 3000 innocent Americans were murdered by people who hate our freedom and way of life. Since that time, instead of acting in fear or hate, we have spread freedom to 50 million people. Since that time, no more attacks have struck on our soil. The person most singly responsible for this is George W. Bush."
I'd encourage her to look at the 100 days Plan of John Kerry. Tell her it's been archived as he pulled it off his website because when many young people saw he has a plan to make service for them a requirement for graduation, many young people balked.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040210043828/www.johnkerry.com/issues/natservice/
No, you can't wait that long. She will vote every 2 or 4 years and for the other side.
Her mind needs to be changed NOW!
Also if Jesus were voting would he vote for a pro-abortion & pro-homosexual kerry vs a pro-life & pro-hetrosexual marriage GW?
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