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Bush versus Kerry: What Conservatives Are Missing
Robert Barr, a former Congressman from Georgia, has alleged that America has been betrayed by George Bush in posing as a conservative. If you compare what Bush has actually done and supported, rather than all the campaign rhetoric, Barr has a point. Chuck Baldwin provides an excellent comparison of the real President Bush versus John Kerry in his article, "The Bush Betrayal," which every conservative should read and think about.
What amazes me is the intense passion that conservatives showed in supporting their liberal candidate, who, apart from rhetoric, was not all that different from his fellow liberal Skull and Bones opponent.
Expect more growth of government, more limitations on personal liberty, more spending, more transfer of sovereignty to the UN or other multinational bodies (e.g., the FTAA), more outsourcing of jobs, more support for Communist China at the expense of democracy (e.g., expect Taiwan to be betrayed), and so forth. Did your passionate vote really make a difference? The proponents of big government had nothing to worry about in this election. The most important election in your lifetime? No way.
I suggest we focus on Congress, looking to put in some honest men and women who can stand for the Constitution and withstand the erosion of liberty and the destruction of our economy through deficit spending. We need a Congress that can oppose the huge expansion of Presidential power that we have seen in recent years, a clear and direct threat to the principles of the Constitution. The President has become far too powerful for liberty to survive.
Among conservatives in the know, this is common knowledge.
For
instance:
Dept. of Homland Security
Out of control deficit
spending
Perscription Drug Entitlement
Open boarders
Amnesty for
Illegals
etc.
The list goes on and on. Reaganite conservative republicans don't like it and the alternative was totally unacceptable.
You could argue that most hard core conservatives had a choice between the
worse of two evils. I have heard Kerry compared to Bush before 9/11. I
think that is a good comparison.
We conservatives can only keep speaking up and hoping that some of our concerns leak through to the man with the plan.
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Not in all states was there only a choice between two evils. In some,
there was the option to vote your conscience, for the Libertarian or
Constitution party.
If you vote for the lessor of two evils, you have still voted for evil.
I go to the booth every election. I do NOT always vote for all the positions being voted on. In the Sept. 2004 edition of The Freeman http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=6232 Leonard E. Read writes: "Where is the American who will argue that responsible citizenship requires casting a ballot if a Hitler and a Stalin were the opposing candidates?"
I highly recommend the article, as well as a print subscription to The Freeman (web is free, but not all articles make it there).
You make excellent points. Americans need to think outside the ballot box.
Protecting democracy involves much more than simply voting - especially
when the choice is between two people who do not adequately value
liberty.
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"Expect more... more outsourcing of jobs..."
Well, at least that's something positive.