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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Aggie who wrote (102584)	12/6/2000 10:48:15 AM
From: Futurist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I appreciate your message and your critique. Menken's comment certainly has merit, and it is reminiscent of Churchill's view that only a heartless person would be a conservative as a youth and only a fool would be a liberal as an older person. I've tried to ponder that in my own life. My moderation impulses are definitely strained by the rage I read here, and I suppose I've fallen victim to that I oppose more than once. I do think that the posts "To be a modern Republican" and the one dealing with how people who are not from the United States might view this election have a lot of merit, however, and I'm going to come back to them. In part, I think they are valid because they raise, in a somewhat sarcastic and ironic way, some critiques of the Republican view that are useful to consider, even if they are not completely accurate. When critics characterize Gore as Bore, for example, I don't like it and I don't agree with it, but, you know what, if enough people see it that way, there must be something there. Similarly, when so many people are outraged over the banishment of religious discussion in schools or the practice of abortion to terminate unwanted pregnancies, I don't agree with their point of view, but the mere fact that so many people feel that way deserves some attention, even by people like me who don't agree with it. Similarly, when so many Democrats repeatedly point out the hypocrisy of people who decry abortion but won't tolerate any form of sex education other than abstinence in the public schools, maybe their opponents should at least demonstrate that they are listening.