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

To: JDN who wrote (119321)	12/24/2000 4:02:01 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769667

JDN, I understand what you're saying. And uniting people is always preferable to dividing them. However, I would say there is a difference between uniting people, and uniting politicians. Bush should focus on uniting the American people in his compassionate conservative message centered on "responsiblity". And not overly focus on uniting party members. In the arena of ideas there lies strong differences of opinion. Those differences, whether real or imagined as a tool for political power, exist. I don't believe people such as Tom Dashle (Republicans want to starve the elderly) or Richard Gephard (Republicans want to starve children) will ever accept reasonable consensus regarding a compassionate conservative government. Politics to them is a religious war. And a war in which Republicans are seen as the devil himself. Bush has won the Presidential election and his message was clear. When he is sworn in, it's time to move down the path he described over and over during the election cycle. "I’ve described myself as a compassionate conservative, because I am convinced a conservative philosophy is a compassionate philosophy that frees individuals to achieve their highest potential. It is conservative to cut taxes and compassionate to give people more money to spend. It is conservative to insist upon local control of schools and high standards and results; it is compassionate to make sure every child learns to read and no one is left behind. It is conservative to reform the welfare system by insisting on work; it’s compassionate to free people from dependency on government. It is conservative to reform the juvenile justice code to insist on consequences for bad behavior; it is compassionate to recognize that discipline and love go hand in hand." George W. Bush