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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (4253)	2/26/2004 7:59:55 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

Who’s voting for John Kerry? On Monday night, President George W. Bush spoke to America’s Republican governors, and for the first time, began to point out the infirmities of the one who likely will be his opponent in November. “The candidates are an interesting group with diverse opinions. For tax cuts, and against them. For NAFTA, and against NAFTA. For the Patriot Act, and against the Patriot Act. In favor of liberating Iraq, and opposed to it. And that’s just one senator from Massachusetts,” Bush said. While Republicans chuckled at Kerry’s hypocrisy, Democrats panicked. They’ll probably need more than just Botox to smooth out their campaign’s troubles. And if Bush’s words interrupted the latest Democrat orgasm, then they better start preparing for the future. Now, if his own hypocrisy isn’t enough (or isn’t mentioned enough) to show the American people what this guy is really full of (in addition to the Botox), we all can rest assured that Bush’s $200 million campaign fund will get the message out clearly. And if it doesn’t get out to you personally, just keep reading my scintillating columns. So, the only chance for Kerry is if the two kinds of people that will vote for him show up in greater numbers than ever before. These two kinds of people are the radical left-wing liberals and the hardcore Democratic voters who would vote even for Joseph Stalin as long as there was a (D) behind his name. On the other side, Bush has three kinds of people that will support him in November: would-be Democrats the president has appealed to, solid Republicans and “moral majority” Republicans. The first group is primarily Hispanic-Americans. At the start of the new year, Bush proposed amnesty-like legislation for Congress that would give temporary citizenship to illegal aliens who come to America to work. This proposal outraged most Americans, as it did me. A Washington Dispatch Daily Poll on Jan. 16 showed that 79 percent of the American people preferred that our borders not be open to Mexican workers and called Bush’s proposal “ridiculous.” One Palm Springs Desert Sun poll taken Jan. 15 and 16 revealed that 96.1 percent of the people did not support Bush’s proposal to offer legal status to illegal workers. Another poll, this one by CNN, found that 93 percent of the American people believe Bush’s proposal will further depress working wages. Although this proposal clearly outraged the majority of Americans — including myself — and will be detrimental to some of America’s cornerstone institutions if passed, it may (again, I say “may”) help win Bush a few Hispanic voters who usually vote Democratic. The next group, the “solid Republicans,” are like the close-minded hardcore Democrats. These are the party loyalists who vote because of letters instead of issues and policies. And lastly and most recently popular, the third group of Bush supporters will be the “moral majority” — faith- and family-valuing Republicans. Several polls have showed that about 86 percent of the American people call themselves Christian. The reason they’re popular lately? Gay marriage. Recently, religious conservatives have become increasingly troubled and disappointed with Bush because of his lack of action on the gay-marriage problem in San Francisco and Massachusetts, among other places. That is no more, however. On Tuesday, Bush courageously raised the dimming torch of American family values, and declared he would support a constitutional amendment preserving marriage as being between one man and one woman. This will energize to nuclear capacity not only born-again and religious conservatives like myself but also the majority of Americans. As The Associated Press reported on Tuesday, “a majority of Americans, sometimes by as much as a 2-1 margin, say they oppose legalizing gay marriage.” Currently, some polls show that a slight majority of Americans are uncomfortable with a change in the Constitution. But as the Washington Post stated, “Opinion polls have found widely varying support for a constitutional amendment depending on the way the question is phrased.” In the end, the American people want to preserve an institution that is the basis of our civilized society, and they will vote for a president who clearly defines his agenda on this issue. You should do the same. More Botox, Mr. Kerry? star.niu.edu