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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (7526)	3/15/2004 9:02:20 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Probably much of the same. But I think he would be slower to go to war, and the Congress would be slower, too, so I wouldn't see any significant new preemptive strikes. He did a really find job with Libya, and if we're lucky would be able to get concessions out of N. Korea, too. If Cheney is dropped from the ticket, it would be instructive to see who Bush would get to replace him. Economically, I don't see his policies as doing that much damage -- I think his problem economically is that he hasn't reacted to some fairly significant macro economic trends, but I don't see any major new problems emerging, though one never knows. Neither he nor Kerry will deal with Social Security, so that's a trade off. One place I do like Bush is his supreme court nominations. I like appointing conservatives to the court. They tend to get more liberal the longer they stay, so if you start with a conservative you're likely to wind up with a moderate, but if you start with a normal liberal you're likely to wind up with a flaming liberal. Whatever you think of Roe v. Wade on policy grounds, on legal grounds it was a piece of garbage. We don't need our Supreme Court going the way of the Mass. Supreme Court and finding a whole new set of rights in the constitution.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (7526)	3/15/2004 9:23:29 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

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