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To: Amy J who wrote (208742)	10/26/2004 5:41:12 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573848

>> I understand. How about expressing your thoughts on why you believe Bush is an intellectual, Intellectual? I don't know. Intelligent? Of course. Idiots don't become fighter pilots and don't become Harvard MBAs. Idiots don't take substantial failing businesess and turn them into pots of gold. There has never been one shred of evidence put forth to suggest that Bush is NOT smart. What there has been is some mangling of words. This is not indicative of intellect; and frankly, some of the most brilliant people I've known in my life have done the same sorts of things. You just can't make a judgment about intelligence based on this one attribute. What is it, besides the liberal mantra, that suggests to you Bush is other than intelligent?

To: Amy J who wrote (208742)	10/27/2004 5:27:23 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1573848

amconmag.com Excerpt: But [Judeo]conservatism now encompasses much more than Israel-obsessed intellectuals and policy insiders. The Bush foreign policy also surfs on deep currents within the Christian Right, some of which see unqualified support of Israel as part of a godly plan to bring about Armageddon and the future kingdom of Christ. These two strands of Jewish and Christian extremism build on one another in the Bush presidency—and President Bush has given not the slightest indication he would restrain either in a second term. With Colin Powell’s departure from the State Department looming, Bush is more than ever the “[Judeo]conian candidate.” The only way Americans will have a presidency in which [Judeo]conservatives and the Christian Armageddon set are not holding the reins of power is if Kerry is elected. If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward. But the most important battles will take place within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. A Bush defeat will ignite a huge soul-searching within the rank-and-file of Republicandom: a quest to find out how and where the Bush presidency went wrong. And it is then that more traditional conservatives will have an audience to argue for a conservatism informed by the lessons of history, based in prudence and a sense of continuity with the American past—and to make that case without a powerful White House pulling in the opposite direction. George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism. His international policies have been based on the hopelessly naïve belief that foreign peoples are eager to be liberated by American armies—a notion more grounded in Leon Trotsky’s concept of global revolution than any sort of conservative statecraft. His immigration policies—temporarily put on hold while he runs for re-election—are just as extreme. A re-elected President Bush would be committed to bringing in millions of low-wage immigrants to do jobs Americans “won’t do.” This election is all about George W. Bush, and those issues are enough to render him unworthy of any conservative support. _____________________________