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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (698471)	8/28/2005 9:07:48 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

lol I voted for Jimmy Carter. I think I still have a case of Billy Beer in an out building somewhere. Thought it would be a collectors item one day. rustycans.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (698471)	8/28/2005 10:51:01 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

GZ, you and I have corresponded from time to time, and I have a lot of respect for your analysis despite the the fact we often find ourselves on the opposite side of some issues. The opposite of you, I was a moderate Republican for years. When the dems were in power in the early 1990s I felt the they were unwilling to tie down government spending to match their extravagant pork. I didn't want intrusions into my business or my personal life. I felt tax policy was out of touch...mind you, I felt we needed to expect citizens to "pay as we went" and that might mean paying a reasonable level of tax but the taxes should be spent wisely. I didn't like nationbuilding as a policy. I had (still have) Libertarian leanings...live and let live. Parts of Reagan I liked, parts I didn't....but he did give me some reasons to "think republican". So now what do I have with the Republicans in charge? No fiscal restraint - forget all those claims about starving the beast, etc. They love pork as much or more than the democrats. Deficits.....massive. And irresponsible. This is the only time in our nations' history we have cut taxes during a war. Why? To stimulate the economy? If we had stimulated consumption in Oct. 2001 I could have bought it for a year. Beyond that it is deficit building disaster. My personal liberties and right to privacy? Wow. Remember those guys out in Montana during the Clinton years? The Freemen? They got a lot of publicity and republican sympathy by claiming their right to live their lives as they saw fit were being overrun by the federal government. Now we have the Patriot Act being used above and beyond its original intended purpose...we have Congress interfering, with individual legislation of all things, in a husband and wife's decisions about life and death. We have republicans seemingly buying into one religion's particular line of reasoning on social issues. And that line of reasoning goes right back to the bedroom and what I or others may choose to do in it. Nationbuilding? GWB said he was really against it back in 2000. The republicans opposed Clinton's action in Bosnia and talked and talked about exits strategies, no nationbuilding, etc. Sure, sure, 9-11 changed everything. But it did not mandate the changes that the republicans chose to follow. This is not the republican party I remembered. It sounds a lot like the democratic party I didn't like. Big spending. Big deficits, Huge Federal Government. Invasion of personal liberties....nationbuilding. Bad management. So, I think the country deserves better. I deserve better. I may vote for McCain or Hagel, but I could vote for a demo that actually makes sense. We'll see. In the meantime I am looking for my old fiscally conservative, socially responsive, non-intrusive Republican Party. Let me know if you see it anywhere. Pomp