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Why I'm Voting for George W. Bush on Nov. 2, 2004
In no particular order:
1. Abortion. Bush is pro-life, and willing to do something about it. He puts his money where his mouth is on this issue, unlike Kerry's lukewarm "I'm Catholic, and personally opposed, but..." He can take his personally-opposed butt back to Massachusetts.
2. Gun control. Kerry never met a gun-control law he didn't like. Bush believes that guns are not a danger in the hands of law-abiding citizens. As the spouse of a concealed-carry permit holder, I agree with that. Bush wants to take guns away from people who misuse them, and put those people in jail where they belong--and leave the rest of us alone. Kerry thinks that guns are the problem, not criminals.
3. Bush is a man of faith. He's doesn't hide it, and I identify with that, and like it quite a bit. He is who he is, he's comfortable in his own skin, and I think he's one of the good guys.
4. Security. Bush won't wait to get a permission slip from France if he decides that our interests are being messed with. He actually put some teeth in UN Resolution 1441, when most of the rest of the world leaders were sitting on their hands angsting about whether to do anything about Saddam's blatant and flagrant flouting of the rules he agreed to the first time we kicked his ass. The world is a better and safer place with that man behind bars, not giving $25,000 to the families of homicide bombers. The worldwide consensus was that Saddam was just a year or two away from having nuclear weapons, and that he had WMD's (that consensus including, I might add, Kerry himself--and the French, and the Germans, and the Russians). Kerry thinks that terrorism is a law-enforcement matter, but the widely-supported bi-partisan 9/11 Commission said that military action is more effective, and that pre-emptive action is required to snuff them out. Which brings us to...
5. Israel. I trust Bush to be on their side when they're being attacked. Kerry? Not so much. After all, the last Democrat in the White House invited the terrorist Yassir Arafat in more than any other world leader. Kerry puts all his eggs in the UN basket, which is one of the biggest bastions of anti-Semitism in the world. Phooey on that. If the Palestinians would quit blowing up buses filled with innocent civilians, then maybe Israel would stop actively pursuing the leaders of Hamas. There is a moral difference between going after leaders of terrorist groups and randomly slaughtering civilians.
6. Kerry called my Dad a war criminal when he testified before Congress that "everyone" who served in Viet Nam was one. My Dad, who is my hero and one of the finest men I know, served two tours in Viet Nam, not any paltry four and a half months. I'm pretty sure he didn't shoot any unarmed people in the back or claim a Purple Heart for rice imbedded in his rear end, too. Screw you very much, Senator Kerry.
7. Health Care. Bush doesn't think that the government is the answer for everyone's ills. I would take it a step farther and say that government makes it worse. I don't agree with all the President's positions on health care, but he's a lot closer to what I think than Mr. Let's Let The Government Solve It. IMO, medical costs would be drastically reduced by having insurance for catastrophic care only, and everything else paid for out-of-pocket, with a safety net for people who couldn't afford vaccines for their kids and such. The third-party payer system we have in place right now is a prime reason why health care costs have gone through the roof--along with John Edwards and his ilk suing doctors and hospitals.
8. Education. Throwing money at education does not work. In fact, if you look at the numbers, there's an inverse relationship between the amount of money spent and student performance. Competition, and threatening to withhold funding, seems to work better. When Florida enacted standards, and then said "We're enforcing this by allowing parents in districts that don't perform up to these standards in three years to take their kids and money elsewhere"...guess what happened? Every school district in Florida came up to the standard. Imagine that. Kerry is a Democrat, thus beholden to teachers' unions, and all they want is more money. This has failed every time it's been tried. So they say, "Well, it's not enough." When will it be enough? There's a reason (actually a myriad of reasons) that Da Boy is going to be home-schooled.
9. The Environment. Our dependence on foreign sources of oil is bad. Drilling in ANWR is a good start. However, drilling more doesn't do any good if we can't refine the stuff, and every time we try to open up a new refinery, the environmentalist wackos go bananas. We have quite enough environmental regulation, thankyouverymuch. The Kyoto Accords won't have any better effect on the environment than what we're already doing, and will be a money pit in the bargain. We have some of the cleanest air in the world. Punishing us because we're rich and efficient is unfair.
10. Gay Marriage. Bush supports the Marriage Amendment to the Constitution. I do too. I've ranted about this before, so I won't go into it again.
11. The Economy. 9/11 gave us a terrible thump in our pocketbooks, in an economy that was in a recession already. Bush believes (along with me) that cutting taxes is a good way to jump-start it. Bush believes that giving people a take-home-pay raise--which is what a tax cut is--is a way of putting more in our pockets. Of course, Kerry thought that what the tax cuts gave us was a "drop in the bucket" (even though when gasoline prices go up about the same amount as we got in our tax cuts, that's outrageous and we should *do something!* Thought that was just a drop in the bucket, Mr. Kerry?) Kerry thinks that "the rich" need to pay even more than they already are. The "poor" had a 33% reduction in their tax rate (from 15% down to 10%), while "the rich" got a less than 6% decrease in their rate (from 39% to 37%). Most Americans agree that taxes shouldn't exceed about 25%, and Kerry thinks that someone with a small business should pay even more than they already are? Small business is the engine that runs the economy, and penalizing small business owners for making money seems counter-productive.
12. The Supreme Court. Here's a radical idea: How about we put people on the Court that believe that the words mean what they say, and don't find "emanations from the penumbra," and don't write law to support their own biases *cough*RoeVsWade*cough*? If the Constitution is a "living document," then it means whatever the fad of the day is, and it's Less Than Law, and we might as well use it as toilet paper. We don't need Justices that look at the laws of other countries to determine what the Constitution of the United States says--or should have said. Kerry has a pro-abortion litmus test for the Supreme Court. What other litmus test might he have? Bush has no such litmus test, and will appoint people who understand what the (very limited) role of judges should be. Bush wants strict constructionists, and Kerry wants activists.
In conclusion, I think Kerry and Edwards are full of crap. When my Johns are full of crap, I flush them. Vote Bush/Cheney and Flush the Johns in ‘04.
And yes, I've turned the comments off. I really don't want a kerfuffle, and I don't want to argue.
icolleen, found on republicons. Three more days until we vote. Three more months until we know who won. LOLWhy I'm Voting for George W. Bush on Nov. 2, 2004
In no particular order:
1. Abortion. Bush is pro-life, and willing to do something about it. He puts his money where his mouth is on this issue, unlike Kerry's lukewarm "I'm Catholic, and personally opposed, but..." He can take his personally-opposed butt back to Massachusetts.
2. Gun control. Kerry never met a gun-control law he didn't like. Bush believes that guns are not a danger in the hands of law-abiding citizens. As the spouse of a concealed-carry permit holder, I agree with that. Bush wants to take guns away from people who misuse them, and put those people in jail where they belong--and leave the rest of us alone. Kerry thinks that guns are the problem, not criminals.
3. Bush is a man of faith. He's doesn't hide it, and I identify with that, and like it quite a bit. He is who he is, he's comfortable in his own skin, and I think he's one of the good guys.
4. Security. Bush won't wait to get a permission slip from France if he decides that our interests are being messed with. He actually put some teeth in UN Resolution 1441, when most of the rest of the world leaders were sitting on their hands angsting about whether to do anything about Saddam's blatant and flagrant flouting of the rules he agreed to the first time we kicked his ass. The world is a better and safer place with that man behind bars, not giving $25,000 to the families of homicide bombers. The worldwide consensus was that Saddam was just a year or two away from having nuclear weapons, and that he had WMD's (that consensus including, I might add, Kerry himself--and the French, and the Germans, and the Russians). Kerry thinks that terrorism is a law-enforcement matter, but the widely-supported bi-partisan 9/11 Commission said that military action is more effective, and that pre-emptive action is required to snuff them out. Which brings us to...
5. Israel. I trust Bush to be on their side when they're being attacked. Kerry? Not so much. After all, the last Democrat in the White House invited the terrorist Yassir Arafat in more than any other world leader. Kerry puts all his eggs in the UN basket, which is one of the biggest bastions of anti-Semitism in the world. Phooey on that. If the Palestinians would quit blowing up buses filled with innocent civilians, then maybe Israel would stop actively pursuing the leaders of Hamas. There is a moral difference between going after leaders of terrorist groups and randomly slaughtering civilians.
6. Kerry called my Dad a war criminal when he testified before Congress that "everyone" who served in Viet Nam was one. My Dad, who is my hero and one of the finest men I know, served two tours in Viet Nam, not any paltry four and a half months. I'm pretty sure he didn't shoot any unarmed people in the back or claim a Purple Heart for rice imbedded in his rear end, too. Screw you very much, Senator Kerry.
7. Health Care. Bush doesn't think that the government is the answer for everyone's ills. I would take it a step farther and say that government makes it worse. I don't agree with all the President's positions on health care, but he's a lot closer to what I think than Mr. Let's Let The Government Solve It. IMO, medical costs would be drastically reduced by having insurance for catastrophic care only, and everything else paid for out-of-pocket, with a safety net for people who couldn't afford vaccines for their kids and such. The third-party payer system we have in place right now is a prime reason why health care costs have gone through the roof--along with John Edwards and his ilk suing doctors and hospitals.
8. Education. Throwing money at education does not work. In fact, if you look at the numbers, there's an inverse relationship between the amount of money spent and student performance. Competition, and threatening to withhold funding, seems to work better. When Florida enacted standards, and then said "We're enforcing this by allowing parents in districts that don't perform up to these standards in three years to take their kids and money elsewhere"...guess what happened? Every school district in Florida came up to the standard. Imagine that. Kerry is a Democrat, thus beholden to teachers' unions, and all they want is more money. This has failed every time it's been tried. So they say, "Well, it's not enough." When will it be enough? There's a reason (actually a myriad of reasons) that Da Boy is going to be home-schooled.
9. The Environment. Our dependence on foreign sources of oil is bad. Drilling in ANWR is a good start. However, drilling more doesn't do any good if we can't refine the stuff, and every time we try to open up a new refinery, the environmentalist wackos go bananas. We have quite enough environmental regulation, thankyouverymuch. The Kyoto Accords won't have any better effect on the environment than what we're already doing, and will be a money pit in the bargain. We have some of the cleanest air in the world. Punishing us because we're rich and efficient is unfair.
10. Gay Marriage. Bush supports the Marriage Amendment to the Constitution. I do too. I've ranted about this before, so I won't go into it again.
11. The Economy. 9/11 gave us a terrible thump in our pocketbooks, in an economy that was in a recession already. Bush believes (along with me) that cutting taxes is a good way to jump-start it. Bush believes that giving people a take-home-pay raise--which is what a tax cut is--is a way of putting more in our pockets. Of course, Kerry thought that what the tax cuts gave us was a "drop in the bucket" (even though when gasoline prices go up about the same amount as we got in our tax cuts, that's outrageous and we should *do something!* Thought that was just a drop in the bucket, Mr. Kerry?) Kerry thinks that "the rich" need to pay even more than they already are. The "poor" had a 33% reduction in their tax rate (from 15% down to 10%), while "the rich" got a less than 6% decrease in their rate (from 39% to 37%). Most Americans agree that taxes shouldn't exceed about 25%, and Kerry thinks that someone with a small business should pay even more than they already are? Small business is the engine that runs the economy, and penalizing small business owners for making money seems counter-productive.
12. The Supreme Court. Here's a radical idea: How about we put people on the Court that believe that the words mean what they say, and don't find "emanations from the penumbra," and don't write law to support their own biases *cough*RoeVsWade*cough*? If the Constitution is a "living document," then it means whatever the fad of the day is, and it's Less Than Law, and we might as well use it as toilet paper. We don't need Justices that look at the laws of other countries to determine what the Constitution of the United States says--or should have said. Kerry has a pro-abortion litmus test for the Supreme Court. What other litmus test might he have? Bush has no such litmus test, and will appoint people who understand what the (very limited) role of judges should be. Bush wants strict constructionists, and Kerry wants activists.
In conclusion, I think Kerry and Edwards are full of crap. When my Johns are full of crap, I flush them. Vote Bush/Cheney and Flush the Johns in ‘04.
And yes, I've turned the comments off. I really don't want a kerfuffle, and I don't want to argue.
