Ten Reasons To Vote For Bush
By James Bowden (09/21/04)
The ten reasons to vote for President George W. Bush weigh more than the ten reasons for voting against Sen. John F. Kerry (see my op ed: Ten Reasons to Vote Against Kerry). Of course, the sum of all twenty reasons is your vote to preserve and protect our Republic. This is the most important election in our lifetime, except every election from 2000 on will be the ‘most important’ until the second American Civil War (ACW II) is resolved.
The strategic pause from the end of WW III (Cold War) in 1991 to our Pearl Harbor for WW IV (The Global War on Islamist Terrorism) on 9-11-2001 is over. Serious grown ups, even when they make major mistakes, must run the Executive Branch, not the soft, silly Liberals who will hesitate, vacillate, and tempt more attacks with weakness.
The President is the key leader based on his character, capabilities, worldview and courage. George Bush is the better choice for President of the United States. He has been tested and tried and found to be true.
George W. Bush doesn’t have Winston Churchill’s strategic vision, but when faced with an epic choice, Bush saw WW IV with Churchill’s clarity. George W. Bush doesn’t have Abraham Lincoln’s inner iron core, but when hit with the worst attack on America, Bush acted with Lincoln’s purpose.
1. Right on WW IV. Big mistakes were made in this Iraq War by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Ambassador Bremer. More mistakes will be made. Bush is wrong to hype expectations of his Wilsonian wishful thinking that Iraq is going to become a Constitutional democracy and have the rule of law by 2005. Yet, Bush understands we are in a World War and it is better to fight it in Iraq than in America. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein made America safer – even with civil war in Iraq.
2. Partial-Birth Abortion. Bush signed the law banning this barbaric infanticide. Bush will fight the Liberal judges who overturned the law to the Supreme Court.
3. The U.S. Supreme Court. There is a 50-50 chance that Bush will appoint pro-life, strict construction, Constitutionalist Supreme Court judges. If he goes wobbly and nominates Henry Gonzales for his ethnicity more than his values, the Republican Party will be split in two when Sen. Hillary Clinton runs in 08. Half a chance for just justices is better than none.
4. Taxes. Bush, graduate of Harvard Business School (side bar: exactly how many stupid people do they graduate each year?), understands capitalism. Capitalism beats Socialism, including the parasitic Socialism promoted by Democrats. Taxes kill jobs. The Bush Tax cuts, even – pretend - if they were ONLY for the rich, create jobs, widespread wealth and more tax revenues. Every American family gets a tax cut with Bush.
5. Family and Marriage. Bush supports the Constitutional Amendment to defend marriage for man and woman. Anything less threatens the family. Only an Amendment stops priest-king judges from making up law. If homosexual marriage becomes law Christian speech, like saying homosexuality is sin, will be persecuted as a hate crime.
6. Social Security. Bush will create an ownership society with personal investment in our own retirement. Today’s Seniors keep the promises made. Tomorrow’s Seniors will get a better deal than today’s 1.9% return. The Ponzi Scheme will be fixed so the Baby Boom generation doesn’t break it.
7. Illegal Immigration. Bush has four more years to do a gut check. Elements in Bush’s Party might convince him of the folly his pandering weakness. Maybe.
8. Conservative Enough. After a feeding frenzy of new spending, this year’s budget is a one percent increase – only – in non-defense discretionary spending. Good Federal judges are being nominated, even if the Republican Senators are too timid to get force an up or down vote.
9. Trust. Bush is an honorable man.
10. Good Man. Bush repented and recanted his youthful failings and wrongs. He has lived uprightly for many years. He is a faithful husband of one wife and good, loving father.
Electing George W. Bush to a second term depends on three things: turn out, turn out, and turn out. Conservatives need to vote for the sanctity of life and marriage. Libertarians should vote for tax cuts, saving Social Security and Medicare in an individual ownership society. Liberals might vote as one issue liberals, like Ex-NYC Mayor Koch and others, who chose our National Security in WW IV.
Time to turn out soon.
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