My humble opinion-
Personally I am not affiliated with any particular party but tend to lean Libertarian, as they seem to be the only ones who take the U.S. Constitution seriously.
Both Republicans and Democrats have serious issues of implementing a socialist state: Let’s take from the people who have….and give it to the have-nots. Why? Because the have-nots really need it. Whose doctrine was it?
“From Each According To His Abilities, To Each According To His Needs”.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
And yet Congress recently passed such laws.
So, given the Libertarians aren’t going to hold the Congress and Presidency anytime soon, I am forced to choose between the two “evils”.
Think about it…Since Democrats base their ENTIRE platform around socialism, (And Kerry only on his war service)- I grudgingly have to vote Republican. I don’t go for the irrational argument “Anyone but Bush”, as this could put anyone in the driver seat…to the voiced pleasure of Islamic terrorists.
While Kerry continues to bark about the sagging economy, the net loss of jobs, the economy in the United States continues to boom. The unemployment rate is currently lower than the average rate of the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's. That's also lower than it was when Bill Clinton was re-elected over Bob Dole in 1996.
Liberal bias?
Funny...the media never found sagging employment with Democrats, yet they're talking about 5.4% not being very low for Republicans.
New York's unemployment is back at it's pre-9/11 levels, at 6.7%. That's down from July's 7.5% and 8.4% last year. Home ownership is at record levels too. What else is it going to take for the media to admit the economy is booming?
*Unemployment is lower than average of the last 30 years
*Unemployment in NY is back to pre-911 levels
*Home ownership at record levels
*US household wealth is at record levels
Hurricane Ivan is caused a production drop in oil from offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico which may result in a price increase for gasoline. Rest assured, Kerry and the press will blame Bush for the price increases.
Truly I am not a Republican....at least not in today's Republican platform.
I became politically aware during the Regan election and I was scared by the Democrats that Ray-Gun (As they called him) purposely desired to cause WWIII and kill everyone. After Regans victory I learned that the Dem's had fooled me and I see them doing the same to others every election.
Every time they campaign on the same thing...Republicans want to throw your grandmother down the steps (Remember that Flash! movie on the Dem's website last election?), starve your children, make you poor, hate colored people etc. The scare tactics are always the same & predictable.
Kerry has no foundation…he is as shifty as the sand on the beach. He votes to send the military into action then votes against funding them?
He tells an ecology group that the doesn't own an SUV then stumps in detrouit bragging about his SUVs? Well its not him who ownes them but his family?
The guy stands on nothing....except what's currently politically convenient.
At least Bush has a foundation to stand on. I disagree with so many things Bush is doing…but at least I know where he stands.
Iraq:
How anyone can't see Saddam's Iraq as a serious U.S. security threat is beyond me.
WMD:
Right up to invasion the UN said they had them, intelligence said they had them..Even Kerry said he likely had them. Where did they go? We know he used them before. Dumped in the desert in secret? Why do it in secret? Were they shipped to another country? They already found enough WMD in Iraq to easily kill 100,000 people.
Even Russia's president reported before DSII that Saddam's Iraq is preparing for an attack here on the U.S. soil. There was Saddam, an evil twisted ruler bent on hatred for the U.S. for booting him from Kuwait among other things.
Evil ? Twisted? He even had custom meat grinders which victimes were lowered head first while family members were forced to witness. Public Education.
What if Putin was right...along with the rest of the world that Saddam had the weapons? (We all knew the WMD was "contained" by 18 UN resolutions)
Should the president go with France and Germany and wait longer? How long?
What if major catastrophy happened to our cities and we were warned, but did nothing...Who's fault would that be?
Today I know my family is safer and that's what counts for me.
The + 1000 service men who have died in Iraq are heros. Liberators.
If the same press could travel back about 60 years ago to the defeat of Japan, only a couple of years past victory I'm sure the headlines would be:
"Another 16 U.S. service men were killed outside of Tokyo, shot in the apparent quagmire in the Pacific war by insurgents"
I have a 1944 copy of the
Atlanta Journal Constitution- wartime issue.
The difference in reporting back then and today is amazing and shocking.