Bush is not a REAL Republican

[madison]

Bush is not a REAL Republican
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We all have friends and relatives whose rationale for voting Republican makes no sense at all, but when we are with them we tiptoe around that fact just to keep peace.

They say they believe in small government but are about to vote for George W. Bush who has exploded the size of government.

They say they believe in buying only what they can afford and then paying their bills on time. But they are going to vote for the "Republican" George W. Bush who came into office at a time when our federal government (thanks to Bill Clinton) was running annual SURPLUSES of $500 billion dollars and, in three years, turned that into running annual DEFICITS of $500 billion dollars. That means Bush is SPENDING $500 billion more a year than he is taking in as revenue. Bush has INCREASED the national debt by One and A Half Trillion dollars in just three years – the worst record of ANY president in the history of our country.

Our Republican friends and relatives say they want government OUT OF our lives but are about to vote for Bush who, through legislation he has designed, has created the MOST intrusive government America has EVER had. Even during two world wars and the Cold War, we NEVER had a president put laws in place that provided for as much government snooping into our private lives and as much government control OVER our private lives. Thanks to Bush, the federal government can now snoop into our financial records and activities, our purchasing habits, our medical records and our library records; the government can now listen in on clients' conversations with their lawyers, and the government can – without a warrant – enter your home, look into every nook and cranny, read everything on your computer or in any of your files and records, and check on your lifestyle.

Does THAT sound like a less intrusive government to our "Republican" friends and relatives?

You see, our friends and relatives don't even realize the people currently running our country are not really Republicans anymore. Have you noticed some of the ones with the most power in our government -- Tom DeLay and John Ashcroft -- have not been speaking at the Republican Convention? They were kept under wraps and out of sight because they would scare off people who still think this Republican Party bears any resemblance to the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president -- about whom you will not hear much talk from these "Republicans" because they don't want to scare off the racists.

This modern-day Republican Party bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of Teddy Roosevelt who sought to protect America's Great National Parks by putting them off limits to commercial ownership and exploitation; Bush just gave away 60 million acres of wild national forests to the mining, logging and drilling interests that contribute to his political campaigns.

This is not the Republican Party of President Dwight David Eisenhower, the most famous and loved General of World War II, who, in his last address to the nation, warned against the very "military-industrial complex" that is currently ballooning and blossoming under Bush, because Bush's campaign money comes from the military-industrial complex and his friends and family profit from the military-industrial complex.

Many of Bush's draconian laws and regulations even overturn Constitutional protections and would never survive a Constitutional challenge if tested at the U.S. Supreme Court. The few laws that have gone to the Supreme Court have been slapped down, which is amazing considering that the Republicans are in the majority on the current Supreme Court, but I guess even they could not stomach what Bush is doing. Noteworthy though, the two justices who seem to love these unconstitutional laws, Scalia and Thomas, are the very ones Bush admires the most, so we can count on it that he will fill any vacancies on the Supreme Court with similar-thinking justices – who will be lusting to take away our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights, freedoms and liberties.

But our "Republican" friends and relatives will vote for Bush anyway, because they either don't know all of this or they just can't kick the habit – and cannot face the truth that Bush IS NO REPUBLICAN; he is a right-wing EXTREMIST, the likes of which we have never seen in an American president (but are familiar features of totalitarian regimes).

Real Republicans, the ones who respect Presidents Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower, cannot in good faith vote for George W. Bush; he bears NO resemblance to those REAL Republicans.

A vote for this Bush is spitting in the face of those great Republican presidents of the past.

[seabeyond]

1. nor is he a real christian or

a real military man or a real business man or a real oilman, not a real texan either, lol lol look how easy this is, always is......

[whistle]

2. Well, republicans put him where he is so they should take....

...responsibility. I notice that the list of real republicans did not include Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush the senior either. Maybe there is a serious problem with the Grand Old Party.