I am absolutely flabbergasted, disgusted, and embarrassed by the Republican spending, and I blame Bush for embracing it. I feel like I wasted my vote on him; I'm trying to convince myself to vote libertarian the next time. If Kerry or Gore were spending like this, or being as wasteful and inefficient as Bush has been with the Katrina funds and the Iraq contracts, or reacting to 911 with huge new buerocracies and freedom restrictions, we would be blaming it all on Democratic ineptitude. Why vote for Republicans if we're going to get waste, inefficiency, and special interest favors? Why hasn't Bush led a charge to free consumers from laws that protect real estate agents, car dealers, and the big airlines (for example that law that bans Southwest airlines from using DFW)?
I very much doubt that the Bushies intended to "out" Plame's covert status, and am 100% certain that everyone who has concluded this so far is doing so without any facts, and if proven correct they will be merely lucky to have selected the worst possibility and benefitted from guessing right. However: the hell with 'em. Nominating that mediocre judge, and compounding it with an advocacy based on her "beliefs" and "religious convictions" (which must certainly be irrelevent to a judge's decisions) has been the last straw for me.
I can only fantacize about how the Iraqi war might have turned out had Bush implimented my assumptions of minimization of civilian destruction, zero turture (even of captured tyrants), and exemplary spending. What the hell was that "victory" landing on the aircraft carrier all about? Surely I wasn't the only war supporter who thought that the invasion would be easy, and that the hardest work and most doubtful outcomes would occur after the pre-ordained routing of the Iraqi military. The hell with them all. They have let us down and embarrassed us.
The Republicrats were more effective and accountable when they had to deal with a Democrat White House. Low taxes, smaller gov't, welfare reform, etc. were issues to rally around at the time because the Dems were opposed to all of them the exception of Clinton of course. I'm not even sure he agreed with these issues, but he used them for his own success through triangulation. That is main reason I voted for him the second time, because he was willing to institute those Republican ideals.
Now as Repbublicrats with no one to say "no", they're like the proverbial kids run amok in a candy store. And if the roles were reversed and the Dems were in charge it would be just as bad if not worse.
Voting Libertarian, or any other 3rd/minor party candidate for that matter is pointless. You're simply throwing your vote away.
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I am absolutely flabbergasted, disgusted, and embarrassed by the Republican spending, and I blame Bush for embracing it. I feel like I wasted my vote on him; I'm trying to convince myself to vote libertarian the next time. If Kerry or Gore were spending like this, or being as wasteful and inefficient as Bush has been with the Katrina funds and the Iraq contracts, or reacting to 911 with huge new buerocracies and freedom restrictions, we would be blaming it all on Democratic ineptitude. Why vote for Republicans if we're going to get waste, inefficiency, and special interest favors? Why hasn't Bush led a charge to free consumers from laws that protect real estate agents, car dealers, and the big airlines (for example that law that bans Southwest airlines from using DFW)?
I very much doubt that the Bushies intended to "out" Plame's covert status, and am 100% certain that everyone who has concluded this so far is doing so without any facts, and if proven correct they will be merely lucky to have selected the worst possibility and benefitted from guessing right. However: the hell with 'em. Nominating that mediocre judge, and compounding it with an advocacy based on her "beliefs" and "religious convictions" (which must certainly be irrelevent to a judge's decisions) has been the last straw for me.
I can only fantacize about how the Iraqi war might have turned out had Bush implimented my assumptions of minimization of civilian destruction, zero turture (even of captured tyrants), and exemplary spending. What the hell was that "victory" landing on the aircraft carrier all about? Surely I wasn't the only war supporter who thought that the invasion would be easy, and that the hardest work and most doubtful outcomes would occur after the pre-ordained routing of the Iraqi military. The hell with them all. They have let us down and embarrassed us.
The Republicrats were more effective and accountable when they had to deal with a Democrat White House. Low taxes, smaller gov't, welfare reform, etc. were issues to rally around at the time because the Dems were opposed to all of them the exception of Clinton of course. I'm not even sure he agreed with these issues, but he used them for his own success through triangulation. That is main reason I voted for him the second time, because he was willing to institute those Republican ideals.
Now as Repbublicrats with no one to say "no", they're like the proverbial kids run amok in a candy store. And if the roles were reversed and the Dems were in charge it would be just as bad if not worse.
Voting Libertarian, or any other 3rd/minor party candidate for that matter is pointless. You're simply throwing your vote away.
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