So you noticed the subtlety I used to avoid Evie's guide lines for this discussion. I don't want to hear about party or how awful Bush is. I am curious what characteristics Kerry possesses that would lead you to vote for him to become the next President of the United States. Kerry's credentials and appeal, rightly is a separate issue from Bush's flaws. It's just that the hypocrisy and bald-faced cynicism shown by the so called "small government" party, gobsmacke's the mind!
I'm continuously appalled by all the political pay-offs and cow-towing Republicans give to their simple-minded, single-issue, bloc-voting contributors. It's fundamental to the Christian Right, for instance, that the UN is THE "World Government" prophesied in Revelations, and therefor the work of the Devil and to be avoided at all costs. At the least, all appearances of cooperation with the UN.
More and more. On and on and on... Amen.
It's astonishing to me that so many can so easily be turned away from their own best self-interest, and that of the nation, the next generation and the world by pure verbage!
Real Republicans are open to discussion item by item, and true to their belief in limited government. These NeoCon's will "sounds-like-fuzzy-math-to-me" all honest debate to death. CUT SOMETHING! NAME IT! COME OUT INTO THE LIGHT! The cynicism of choking government programs by running up the debt instead of talking about the merits of each, is sleazy cheating and lying. Pushing one class higher by taking the nation lower is unworthy of us. We can do better.
ABB! It's important. (and here's hoping Kerry isn't The Devil)