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Originally posted by queedo
Lets all just get votes and look good rather than doing what is right for the country and not being too popular like what Bush is doing right now.
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Bush is unpopular because he's an incumbent Republican, not because of his policies. If Gore was in office right now we would still be in Iraq and Afghanistan -- the only difference is that there would likely be less negative press about it.
As a Republican, however, he has failed miserably to promote the ideals of his party. He caved to Democrats on Education, Pharmaceuticals, and the AWB. He dramatically increased the size of the federal government, and seeks to increase peoples dependence on it. He is humoring the totalitarian far-far-right of his party, but seems to have forgotten any Reagan-esque ideology that his father may have passed down.
It's not a matter of Bush being better than Kerry, it's a matter of Kerry being worse than Bush.