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quicksteal · 10-26-2004, 04:40 PM

I don't agree with Bush 100%, but the attacks against him are way too vicious for me to go along with them.

Ex. 1: Bush's tax cuts to all taxpayers. The Democrats bash him for giving tax cuts to the rich, despite the fact that most economists say that the tax cuts were good for the economy and made the recession shorter. My problem with the tax cuts is that they did in fact shift more of the tax burden on the middle class. This would be fixable with a marginal adjustment to either raise the taxes on the upper class a little bit, or lower the middle class taxes a little bit. But the Democrats want to kill the economy and take the upper class tax cuts away.

Ex. 2: Bush was wrong about the WMD in Iraq. Although he did not gather the intelligence himself, he is the first man responsible for interpreting it. I admire the fact that he didn't back down from Saddam like many other leaders did, but our rationale for going to war was that he had weapons, and so far that's been incorrect. The Democrats bring this up all the time, that Bush "misled" the American people. It makes my blood boil every time, because Kerry was given the same intelligence, and being on the Senate Intelligence Committee, I would have thought that he might take a good look at it. Instead, he claims that he just went along with the President, and that he was "misled" like the rest of America.

Moderates just don't fit in anymore in America. We've got to pick the side that's closest and hammer away at the other side, hoping that the progress that you want gets passed and nothing else. It's so annoying to hear people spouting Michael Moore's propaganda, but it's just as annoying to hear about Kerry's Swift Boat medals. What am I supposed to do about it? If I could vote -1 times for Kerry, I'd do that, but instead I have to vote 1 time for Bush.

10-26-2004, 04:40 PM	#25 (permalink)
quicksteal Crazy Location: Auburn, AL	I don't agree with Bush 100%, but the attacks against him are way too vicious for me to go along with them. Ex. 1: Bush's tax cuts to all taxpayers. The Democrats bash him for giving tax cuts to the rich, despite the fact that most economists say that the tax cuts were good for the economy and made the recession shorter. My problem with the tax cuts is that they did in fact shift more of the tax burden on the middle class. This would be fixable with a marginal adjustment to either raise the taxes on the upper class a little bit, or lower the middle class taxes a little bit. But the Democrats want to kill the economy and take the upper class tax cuts away. Ex. 2: Bush was wrong about the WMD in Iraq. Although he did not gather the intelligence himself, he is the first man responsible for interpreting it. I admire the fact that he didn't back down from Saddam like many other leaders did, but our rationale for going to war was that he had weapons, and so far that's been incorrect. The Democrats bring this up all the time, that Bush "misled" the American people. It makes my blood boil every time, because Kerry was given the same intelligence, and being on the Senate Intelligence Committee, I would have thought that he might take a good look at it. Instead, he claims that he just went along with the President, and that he was "misled" like the rest of America. Moderates just don't fit in anymore in America. We've got to pick the side that's closest and hammer away at the other side, hoping that the progress that you want gets passed and nothing else. It's so annoying to hear people spouting Michael Moore's propaganda, but it's just as annoying to hear about Kerry's Swift Boat medals. What am I supposed to do about it? If I could vote -1 times for Kerry, I'd do that, but instead I have to vote 1 time for Bush.