Saturday, July 24, 2004
Anyone reading this blog with a hint of understanding, or even without it, can hardly fail to come to the conclusion that I support President Bush's re-election pretty strongly. Even in 2000, suffering under eight years of the Felon inhabiting our beautiful White House, I was not this convinced that Bush is the man to lead this country. Now it comes time to tell you why.
First of all, Bush is a man of conviction. He still stands where he did four years ago and for all the press' continued attempts to make some slight withdrawal into a retraction he does not back down. He promised to push through tax cuts for the middle class and he has, repeatedly. He promised to spend more on education and he did. He promised to reform social security and he has. He promised to support a marriage protection amendment and he did. He promised to fight the abortion rights crowd and he has done his best to this day. He promised that our military would be used "to fight and win wars" and not as lackeys to run errands for the U.N. and indeed they have been so used. He promised that is Saddam Hussein continued to pose a threat to the US he would "take him out" and in the days following 9/11 he vowed to hunt down the terrorists into whatever nation they fled. And he has done all this and more. Most politicians lie and do whatever they can to gain political advantage. Bush does not. Whether he's right or wrong at the end of the day, the man does not lie to you. His daughters said in an online chat yesterday (I know because I was involved in this chat) that if he promised to come to their soccer games he was always there, regardless of what else.
We can't have anyone else. For years we have been satisfied with politicians who will say anything to get elected and then bend with the political winds, although in the long run it doesn't help. Bush I did that and he was defeated at the polls by a real tax-hiker. Bush II is a different sort of man, however, a real man. The values he espouses are the values of America, if not of Hollywood (the real mainstream according to John Kerry). He is also a determined leader who is not afraid to call a fig a fig. Too many times I have heard the complaint, "But it's too simplistic to call Muslim terrorists evil and ourselves good." Such triping merely blurs the lines and certainly would have led to US defeat in either World War just like it did in Vietnam. Osama Bin Laden is every bit as evil as Hitler, as is Saddam Hussein. But you'll never catch the left-wing press suggesting that perhaps with a little understanding Hitler could have been a very fine fellow. No, instead no imprecation is too vile for him. Rightly so. But what distinguishes Hitler from Bin Laden or Hussein? Only an anti-American sentiment that makes the press willing to call everything evil, except of course evil. We lived like that through all of the 90s, surrendering and retreating, and we did not lose fewer people. At least the same number of Americans died in terror attacks from 1992 to 2001 as have died in Iraq. We cannot go back to retreating before evil and letting it run the world. We must stand and fight. Only under Bush will we do that. Under Kerry, evil will again prevail. That is why I believe that Bush must win this election and why I have pledged to help as much as I can through the time that is left.
First of all, Bush is a man of conviction. He still stands where he did four years ago and for all the press' continued attempts to make some slight withdrawal into a retraction he does not back down. He promised to push through tax cuts for the middle class and he has, repeatedly. He promised to spend more on education and he did. He promised to reform social security and he has. He promised to support a marriage protection amendment and he did. He promised to fight the abortion rights crowd and he has done his best to this day. He promised that our military would be used "to fight and win wars" and not as lackeys to run errands for the U.N. and indeed they have been so used. He promised that is Saddam Hussein continued to pose a threat to the US he would "take him out" and in the days following 9/11 he vowed to hunt down the terrorists into whatever nation they fled. And he has done all this and more. Most politicians lie and do whatever they can to gain political advantage. Bush does not. Whether he's right or wrong at the end of the day, the man does not lie to you. His daughters said in an online chat yesterday (I know because I was involved in this chat) that if he promised to come to their soccer games he was always there, regardless of what else.
We can't have anyone else. For years we have been satisfied with politicians who will say anything to get elected and then bend with the political winds, although in the long run it doesn't help. Bush I did that and he was defeated at the polls by a real tax-hiker. Bush II is a different sort of man, however, a real man. The values he espouses are the values of America, if not of Hollywood (the real mainstream according to John Kerry). He is also a determined leader who is not afraid to call a fig a fig. Too many times I have heard the complaint, "But it's too simplistic to call Muslim terrorists evil and ourselves good." Such triping merely blurs the lines and certainly would have led to US defeat in either World War just like it did in Vietnam. Osama Bin Laden is every bit as evil as Hitler, as is Saddam Hussein. But you'll never catch the left-wing press suggesting that perhaps with a little understanding Hitler could have been a very fine fellow. No, instead no imprecation is too vile for him. Rightly so. But what distinguishes Hitler from Bin Laden or Hussein? Only an anti-American sentiment that makes the press willing to call everything evil, except of course evil. We lived like that through all of the 90s, surrendering and retreating, and we did not lose fewer people. At least the same number of Americans died in terror attacks from 1992 to 2001 as have died in Iraq. We cannot go back to retreating before evil and letting it run the world. We must stand and fight. Only under Bush will we do that. Under Kerry, evil will again prevail. That is why I believe that Bush must win this election and why I have pledged to help as much as I can through the time that is left.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 6:29 PM 
