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President Bush is not a true conservative! BEN HODGES

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Faust [OP]

2004-11-11 00:31 | User Profile

President Bush is not a true conservative

BEN HODGES November 10, 2004

Most true conservatives are lamenting the success of George Bush, or at least they should be. Bush is no conservative, folks. Although he may have looked like one compared to the senator from the People’s Republic of Taxachussetes, he really is a hard-core moderate, being so totally inconsistent as to cause widespread confusion regarding his political ideology. By taking a couple of conservative stances on things like marriage, liberals have conclusively labeled him as a hard-core conservative. However, let’s consider a few subjects such as the role of government and how big it should be.

The conservative platform, as stated by people like Ron Paul (R-Texas), says that the government that governs the best governs the least. This means no welfare, no Medicare, no subsidizing, no alphabet soup nonsense (including the IRS) and so on. Basically, there is no government involvement that does not involve the protection of law-abiding citizens and/or destruction of those that would infringe on the rights of those law abiding citizens. However, Bush’s policies generally reflect the opposite of that mindset.

For starters, Bush has spent the most amount of public money since Lyndon B. Johnson, the self-proclaimed liberal, increasing general spending by 22 percent, not including the affairs in Afghanistan and Iraq. And remember, this is a 22 percent increase from Bill Clinton, a big-spending liberal. Bush has enlarged almost every aspect of government, making Clinton’s massive regulation and expansion seem like child’s play.

For example, Bush extended funding to the National Endowment for the Arts by 15 percent, using taxpayer dollars to fund crucifixes submerged in urine. Also, instead of trying to abrogate the welfare system as a consistent conservative would, Bush has tried to include illegal immigrants into getting benefits. He also tried to enlarge Medicare to such an extent that Rep. Paul, an actual conservative, called the proposition “the single largest expansion of the federal welfare state since the Great Society programs of the 1960s.”

Bush has continued to regulate gun restrictions, supporting the Clinton gun ban, as well as further strengthening liberal, tyrannical organizations like the United Nations, going so far as to support a UN standing army. He believes public education to be a fundamental role of government as well, but cannot seem to be able to justify that from the Constitution. Furthermore, oh wait…the list is about five pages long. Welfare, Medicare, education, United Nations, unconstitutional subsidization of private and public industries and a bigger government than that of Bill Clinton—what conservative are YOU talking about?

And a lot of that hundreds of billions of dollars is going to some not so conservative groups…like say Planned Parenthood, or maybe giving $15 billion to fund overseas abortions in Africa and the Caribbean. Even when some religious “conservatives” praised Bush for withholding a miniscule $34 million from UNFPA, a UN abortion service in China, they failed to recognize that he then gave it to USAID, another abortion servicing program. This is complete political manipulation just to get the votes of ignorant conservatives everywhere. Of course, this is to be expected to some extent in politics, but it’s completely inexcusable in a case dealing with the lives of millions of unborn children. How is this conservative?

Then there is the subject that everyone is all up in arms about: unconstitutional government intervention. And while many “conservatives” may blow this off, they must realize that they cannot go along with this while continuing to call themselves conservatives. What kind of conservative would support breaking into private homes and searching without warrants? Or tapping phone lines? Or non-stop 24-hour monitoring of U.S. citizens? This would certainly not be Rep. Paul, or as they call him, Dr. No.

Seriously, folks, there must be thousands of articles available on the Internet from reputable sources about the “Bush Betrayal.” And the facts add up; this man is no conservative. If he is, then the conservative platform has somehow changed over the past four years to include massive government expansion and regulation, gun control, abortion, mass-subsidization and government intervention of every kind. This is not conservative, folks. This is Bush.

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SoCal Jeffersonian

2004-11-11 01:19 | User Profile

Hodges = MASTER OF THE ****ING OBVIOUS