Political Compass

[Aileron]

Well, the reason why moderates liked Bush so much was because its a two party system and he was running against John Kerry. If the democrats would smarten up and start nominating moderates half of their election problems would be solved.

 

 

However, the biggest reason I like Bush is that he presents positive solutions to problems. The democrats seem to be about making republican solutions look bad, and have made themselves critics of government rather than agents of government.

 

 

The best example of this is an editorial about how slow the government's reaction to Katrina was. The author then asked what FEMA would have done if Al Queda planned an attack as hurricane Katrina was striking.

 

It shows that he only can think about last week's problem. Al Queda's attacks take years of work to organize. They would need pinpoint weather information about 6 months in advance in order to pull off that kind of coordination, and I have yet to see a 7-day forcast that holds up. It would only be practically possible if they could read about the situation a week later, travel back in time and coordinate the attack.

 

Government doesn't have that luxery. They have to worry about next week's problem, and that is VERY hard to do.

 

The point is that Bush tries very hard to solve next week's problem. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he doesn't. The democrats on the other had read about a problem after it develops, points their finger at Bush and criticises him for not solving it in advance. While I can't stand for bad decisions, Bush cannot be expected to be a fortune teller. Furthermore, I cannot vote for somebody who only thinks about problems AFTER they occur.

 

Plus, the democrat's political stance is whacko. The thing they USED to stand for was equal rights for minorities and the working man. Now, they stand for giving affirmative action to minorities, and really don't give a !@#$%^&* about the working man. They never were the party for good-old-fashioned rights and values, so the only issue they seem to have a strong stance in is the environment...and even in this issue their desire to listen to radicals rather than practical solutions is deteriorating their stance.

 

Its not that I like Bush that much, I can name a few people who would be better presidents (Conzoliza Rice, Bill Gates, Colon Powell if he ever decided to run, Rudy Gulliani, Donald Trump...). However, his head is in the right place, and since his compe!@#$%^&*ors don't have a clue, I support Bush.

 

(Bill Gates and Donald Trump would be taking a pay cut if they wanted to be president...hence the biggest problem in our political system.)

 

 

2008 will be a very interesting year for the democrats. Maybe when Bush is gone, they will lose their opportunity to hate and finally do some introspection. I'll hope but not bet...in all likelihood they will just hate the next person nominated by the repbulicans.

[»Ducky]

and I have yet to see a 7-day forcast that holds up.

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