Wednesday, October 20, 2004

•             Warning! Stream-of-Consciousness Post on Politics! Warning!

  So I am completely irritated at the Republican Party nowadays. I have been a faithful Republican voter for a couple of years now, and used to think the "Religious Right" et. al. were great. But lately, I've really started to sour on George Bush, and this has affected my thinking about the party in general. I find the following things upset me nowadays:

  1. The Republican Party no longer is the fiscally conservative party. For years, when I was growing up, the Reps were always showing the Dems as the irresponsible ones. The Reps definitely support traditional views: but in the past, they did a great job of showcasing those traditions as being RESPONSIBLE and not just traditions. But now, the Reps have been spending money faster than the government can print it (and that's only half-joking)!  After, miracle of miracles, a Democratic president (Clinton) actually managed to leave office without spending millions to support feces art or what not, the Reps are now being the irresponsible ones. The Republican party has spent way more than previous administrations, and is just throwing money at ideas instead of putting ideas together to solve problems.

  2. The terrible PR job in Iraq. I know that the government has thousands of poeple who could have planned the aftermath of the invasion in Iraq. But apparently they were all busy elsewhere, because the administration is really being punished by the US body count and lack of coalitional forces. Now, this doesn't have to happen: by my count, the only real members of a coalition who are not accounted for are France, Germany, and Turkey. Russia and China (more on them later) wouldn't cooperate with us anyway. But the Bush administration has done a terrible job of forcing its opposition to "name names" as to who else should be in the coalition. As well, the body count is not a big deal, when you compare it to the chances that millions of Iraqi's will survive and have a chance at a good life. Yet, Bush seems to be unable to give a message about the value of everyone's life being equal. As a man and a Christian, I would be willing to die if it meant that 100's of Iraqi children get schooling, jobs, etc and have an opportunity to practice religion freely. I think the majority of Americans would hold the same view, if it was phrased correctly. It's not!

  3. The Reps fail to adequately look at the entirety of the world situation right now. I think that we will have major issues with China or Russia again before the next 4 years are up. Both are growing, and both will eventually want to grow somewhere where we don't want them to. Yet, the administration is obsessed with terrorism all the while. This is a Dem problem too, don't get me wrong. But now, everything is about terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, and people are writing books about the decline of "nation-states". Countries are not going to go away, folks. I'm more concerned about multi-national corporations acting unethically than I am that some weird, stateless terror network will suddenly control the world. If Al-Queda had any ability at all, they would have slashed us to ribbons by now; but they haven't.

  OK, so that's the end of that. I'm still voting Republican, though, for this simple reason: John Kerry has done NOTHING for 20+ years in the Senate. Nothing. No legislation, no famous speeches, nothing. And Edwards has done even less. How can they even run for president? Don't you have to have SOME ability before you can run for President? SOME accomplishment? Hey, I founded some groups at college; am I eligible?! Anyway, so that's that. Now, if it had been Gore and Lieberman again, I may have actually voted Democratic. Scary, huh? The abortion issue is very important to me, but there are other life-or-death issues, and the bad stewardship/bad planning nature of the Bush administration really bothers me. Some is propoganda; most is real.

  OK, so that's the end of my 15 minutes of typing! Yeah, you don't have to comment on this run-on mess if you don't want to, ha; but I just wanted to type until my fingers fell off about politiiii yeah, that was my right index finger falling off onto the keys, I'm done!!!

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