If you have to make concessions to your liberal friends by de facto bashing of Bush then your support for the war against the war against civilization your just spitting in the wind. You're either with us or with the enemy. That isn't political sloganeering that's reality.
As for wealth redistribution ... socialism sucks. Here, there or anywhere. It's the poison that pees in everyone's rice bowl equally.
I wouldn't attempt to speak for her, but the author of this Sierra Times article is Freeper joanie-f. I know she has major criticisms of Bush's stand on our open border and on his spending, so I suspect that is what she means when she says she's not a fan. I'm pinging this to her so maybe she'll answer herself. ;)