[Burkeman1]

While much of the criticism of Bush is valid on foreign policy and domestic policy from a conservative point of view- reality is that no one is ever going to get everything or even a majority of what they want from any politician. Idealistic 18 years olds may vote for ideological purity but adults don't vote that way. I am one of the biggest critics of the Bush administration on this board from everything to the war in Iraq to his less than impressive support of conservative judicial nominees. But I am not about to give up the Federal government to a straighforward socialist who will appoint far left wing judges to the USSC. And I would rather have a foreign policy I disagree with run by people who at least are genrally moral.

Granted, if the GOP loses the Presidency- there will be little reason to vote for them in the future.

[meenie]

Everybody has to make their own decision on how they handle the socialist agenda. There is one problem I have with the concern for security in the years ahead. The consensus seems to be that a strong defense does not rely on a strong economy to support that strong security. I fail to see how there is a disconnect between the two. We have to have the ability to support our military, if not, we can go to the Soviet model where the country goes down the creek and the military collapses. Guns and butter did not work in the Lyndon Johnson era and it will not work in this era.