[GunsareOK]

His fiscal policies (an Education Bill that panders to NEA teachers who won't vote for him anyway and the drug expansion of medicaid), his failure to control the southern border, and his signing of "campaign finance reform" are my main gripes as well as his reluctant arming of the pilots.

[LLBeet]

Were Bush omniscient and omnipotent, I would be very disappointed in him. But since he is neither, I would vote for him rather than see our country dragged down to become a second-rate socialist nation at the hands of the Democrats. We are living in dangerous times, with enemies from both the outside and within our borders. We do not have the luxury of looking for a 100% pure conservative President. Life, and politics specially, is full of compromises, and as long as we can achieve most of our main goals, such as preserving freedom, growing the economy, and defeating fanatical terrorists, we should support Bush and his Administration. The thought of a Dean or Clark as our President is just too ghastly for me.

[SunStar]

His fiscal policies (an Education Bill that panders to NEA teachers who won't vote for him anyway and the drug expansion of medicaid), his failure to control the southern border, and his signing of "campaign finance reform" are my main gripes as well as his reluctant arming of the pilots.

I agree. However, the policies you listed were clearly espoused during the 2000 campaign as things he would do... Education bill, prescription drugs, and campaign finance reform. He also said he would "take out Hussein", limit Partial Birth Abortion, and appoint "strict constructionists" to judicial roles. He has done all of these things. I voted for him knowing what he promised to do, and I didn't agree with everything he said.