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To: DrDeb

CATO Institute . . . 'nuf said.
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Attacking the messenger rather than the message? I thought only our friends on the left did that?

I support Bush's foreign policy nearly 100%. But I find it hard to believe anyone can support his domestic agenda.


204 posted on 06/01/2005 7:20:11 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/charterschoolsexplained.htm)
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To: traviskicks

"Attacking the messenger rather than the message?"


I 'attack' both when appropriate.

[I'm certain that you don't wish to suggest that one should never question the personal bias/credibility of the 'messenger'? Debaters routinely address ETHOS, pathos, and logos!]

BTW: I do support MANY aspects of the President's domestic agenda. On the macro level, I support his emphasis on LIFE, ownership, accountability, and results. On the micro level, I support his focus on tax cuts, litigation reform, RESULTS-oriented/business friendly environmentalism, (strict constructionist) judges, educational testing/accountability, social security reform, life and marriage affirming legislation, and on and on and on.

President Bush is a conservative pragmatist (read Reagan incrementalist) and so am I.


215 posted on 06/01/2005 11:14:07 AM PDT by DrDeb
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To: traviskicks

Do you mean to say that you don't, and we shouldn't support tax cuts, nominating conservative judges, trying to privatize Social security, getting us out of Kyoto,(well, I guess that would go under foreign policy)signing a ban on partial-birth abortion, not supporting funding for using more embryos for stem cells, turning back Clinton's forest policy, and putting a much better balanced one in that involves the public, instead of going over their heads, just to please the environmentalists, that is, after all a lot of his domestic agenda, isn't it? So, tell me why we shouldn't support these measures?


224 posted on 06/02/2005 12:34:15 AM PDT by dsutah
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