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American Conservative Magazine Columnist: Kerry’s the One
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 22, 2004 02:58pm |
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| Category | Endorsement |
| Media | Weekly News Magazine - American Conservative, The |
| News Date | Friday, October 22, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy.
During the campaign, few have paid attention to how much the Bush presidency has degraded the image of the United States in the world.
Bush has accomplished this by giving the U.S. a novel foreign-policy doctrine under which it arrogates to itself the right to invade any country it wants if it feels threatened. It is an American version of the Brezhnev Doctrine, but the latter was at least confined to Eastern Europe. If the analogy seems extreme, what is an appropriate comparison when a country manufactures falsehoods about a foreign government, disseminates them widely, and invades the country on the basis of those falsehoods?
The only way Americans will have a presidency in which neoconservatives and the Christian Armageddon set are not holding the reins of power is if Kerry is elected
George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism.
This election is all about George W. Bush, and those issues are enough to render him unworthy of any conservative support. |
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