Saturday, May 15, 2004
Conservatives for Kerry?
Bill Sizemore wrote a piece for Newswithviews.com back in February entitled Unhelpful Conservative Bush Bashing in which he criticized the grumbling about Bush among the Conservative ranks. Apparently it wasn't very well received by his readers. Last Tuesday (May 11th) he wrote a follow-up piece - A Lesser of Two Evils? - which is basically a response to the "venomous emails" he received following the first piece.
Sizemore makes some interesting concessions in the follow up piece.
None of this surprises me, frankly. I think what we're seeing here is the inevitable clash between the tradional conservative base of the GOP and the NeoCons currently in power.
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Sizemore makes some interesting concessions in the follow up piece.
...some argued in the emails I received that those conservatives who favor limited government would be better off under Kerry. Unfortunately, they made some valid points.
“A Republican Congress would never have allowed the kind of domestic spending increases George W. Bush pushed through using presidential arm twisting and appeals to party loyalty,” some wrote. Ouch!
“We’d be better off with a liberal like John Kerry as President, at least then the Republicans would put up a fight on budget issues,” others said. They are probably right about that.
“Kerry would not have gotten us bogged down in an illegal, empire building war in Iraq,” or “Some of Bush’s appointees to the federal bench and other insider positions are not conservatives,” others argued, pointing out that Bush is even considering his own Whitehouse counsel, a man of questionable conservative credentials, as his first Supreme Court nominee.
None of this surprises me, frankly. I think what we're seeing here is the inevitable clash between the tradional conservative base of the GOP and the NeoCons currently in power.
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