The Soapbox

Kerry Supporters' Playground-Debate Tactics

I was recently called "brainwashed, insane or rich" because I support President Bush for re-election. Ignoring the logical flaws of that position, I've noticed an increasing number of Kerry supporters resorting to these playground-debate tactics.

However, it really isn't their fault that Kerry supporters must resort to questioning the intelligence of those who disagree with them. After all, the only consistent position that Kerry has given his supporters is that he's not George Bush.

Au Revoir John Kerry

Ralph Peters in the New York Post:

Even if I detested everything about President Bush, I'd vote for him just to rub it in the faces of the Germans, the French and all of the tyrants rooting for the Iraqi people to slip back into despotism. We Americans choose our own presidents, and we don't take orders from Europeans or from any of Kerry's other Swiss boarding-school pals.

I think it's great that Kerry speaks fluent French. I wish he'd go to France where he could speak it all the time.

Ouch!

It's time to pick sides

Mark Steyn, writing in The Australian, agrees with me: "What happened in one Russian schoolhouse is an abomination that has to be defeated, not merely regretted. But the only guys with any kind of plan are the Bush administration."

UPDATE: John H. Hinderaker of the Powerline Blog agrees too: "By far the most important thing a President can do to support the economy is to prevent terrorist attacks."

Why I'm Voting for Bush

This weekend in Russia, two hundred people are dead. Many of them children. As of Saturday morning, 531 people remain hospitalized, including 283 kids -- 92 of them in grave condition.

This pisses me off!

How many more terrorist acts are required before people wake up and realize that the world is a dangerous place governed by the aggressive use of force? I'm amazed at the people who think the critical issues in this US election include jobs and other ancillary issues. Under normal conditions that is certainly a valid motivation for casting your vote.

However, we are not under normal conditions. We are at war. A war we neither sought nor deserved. The Constitution specifically states that one of the responsibilities the people gave government was to "provide for the common defense." There is a reason for this. Without security, there won't be any jobs.

I voted for Gore last time around and Clinton before that. However, I've also voted for Bush over Clinton and Reagan twice. Demonstrably, I don't have any allegiance to any party. Fact is, if we weren't in a global war for the future of freedom, I would probably vote for Edwards in the hopes that he would keep the flap in the breeze Kerry blowing in the right direction.

I fail to see how letting people of the same sex who love each other get married will be more destructive to marriage than a near 50% divorce rate. I believe our environment is worse off now than it was before Bush. I think stem cell research will prove to be as big a healthcare advancement this century as penicillin was in the last. I also believe all of that is irrelevant when there are people who are actively seeking to kill you and me.

Therefore, I will vote for Bush November 2nd. I think you should too.

Cheyney spells it out

My favorite line from last night's speech by Vice President Dick Cheyney: "He [John Kerry] declared at the Democratic convention that he will forcefully defend America after we have been attacked. My fellow Americans, we have already been attacked."

Here is the rest of the transcript.

Zel Miller wacks Matthews

Captain Ed: "When you hit a bully in the nose, they inevitably back down and claim they meant no harm, which Matthews did several times at the end of his interview with Miller."

Read the rest of his analysis of Zel Miller's appearance on Hard Ball here.

UPDATE: Video of the smackdown is here.