In Reply to: Re: Where are you getting those figures? posted by Miguel on June 09, 2004 at 20:22:42:
Hi Miguel,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, you answered some of my questions, but were a bit vague on others. For example:
You wrote:
"Now I will not vote for anybody until I hear people saying that this system is rotten but I am about to make an
exception because the actual president has to go.
I cannot be a democrat because there are very dear things to democrats that I cannot in all
conscience support.
I cannot be a republican because there are very dear things to republicans that I cannot in
all conscience support."
Okay, first you say you're not going to vote for anybody, but then you say you will, becauseBush must go. Then you say you don't support either the Democrats or Republicans because of unnamed policies they embrace that you don't like. Okay, fair enough, then if you say Bush must go, and you will vote, but not for Kerry, then who will you vote for?
The only third party candidate is Ralph Nader. Ralph doesn't have a prayer of beating either Bush or Kerry, and I say thank God for that. I can understand you saying that you don't care for either Bush or Kerry. I also see prroblems with both of these candidates (although in my opinion, Bush's problems are far less odious than Kerry's). But in light of Ralph Nader's socialistic, anti-business, anti-free enterprise platform and his kooky beliefs, I wonder how in all conscience you could vote for him? Could it be that you are more liberal than you realize or are willing to admit?
You have to be pragmatic. Like it or not, this is a two-party system, and it's going to be a tight race between Bush and Kerry. Ralph Nader has no hope of winning and he knows it. This is nothing but a PR stunt for him. It gives him an opportunity to get before the cameras and broadcast his fringe views. I suspect he fancies himself a power broker, in the same way former candidate Rev. Al Sharpton did, and will cut a deal with Kerry. Aren't you just a wee bit curious about the purpose of that meeting between Nader and Kerry?
The only impact Nader might have is to siphon off votes from Kerry. You know that no Republican or moderate Democrat is going to vote for Nader. With such a close race, anyone who decides to either not vote or to vote for a third-party candidate will just be helping put Kerry in the White House. If you think things are bad under Bush, just wait until Kerry is president! This man has a very liberal 20-year record in the Senate. He makes Ted Kennedy look like a moderate. Don't pay attention to what he says he will do or what he says he believes...look at what he has done in the Senate.
I really can't comprehend how someone who has voted for and even campaigned for a Republican can now be contemplating voting for such a left-wing fring candidate as Nader.
Now about Reagan and Bush41 foreign policies:
Nicaragua is free of a Cuban-sponsored Marxist government, thanks to Reagan's support of the Contras. If you ask the people of Nicaragua, most will tell you they are better off without Comandante Daniel Ortega and his ilk.
Ditto the people of the former Soviet Union and their satellite states. Thanks to Reagan's foreign policies, the Berlin wal is gone, and the Russian gulags are only a bad memory.
Ditto the people of Kuwait, who thanks t