Six Reasons Why Republicans Should Vote Against Bush

Saturday, January 01, 2000 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: President Bush, Bush Administration, Patriot Act

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Reason #1: Republicans stand for individual freedom
Bush has done more to take away American freedoms than any president in recent memory. There's the Patriot Act, the expanded wiretapping laws, the new search-and-seizure regulations, and a long list of freedom-squashing rules that have been made the law of the land under President Bush and Attorney General Ashcroft. It seems as if the Bush Administration won't stop until every American is required to undergo random searches, submit to fingerprinting, and have their phone conversations and Internet connections routinely monitored. These rules -- and many more -- have all been made into law with the justification that we're fighting "The war on terror!" In contrast, if President Clinton had suggested something even close to the Patriot Act, conservatives in the U.S. would have taken to the streets in protest. "Secret wiretaps! Secret police! Jack-booted thugs!" That's because Republicans traditionally hold their ground when it comes to personal privacy and individual freedom. But not when Bush is at the helm. For some reason, Republicans have applauded Bush's meticulous destruction of The Bill of Rights.

Reason #2: Republicans believe in honesty
Bush is nothing close to honest. First, he lied to the American public to get them to believe Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11, then he lied to everyone yet again about intelligence of the Weapons of Mass Destruction that he apparently knew never existed in order to rally U.S. support for an invasion of Iraq. He lied about the cost of Medicare reform, he lied to our troops about how long they'd be stationed in Iraq, and his administration pressured the mainstream media to keep on lying to the American people about what was really happening Iraq. President Bush is an habitual liar, and that's not the kind of person Republicans should hope to see in our highest office.

Reason #3: Republicans believe in small government
President Bush has put the United States deeper into federal debt than any single president in U.S. history, Democrat or Republican. Under Bush, our federal deficit has exploded and our national debt has rocketed past $7 trillion. Unbelievably, Bush is now putting our nation $2 billion further into debt each and every day! Federal spending is skyrocketing with virtually no restraint. Once again, it's all justified because we're fighting "The War On Terror!" Sadly, the national debt is now so large that future generations of U.S. taxpayers will have to pay an estimated 80% of their income in taxes in order to pay it off.

In an historical sense, Bush is spending money like an out-of-control "big government" Democrat. In doing so, he's driving the U.S. economy into the ground. The U.S. dollar continues to lose ground against currencies of the world. If this present trend continues, U.S. dollars will become all but worthless, and the national debt will at that point become a global economic crisis.

No Republican in his or her right mind should vote for a candidate responsible for expanding the national debt, growing big government, and creating a financial burden that can only be corrected with an 80% federal income tax rate. Republicans traditionally stand for smaller government, less spending, and lowering the national debt. President Bush stands for none of those things.

Reason #4: Republicans are pro-business
President Bush is anti-business, unless you happen to be in the business of creating missiles, bullets, or petroleum products. How's that? Today, business is global. You can't just focus on U.S. consumers any more: you have to think about the global market. But global markets are suddenly reluctant to buy from U.S. companies thanks to the simple fact that Bush has single-handedly alienated many of our nation's best trading partners, including France, Germany, Australia, Canada, China and Japan. How'd he do that? By attacking them over their unwillingness to join the U.S. in an unjustified war with Iraq. Bush's so-called "Coalition of the Willing," if you remember, included none of the big-name countries. That is, unless you consider Morocco and Iceland to be major players in the world economy...

Sadly, the vast majority of international citizens think President Bush is a complete idiot, and right along with that, they think that the United States has gone mad. You don't hear this view from U.S. newspapers and cable news stations, of course, but if you pick up a Canadian newspaper, a BBC broadcast, a French magazine or any piece of media from anywhere else in the world, it doesn't take long to realize that President Bush is considered a complete moron by the rest of the world. Only in the U.S. is he considered anything resembling a hero, and even those images have all been staged.

As a result of all this, U.S. business owners trying to compete in the international marketplace are now having a very difficult time getting past anti-U.S. sentiment that now exists practically everywhere. In other words, in his quest to invade Iraq over control of oil supplies, president Bush sacrificed the competitiveness of U.S. businesses. How's that for economic policy? Technically, Bush's economy policy can be wrapped up in just three words: "Go to war!"

Reason #5: Republicans don't engage in war crimes
Under President Bush, the U.S. military has committed numerous war crimes like torturing prisoners, kidnapping civilians, and holding American citizens in detention camps without charging them with crimes. The U.S. military has knowingly targeted and murdered civilians, bombed wedding parties and schools, and even engaged in despicable acts like clamping high voltage wires to the testicles of prisoners and blasting them with enough electricity to make their blood vessels explode.

And, yes, I'm talking about the U.S. military here. Thanks to photos leaked on the Internet, the whole world now knows the U.S. military is actively engaged in war crimes: torture, kidnapping and grotesque, inhumane acts like forcing Iraqi prisoners to perform bizarre sexual acts. In response to all this, did the U.S. apologize? Did it arrest and convict the soldiers responsible for these actions? Nothing of the kind! Instead, the U.S. attempted to get the United Nations to pass a resolution exempting the United States from war crimes prosecutions. And the Pentagon, for its part, has outlawed digital cameras in the military to prevent such pictures from ever getting leaked to the Internet again.

The very fact that the U.S. is seeking immunity from international war crimes is a frightening indication of just how far our nation has sunk under President Bush. Where our military used to command honor and respect, it now stands for an inhumane regime that engages in torture and prisoner abuse reminiscent of the Japanese atrocities committed in World War II against the Chinese. Or the treatment of the Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany. Today, the entire world sees our military as gang of abusive, inhumane, animal-minded whackos who get their kicks from stuffing toilet plungers into the anuses of prisoners. This is not the image our military deserves, yet it is an image that somehow seems befitting of both Bush and Rumsfeld.

Think back: would Harry Truman have allowed this to take place? Would Ronald Reagan? Of course not. No former U.S. president would have tolerated such actions by the military, regardless of the context. But to Bush and Rumsfeld, these actions don't deserve a single apology.

Reason #6: Republicans are intelligent people
Bush isn't. It's difficult, if not impossible, to name a single Republican elected to public office who's dumber than Bush. It's apparent in his speech, in that glazed look he gets, in his bizarre difficulty in answering softball questions in live television interviews. Any self-respecting, intelligent Republican should be rather embarrassed to have George W. Bush as their leader. It's almost like announcing, "We're the dumb and dumber political party!" There are plenty of intelligent Republicans to choose from. Senator McCain, Senator Orrin Hatch... heck, even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's actually a very sharp guy. But Bush? Arnold could out-wit George W. in two seconds. There's absolutely nothing about George W. that radiates a single iota of intelligence. Listen up, Republicans: if you vote for George W., you are electing to be led by a moron.

The Big Picture
C'mon, admit it. If you're a Republican, Bush is kinda scary, isn't he? In just four years, he's created a Police State society, taken away more freedoms than Clinton even dared think about, created more "big government" spending than any Democrat (or Republican) in history, managed to piss off every major trading partner on the planet, and can't seem to edge his way over that 100 IQ-point milestone.

Look, Clinton's crime was getting blown in the Oval office, secretly killing a couple of dozen people who interfered with his political success, getting jiggy with gun control and bombing a couple of aspirin factories in Sudan. Bush, on the other hand, has invaded a foreign nation, repeatedly lied to the American people, turned the U.S. economy into a war machine, and created a Police State society right here at home. He's created the office of Motherland Security... er, I mean Homeland Security and, effectively, declared war on the American people.

This coming November, there's an IQ test at the ballot box: your IQ. Voting for Bush is the single dumbest thing any American can possibly do this year. It's beyond dumb, actually: it's an affront to everything America stands for: liberty, freedom, justice... you get the picture. Bush has downgraded us on all three. In less than four years, Bush has made America the most hated nation in the world and greatly worsened our nation's economic future. We are far worse off today than when Bush took office, and the damage done by Bush will no doubt outlast his regime.

If you voted for Bush once already, don't be fooled twice. You get a free pass on the 2000 vote, since you didn't know all this about Bush four years ago. But today, knowing what you know now, there's no excuse for voting for this moron. Don't be a second-time fool. This time, vote Bush out of the White House for good!

Now, maybe you're a Republican, and maybe you don't like Sen. Kerry. So you're going to vote for Bush just to make sure a Democrat doesn't get into office, right? I've got news for you: Bush is the biggest Democrat we've ever seen! Who else could pass the Patriot Act, multiply the size of Big Government, explode the national debt, get us into an un-winnable war, and mishandle international trade relations with such complacency? And if elected to a second-term, Bush would be free to do anything he wanted without daring to consider the voters, since he can't seek a third term anyway. Together with Ashcroft, Cheney and Rumsfeld, who knows what further destruction Bush could wreak on the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. If you thought Bush was scary in his first term, just imagine what he might do under a second.

If you believe in the Bill of Rights, if you believe in the U.S. Constitution, if you believe in fiscal sanity and personal privacy and personal integrity... then you believe in voting Bush out of office. Vote what you truly believe. Vote against Bush this November. And help return America and its armed forces to the level of integrity she truly deserves.