Interesting critique of Arnold's speech
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T.Rally
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I thought Arnold brought it home with these lines;
"If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government...then you are a Republican! If you believe a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group... then you are a Republican! If you believe your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does... then you are a Republican! If you believe our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children ... then you are a Republican! If you believe this country, not the United Nations (news - web sites), is the best hope of democracy in the world ... then you are a Republican! And, ladies and gentlemen ...if you believe we must be fierce and relentless and terminate terrorism ... then you are a Republican! "
Of course the democrats would argue they believe the same but its not their convention.
"If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government...then you are a Republican! If you believe a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group... then you are a Republican! If you believe your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does... then you are a Republican! If you believe our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children ... then you are a Republican! If you believe this country, not the United Nations (news - web sites), is the best hope of democracy in the world ... then you are a Republican! And, ladies and gentlemen ...if you believe we must be fierce and relentless and terminate terrorism ... then you are a Republican! "
Of course the democrats would argue they believe the same but its not their convention.
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Bruzilla
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"The Democrats under Bill Clinton rediscovered a centrist philosophy they had abandoned. They became more attentive to public safety and more friendly to free enterprise." Sure... they moved to the center... right up until the votes were counted. After they won they moved right back to the Left. It was only the election of a Republican Congress, which through the Contract With America was able to force Clinton's hand back to the center, that anything good was achieved in the 90s. Were it not for Newt and the Republican Congress we would have had socialism out the tailpipe... sounds a lot like Communism does it not??? Also, the only thing the Dems did to promote public safety was that BS 100,000 new cops on the street deal that was a total fraud. And more friendly to free enterprise? That's a highly relative term. If you're only 1% friendly to free enterprise and increase your friendliness level by a whopping 100 percent, you're still at only 2%... that doesn't make you a Republican. 
"The American economy is performing far below par. Bush got the tax cuts he wanted when he came into office. He said they would fix the economy. They didn't." Again... more relative terms. What is par? What would "par" be if Bush had not gotten his tax cuts? If we were living though a deep recession as a result of Clinton's poor fiscal management and the 9/11 attacks I can guarantee you that the current state of the economy would look like a utopian dream. Too sit back now and say that we're not doing as good as we should be is to ignore the fact that we could very easily have been much, much worse off.
"This is election time, and Bush's decisions have turned out to be disastrously wrong." I thought this was the best line of this idiot's review. You would think that people like Saletan would have learned a long time ago that you shouldn't be so quick to judge decisions based on short term results. Remember how foolish is was to purchase Manhattan for some beads? How about the Louisiana or Alaska purchases? How many commentators thought it was an insane idea for us to break away from mother England? How many guys like Saleton thought it was an awful thing for the US to get involved in WWI or WWII, or to waste trillions of dollars keeping the peace in post-war Europe and Japan? The wiseness of decisions on the scale of the ones Bush has made can only really be judged over the long term. People who rush to judgement over the short term are the ones who shouldn't be giving advice on who to vote for.
I wonder if after 20 years or so, when there's peace in the Middle East as democracy spreads from Iraq to other countries, if Saleton will forget his comments in 2004 and (like his "Liberal" friends "forgetting" Communism) will view not going to war in Iraq as merely an alternative ideal?
"The American economy is performing far below par. Bush got the tax cuts he wanted when he came into office. He said they would fix the economy. They didn't." Again... more relative terms. What is par? What would "par" be if Bush had not gotten his tax cuts? If we were living though a deep recession as a result of Clinton's poor fiscal management and the 9/11 attacks I can guarantee you that the current state of the economy would look like a utopian dream. Too sit back now and say that we're not doing as good as we should be is to ignore the fact that we could very easily have been much, much worse off.
"This is election time, and Bush's decisions have turned out to be disastrously wrong." I thought this was the best line of this idiot's review. You would think that people like Saletan would have learned a long time ago that you shouldn't be so quick to judge decisions based on short term results. Remember how foolish is was to purchase Manhattan for some beads? How about the Louisiana or Alaska purchases? How many commentators thought it was an insane idea for us to break away from mother England? How many guys like Saleton thought it was an awful thing for the US to get involved in WWI or WWII, or to waste trillions of dollars keeping the peace in post-war Europe and Japan? The wiseness of decisions on the scale of the ones Bush has made can only really be judged over the long term. People who rush to judgement over the short term are the ones who shouldn't be giving advice on who to vote for.
I wonder if after 20 years or so, when there's peace in the Middle East as democracy spreads from Iraq to other countries, if Saleton will forget his comments in 2004 and (like his "Liberal" friends "forgetting" Communism) will view not going to war in Iraq as merely an alternative ideal?
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I thought the best line of the night belonged to Steele when he talked about the word Hope...
"We heard one word over and over again at the Democratic Convention: Hope.
But there is a problem, my friends: Hope is not a strategy. Hope doesn't protect you from terrorists, hope doesn't lower your taxes, hope doesn't help you buy a home, and hope doesn't ensure quality education for your kids.
As the book of James reminds us "it is not enough just to have faith. Faith that does not show itself by good deeds is no faith at all." You see, it's results that matter; and President Bush does not just talk about hope, he stands on a record of putting hope into action for America."
"We heard one word over and over again at the Democratic Convention: Hope.
But there is a problem, my friends: Hope is not a strategy. Hope doesn't protect you from terrorists, hope doesn't lower your taxes, hope doesn't help you buy a home, and hope doesn't ensure quality education for your kids.
As the book of James reminds us "it is not enough just to have faith. Faith that does not show itself by good deeds is no faith at all." You see, it's results that matter; and President Bush does not just talk about hope, he stands on a record of putting hope into action for America."