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Originally posted by roxdog,
Sure, Bush and Co. ...BushCo. Whatever. But Bush is by no means "The Far Right"..he's a big government liberal in conservative clothing. |
If that's the case, and Bush's crowd openly show their contempt for liberals, how does that make HIM a liberal? In other words, if he IS really a liberal and the Democrats hate him anyway, doesn't that prove once and for all that our so-called 2 party system is a big fraud and just a show put on for the electorate to divide us to where the voters are actually of no concern to anyone in government today?
But let's take the "big government" point. Since openly advocating bigger government is a recent Republican shift from their long-stated policies against it, as well as the support he has lost from many mainstream Republicans because of it, doesn't that policy change indicate Bush doesn't represent the core of the Republican party? That's my point, that either he is a Republican in name only and ought to go shopping for another party name, or ALL the Republicans ought to just admit they now think like Democrats and shut up about being tarred with the same brush as the liberals.
My feeling is unchanged, and Bush and his followers are radical right and should be recognized as such. Of course I would prefer if he DID represent the mainstream Republican Party, as that would reinforce what a lot of us have been saying for a long time, that there is almost no difference between the two parties, and it's time to start shopping for new leadership that doesn't represent EITHER the Democrats or Republicans, because whether it's Bush or Kerry this time it won't amount to a big difference in any case.