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Date: | Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:24:41 -0700 |
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since you guys are interested in conservative
opposition to bush, you might find this interesting.
it might give you and idea of the broad range of my
reading.
> AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE HAS ENDORSED JOHN
> KERRY. Here are the last
> two paragraphs,
>
> "If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition
> from Inauguration Day
> forward. But the most important battles will take
> place within the
> Republican Party and the conservative movement. A
> Bush defeat will ignite a
> huge soul-searching within the rank-and-file of
> Republicandom: a quest to
> find out how and where the Bush presidency went
> wrong. And it is then that
> more traditional conservatives will have an audience
> to argue for a
> conservatism informed by the lessons of history,
> based in prudence and a
> sense of continuity with the American past - and to
> make that case without a
> powerful White House pulling in the opposite
> direction.
>
> George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that
> is antithetical to almost
> any kind of thoughtful conservatism. His
> international policies have been
> based on the hopelessly naïve belief that foreign
> peoples are eager to be liberated by American
> armies - a notion more
> grounded in Leon Trotsky's concept of global
> revolution than any sort of
> conservative statecraft. His immigration policies -
> temporarily put on hold
> while he runs for re-election - are just as extreme.
> A re-elected President
> Bush would be committed to bringing in millions of
> low-wage immigrants to do
> jobs Americans "won't do." This election is all
> about George W. Bush, and
> those issues are enough to render him unworthy of
> any conservative support."
>
For the complete article:
http://www.amconmag.com/2004_11_08/cover1.html
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