Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] interesting article from a former Bush supporter

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Jonathan King wrote:

> A specific example:  Ronald Reagan was very enamored with tax cuts in 
> his first year in office, but by the third year or so, he realized 
> (reluctantly, I'm sure) that the wished-for effect of better budget 
> deficit numbers due to the tax cuts just wasn't happened, so he 
> swallowed hard and supported changes (and partial reversals) of the tax 
> plan he had originally championed.  Now, he didn't brag about this, and 
> Reagan was not an unstubborn man in many ways, but...he did what he 
> thought had to be done.  This is exactly the kind of thing that George 
> Bush just really doesn't do.  Not when it's about taxes, about our 
> foreign policy, our stance on global wrming, or anything else.

George HW Bush also promised "No new taxes!" but he had to raise them. 
He probably knew when he made the promise that he would have to break it, 
but the thing is, you can't win an election running on a tax-increase 
platform.  People want to believe that their favored candidate can somehow 
magically make everything alright for free.


> I think this, more than anything else, is what has finally begun to 
> change the opinions of more serious conservative writers and thinkers, 
> and people in the general public.

I think so, but remember that 29% of Americans is about 84 million people 
who still approve of Bush.  Those people, I think, are like Bush in that 
they will never change their minds.  This is the issue that I've been 
writing about and that seems to be "insulting" some of the religious 
conservatives on this list.

The thing is, you guys can't have it both ways:  You can't be a 
religiously-motivated 100% unwaivering Bush supporter, and convince me 
that you are listening to evidence with an open mind.  It's not going to 
happen.  So you can pretend that you have your doubts about religion, or 
Bush, or whatever, but I'm not seeing them.  It isn't convincing me.

Mike

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