R is for Republicans

Conservative principles are at the core of our country’s foundation Shrinking our government as required by the Founder’s Constitution. In order for our country’s greatness to continue unabated, We must ensure the Democratic socialism is defeated. Do you want the UN telling our soldiers what to do? Or what about your taxes?  You want to pay more, don’t you? Should the teacher’s unions continue to dominate our schools? Or gun laws prohibiting your own defense should be the rule? If your answer to these questions is a loud, resounding NO, Then on the next Election Day you have no choice but to go To the polls and vote for the one party that every day can Work to protect you from the government: the Republicans!

Tuesday is Election Day 2004.  After nearly two years of campaigning and asking for your vote, Senator John F. Kerry and President George W. Bush are out of time.  Three debates, countless hours of campaigning, and hundreds of millions of dollars later and it’s all up to you, the voter.

There are many reasons that a person should cast their ballot for President Bush.  Bush’s policies have helped our country’s economy rebound from the dangerous slide that began at the end of Clinton’s final year in office and was exacerbated by the September 11 attacks.  But that is not the central issue that affects this presidential campaign.  The war in Iraq has become the central issue, but unfortunately, for all of the wrong reasons.

The media portrays the war in Iraq as a distraction from the war on terror even while they report on the thousands of terrorists flooding into the country.  The War on Terrorism, as Bush has said, has many fronts.  One is in Iraq, one is in Afghanistan, one is here at home, and there are many more out there.  Terrorism must be confronted directly, not pussy-footed around in some misguided hope that it will go away.  Fear must be met with strength, not UN sanctions and other countries refusing to do anything to confront a mutual threat.  History must write the same thing about the war on terror as it wrote about the fall of Communism and the destruction of the Soviet Union, but only President Bush has the resolve to see this war through to the very last terrorist.  What’s his opponent’s plan?  To reduce terrorism and bring it back to the tolerable levels of the Clinton years when nothing at all was done about it.

A vote for President Bush will do something the world fears: four more years of the Bush Doctrine and its goal of infusing democracy and freedom into other countries around the world.  It is a vote for America’s greatness, a vote for America’s pride, and most importantly a vote for exporting America’s freedoms and liberties to the rest of the world.  That’s why the world, and many liberals, hate Bush.  He dares to consider America a beacon of freedom, liberty, and greatness with values that must be shared with the rest of the world instead of keeping dictators and tyrants in power in some blind, misguided hope that they will leave us alone.  The isolationists in the Thirties were every bit as wrong in their hopes that Germany and Japan would leave us alone as the isolationist liberals are today in their hopes that terrorists will leave us alone.

President Bush understands the nature of the threat, and he has demonstrated his ability to deal with that threat and keep Americans safe.  People complain because there seems to be an increase in terrorism around the world, but thanks to the Bush administration, the increase in terrorism is largely contained in its natural breeding grounds in the Middle East.  When was the last time an American was killed by a terrorist in this country?  It’s been more than three years since those horrible attacks, and our country remains safe and secure.  It is a period longer than at any time since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and Bush is responsible for that just as much as he would be responsible should there be another attack on America on his watch.

President Bush kept his initial campaign promise to restore decency and pride to the Oval Office.  We are an America that is proud again.  Sure, the war in Iraq is not going well, but we are nevertheless winning the War on Terrorism.  Afghanistan’s elections demonstrate that, and Iraq’s forthcoming elections in January will similarly demonstrate that.  Not every battle of every war is won smoothly.  The important thing is to remember the importance of the current battles in the future of our civilization.

President Bush understands the critical important of this War on Terror.  He is uninterested in returning terrorism to their Clinton-era levels when they could be easily ignored and swept under the proverbial rug.  He wants to wipe them off the face of the earth.

A recent presidential election asked the voters whether or not they were better off than four years earlier.  This year, it is only a slightly different question: are you safer now than four years ago?  It is important, though, to not answer that question based on how safe you remember feeling, but rather on how safe you actually were now that we fully understand the nature of the threat that confronted us long before any of us realized.  Now, compare that to how safe you are today thanks to the leadership, foresight, fortitude, and courage of President George W. Bush.

On Tuesday, cast your ballot for the man who has kept us safe for three years and whose goal to fully eliminate terrorism from this earth will keep us safe not for four more years, but for four more decades.

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