Nate Perkins responds:


that the same leader that the conservatives look to (Bush) has just
expanded entitlements more than any president in the last 40 years.
As a moderate, this makes me think he's just irresponsible and lacks
credibility. So if you talk about smaller government and "getting
government off the people's backs" at the same time you are growing it
by leaps and bounds, do you really have credibility? Is Bush your
true conservative?

Is anyone a true fiscal conservative? What do we do in the face of the feds,
for example, deciding not to invest in safety any more, no laws about seat
belts because enforcement costs tax bucks? No controls on air traffic
controllers because that costs tax bucks? No food checks because that costs tax
bucks? No public health efforts at all, because they're not mandated in the
Constitution?

Conservatives who back Bush are either blind or hallucinating, IMO.
Libertarians who want the world to let them alone, let them keep all they
"earn", are even stranger.

Charlie Self
"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." H. L. Mencken