You might consider spending some time with the dictionary, specifically with
"liberal" and "conservative". Our political scale is generally considered to
consist of a center, with liberalism to the left of center and conservatism
to the right.

If you want to consider Bush to be not a conservative, the farthest to the
left you could place him would be the center, as he is certainly not a
liberal. Kerry, however, is about as liberal as you can get.

All of this is relative: you can't compare the liberalism/conservatism of
1776 with that of today. Views on government have changed far too much to
permit that.

One response: Bush on education. Bush is trying to repair and put some
rationality into federal education spending. But Bush did not put the
original programs into place, that was done primarily by liberals. And Bush
cannot get rid of the programs. Most of what Bush has done, for all
practical purposes, is rename some programs and try to improve them. But he
has not put any totally new educational programs into place.

I really don't care who you vote for; that's a choice our wonderful nation
gives you. But I do hope you try to get a little better understanding of
both candidates and what they are all about...



"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
Jay Honeck wrote:

Why change horses if there's no problem The Johns can solve?

Even if we accept your premise - that there's no problem they can solve,
which is not what Peter wrote - the answer is still fairly blatent: to
avoid production (or exacerbation) of more.

I'm no fan of Kerry, but I'm a conservative voter and Bush is less
conservative than Kerry. From the Patriot Act to tariffs to education to
marriage (and so on), Bush has been getting the Federal Government into
places it doesn't belong. How much more liberal in the reading of our
Constitution can one get?

Strange as it is to write, I think that Kerry would do this less. Rather:
while Kerry would probably be as economically irresponsible as Bush, he's
less likely to be as liberal in areas involving Civil Rights.

These are definitely weird times!

- Andrew