Voting for the Truth
Let’s see, where to start. I had been planning to vote for President Bush in a few weeks. Now I have been reconsidering.
I had reservations about President Bush back in 2000. I was not old enough to vote back then, but I still followed the candidates and their claims. I saw President Bush take advantage of the usual post-terrorist hysteria to get very wrong laws passed. I saw the Republican Congress refuse to pass many of those same laws after the Trade Center and Oklahoma city bombings. The reason for their refusal was supposedly because President Clinton would abuse those laws. I fail to see how the current situation is any different with the
PATRIOT act. Even if President Bush were a perfectly wise and benevolent president his successors would likely not be as sublime.
The long and short of this is that I am wondering if voting for President Bush after all that he has (and has not) done would be compromising with my conscience. I think that I will have to create a Pro vs. Con sheet for President Bush and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik. I will vote for whichever one comes out on top.