[Ed Bighi]

I am a republican but my hatred of him started on the day he instulted america's intelligence by claiming that 9-11 happened as a hatred of freedom. That is even worse bull***** than the old " I feel your pain " crap that the last idiot used to deliver. For me it was downhill ever since. Then he started to spend money so quickly that I started to wonder which party he belonged to. Not to mention the fact that this money waste put the tax cuts that some of classic fiscal conservatives/social liberals waited years for in jeopardy. Trust me, tax cuts are good. Just check out the economy of any industrialized country with taxes lower than ours. But not when you go nation building which is a money waste every time. I won't get into that now though. Then came the religious bs. It was as if they just shut the door on the old northern republican base in order to appeal to the southern base who could care less about the old gop fiscal beliefs. As for helping corporations, it would not have been so bad if he would have helped them democratically. But to help only a few choice ones? Nah pal. Don't like him at all. I dislike the man no less than Clinton or Kerry. What I would not do for someone like Perot, who cannot be bought, running the country right now. And no, I will not say McCain since I think he is an inside player just as much as Kerry and Bush are. CFR and all. So, I will no longer vote until I see a good social liberal and fiscal conservative in one package. They are around. Just not as much here as in places like Liechtenstein. Someone who does not spend billions to wage a war for the single purpose of securing the position of the dollar instead of the euro as the fiat currency for oil trading. There are subtler ways of achieving that end. After his actions, we might now lose that position on principle alone. But what really irks me about this guy is how he took a cue from the Clinton school of bull*****ing the masses, added some evangelical rhetoric, mixed in some patriotic noise, threw in some some neo-cons who have always had a disturbing social conservative and many times fiscal liberal mindset ( they are willing to bend on the fiscal to achieve old goals), and then used it all to chase a unilateral middle eastern policy which won us no friends or allies of any great influence other than the UK. Not to mention singlehandedly bringing in fundamentalism in what was previously a secular country in a very fundamentalist region. Not a good recipe for global stability, deficit reduction, dollar strength, but most important, the respect and approval of america abroad. I would also like to add that, like Clinton in previous conflicts, he also let the cat out the bag as far as reminding the world that even the US has a tough time fighting a war of attrition. Even with our new toys. Something that could be a great advantage to Iran as far as allaying their fears of american intervention when it's really called for.