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/p> p> NO EXCUSES br> Re: Quin Hillyer's Why Inept Republicans Can Win : /p> p>There are more than enough reasons why conservatives should flock to the polls this November and vote for Republicans. This President and Congress have NEVER raised taxes. The deficit this year will be 2.5 percent of GDP and on the road to being balanced by the time he leaves office (Reagan's deficit was 5.9 percent of GDP and Clinton's record is only slightly better than W's). Unemployment is consistently below 5 percent. The Misery Index under Ronald Reagan was 13.38 under W it is 7.78 (the national average since 1945 is 9.5). President Bush is the most pro-life President in U.S. history bar none and on social issues from homosexual sodomy being equated to marriage to burning the flag he is standing firm against the left. Government spending under President Reagan peaked at 23.5 percent of GDP and when he left office it was 21 percent of GDP (it was 18 percent when he entered the White House) under Bush the peak is 20.1 percent and we're at war. He is the only President in modern history who has appointed only conservatives to the Supreme Court. President Bush is the only President to actually fight terrorism. The record is clear that President Bush is governing primarily to the right of Reagan. While some conservatives are not unlike the radical left in their unwillingness to accept a difference of opinion on immigration issues (Hutchison-Pence is evidence that a workable compromise can be reached) they fail to realize that the Godfather of wide open borders was Ronald Reagan and even on this Bush is to the right of him. Conservatives need to stop falling prey to the drive-by media's propaganda designed to depress conservative voter turnout. Time to see the glass is half full and slowly filling up. Finally, the left has shown us what they want -- his name in Ned Lamont. That should scare us to the polls to maintain and increase the GOP majority. br> -- Michael Tomlinson br> Crownsville, Maryland /p>

We have a two party system. The evil party and the stupid party.

This "lesser-of-evils" stuff stinks -- and then Denny Hastert and his RNC friends send me supercilious "surveys" as an excuse for begging cash?

Noooooo way -- the Republican Party is totally undeserving; growth of government goes way up -- and even George Will pointed out that the spending/pork/"earmarks" increased well over 800 percent while congress has been under control of the GOP!

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