Some Things President Bush Might Say

We all know that hindsight is 20/20. That applies to the reasons for taking the war on terrorism to Iraq. We know at this time that no WMDs have been found in Iraq. But everyone believed they were there (even John Skerry). Yet, after the debate tonight, we all second-guess what was said. Here are some things I think that President Bush might say to or about Senator Skerry:

Senator Kerry, your initials may be JFK, but you are no John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

John Kennedy said "a rising tide raises all ship," yet, you play the class-envy game by wanting to tax the successful more. That suppresses the rising tide.

John Kennedy also said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Instead of asking the citizens to take responsibility for their own lives and empowering the people, you want people to keep asking what can you promise that government will do for them, thereby bloating the government and creating more dependence on government. I am asking the people to take responsibility for their lives, rather than relying on government.

John Kennedy also said, "Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. . . It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut rates now. . . . The purpose of cutting taxes is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which will bring a budget surplus." Yet, again, you want to raise taxes on the very people who create jobs and invest in new equipment. Besides, Senator Kerry, I have never been hired for a job by a poor person.

Senator Kerry says that he will add another 40,000 troops to our volunteer army. At the same time he and his liberal colleagues complain that not enough people are signing up or re-enlisting now. How is he going to add more troops without a draft?

Senator Kerry has indicated that he will unilaterally send our troops into the Sudan on a meals-on-wheels-type mission. He basically wants to put our soldiers in harm’s way to feed the hungry and stand between warring factions. Who in their right mind would want to sign up for that when it would not solve the problems there? And why does Senator Kerry insist that we must have the "dream coalition" to defend ourselves against a madman in Iraq, but we must send our troops into the Sudan without out a coalition?

Senator Kerry says he would have been able to convince France, Germany, China and others to join the coalition. But, it's the bribery, stupid. How can you convince them to join you when they are taking bribes to vote against you? You would have to offer them a bigger bribe. And if they accepted the bribe, is that not truly a coalition of the unwilling and the coerced?