Our Family is DECIDEDLY pro-Bush!

Although I am on maternity leave and should be sleeping late, I felt compelled this morning to respond to a comment made on our post of the George Bush website. Smurf - you know we love you buddy, and I respect that you are interested enough in the future of our country to take a stand. However, I completely disagree with the stand you've taken.

In your comments, you say that Bush has lied to us so many times. In order for someone to lie to someone else, they have to KNOW that the truth is one thing and then say another. In all the investigations, it has never come out that Bush knew 100% without a doubt one thing and told the country something else. Think back to 9/11. Our parents have days that they will always remember where they were and what they were doing (the Kennedy assassination, the attempt on Reagan's life, etc.) - this is ours. I will never forget that day, and while I didn't know anyone personally who died as a result of those cruel acts, the people that committed those horrible crimes stole something from me, my children, and my grandchildren - the feeling that we are safe in our own communities. If our last democrat president had decided to go after the terrorists the first FEW times they attacked our interests (when they bombed the USS Cole for example), this may never have happened. Instead, he was too busy shagging his intern to worry about the state of our nation. He cut military spending, shrugged off attacks on our nation, and set our country up for 9/11. He lied UNDER OATH about his relationship with Monica and he broke a promise he made before God to be faithful to his wife. If you want to talk about liars, you should start with him.

This election isn't about past Presidents though - it's about the future of America and grading our current President on the past four years. During that time, he brought the country together in the greatest show of patriotism that I have seen in my entire life after 9/11. He made key decisions to lessen the financial impact of the attacks on our country, and he vowed to attack the terrorists that did this to us (which, as I said before, is more that can be said for a previous president). Our economy has rebounded and we've already seen a rise in the federal interest rates. More jobs are coming back, and though it has taken a while, we are recovering economically. Under another leader, the attacks on that day could have easily thrown us into another Depression.

Our President fought the terrorists that did this to us, capturing a man who has reigned with terror and committed horrible acts to his own countrymen (and, not to mention, sponsored the terrorist ideals and principles that led to 9/11) and is giving the people in their countries something they tried to take away from us - freedom. He recognizes freedom as a basic human right and sees that our power and wealth as a nation comes with a responsibility to do what we can to ensure that people in other countries enjoy basic human rights. The democrats, on the other hand, see braces for every child and cars for people who never work a day in their lives as basic human rights and they provide these to welfare families while you and I work every day to provide not only for our children, but the many, MANY children had by lazy welfare-recipients across the nation. This to me is egregious and ridiculous and shows the priorities of the democrats - anything for a vote.

As I will become a mother any day now, I have to think of what the world will be like for my son, and what I will teach him every day. If I voted for Kerry/Edwards (the most liberal ticket in the history of the country), I would be telling him that while Mommy and Daddy would never kill one of his unborn siblings, it's okay if his aunt and uncle kill his unborn cousin, or that I'm okay with him one day killing his perfectly healthy unborn child - that it's not possible for God to give us something we don't expect as part of His greater plan, so it's perfectly fine for us to "take care" of anything we don't want to deal with. We would be telling him that, while marriage is a sacred thing to Mommy and Daddy, it's okay if any two other folks really love each other and get married, no matter if they are the same sex - that all the passages in the Bible about marriage and relationships can be applied as needed and ignored other times. In short, a vote for Kerry would be telling him that while we go to church and have sound beliefs and TRY to do what God wants us to do with our lives, we are perfectly fine with others making different choices and that we will SUPPORT those choices. That it's alright if your best friend goes to hell as long as you don't. Basically, we would be teaching him that we are complete hypocrites.

I want my son to have moral fiber. To stand up for his beliefs even if they aren't popular and to do what's right in every situation, even if the right thing isn't the easiest thing. Teaching him to just shut his eyes and ignore things that he knows with every part of his being are wrong and un-Godly will be giving him an extremely weak foundation with which to enter the world. I will not handicap my son in that way.

Southern democrats and really democrats as a whole have been highly vocal for too long now. They are more organized and have greater positive media coverage than conservatives. It is time for the conservatives of America to unite and to speak out against the moral decay that will certainly occur if we allow these two "I'll tell you anything to get your vote" men to run our nation. Let's not repeat Clinton's years - take a stand, show your courage and support for a morally sound USA, and vote Bush/Cheney 2004!