Doug: I don't understand this charge that Bush is a hypocrite because
he's appointing conservatives. I've been hearing this all over, but it
makes no sense.
Bush ran as a moderate republican. Meaning that if you look at the
makeup of the republican party, he is a moderate within the party.
That doesn't mean that he is a moderate compared to the national mean,
but it doesn't make it a lie that he is a moderate.
Did anyone expect that he would appoint only moderates and liberals to
cabinet positions? I never heard him make this campaign pledge, even
in code phrases. He did promise to be inclusive...meaning that he
wouldn't just appoint conservatives. But, he did go around during the
campaign calling himself a conservative, albeit a "compassionate" one.
But the truth about Bush is that he can't be that conservative because
he isn't interested in ideology, given his admitted lack of
intellectual curiosity (compare to say, Newt Gingrich, an
"intellectual" conservative). Sure, he's for all the standard
republican things and against all the standard republican things. But
that doesn't make him an extreme conservative, it makes him a moderate
conservative. I don't understand why people say he's betraying the
country by being a moderate conservative. I understand that as a more
liberal person you'd prefer more liberal policies, but you'd probably
prefer more liberal policies than Al Gore would propose. The fact that
Bush is slightly more conservative that Gore doesn't mean he's a hypocrite.
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Darryl
Think Galactically -- Act Terrestrially
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