Bush is scary, vote for Kerry
On one of my friend’s profiles, it says, “Bush is scary, Vote for Kerry.” I’ve heard a lot of Bush supporters complain because the sentiment from the Kerry camp is not necessarily to vote for Kerry because he’s such a fantastic candidate, but because he’s not Bush.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with this reason for voting for or even loudly supporting Kerry. After watching the first presidential debate, all I could think was “Cripes, we have to decide between these two buffoons? I’d rather let a band of monkeys run our country than pick one of them.” In this election, I think campaigning is less about convincing people that you’re going to be the next Bill Clinton in office (a tough mark, he was one of the greatest leaders of all time) and more about appearing to be the lesser of two evils.
The above profile is a quote of a small child, but I have to say, Bush scares me also. I’m more than a little afraid that he’s going to take over our country if he’s re-elected again, and transform us into a makeshift conservative dictatorship. I think Bush has a scary agenda, and I don’t want to find out what it entails.
One thing I know is on it is the Supreme Court. After his unsuccessful attempts to pack the federal courts with overly conservative bigots, I don’t think it would be wise of the American people to elect someone that has the potential to turn the Supreme Court into a nightmarish episode of Crossfire. The Supreme Court has evolved a lot since it’s creation in 1789, but one thing that has been constructed and should remain a staple of this mainstay of American politics is judicial independence. The Supreme Court needs to remain free of ideological bias and sovereign from the other branches of government.
That means that I don’t want Bush telling the Supreme Court how to rule just because it fits his conservative fetishes.
Another idea of Bush’s that scares me to death is his plan for abortion. Whether I’m pro-choice or pro-life, I’m anti-government when it comes to this issue. I don’t think it’s fair to allow a bunch of old, narrow-minded men (Bush and Co.) to decide what a woman my age should do with her body.
I can understand being pro-life for religious reasons, or reasons of morality, but these are two subjects that have no place in a political forum. Bush has already passed a bill banning partial birth abortion, and while I actually have no problem with this bill itself, I have plenty to say about its implications.
The first problem is that when this bill was created, there was no clause added to take the woman’s health into consideration, a more compassionate touch that would have detracted nothing from the bill, in addition to protecting a human life, which is what pro-lifers want to do in the first place.
Banning this procedure is not so bad. It is done solely on late term pregnancies and is rarely needed to save the mother’s life. Most abortions are performed before the fifth month of pregnancy, well before such a radical procedure would be necessary. Nevertheless, this ban has implications reaching far beyond the restriction it implements. This bill is a harbinger and a gateway to more legislation that will confine the freedom that legalized abortion allows.
Pro-life advocates have been trying without success to restrict and limit abortion in any way possible ever since it was legalized, and passing this bill was just one step in the direction of complete prohibition of abortion. This bill, however innocuous its immediate consequences, is only taking a step in the direction of fewer personal freedoms guaranteed to American citizens by the Constitution.
In short, I want to convey is that it’s OK to vote for Kerry just because he’s not Bush. I would, in fact, say that it’s one of his best qualities. Even aside from that, it’s a change, and we’ve found throughout history that one of the best ways to improve the status quo is through change.
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