[Mr 5 0]

I'm a conservative Republican and so I didn't even bother to watch the Kerry speech but I did see many excerpts and comments on it. Naturally, I think John Kerry is a joke.

Basically, we have a very clear choice this election. The choice between a semi-conservative Republican president and a very liberal Democrat. President Bush is no 'dummy' as the liberal media has tried to present him. That's a discredited canard that his actions belie. He has been a decisive leader in the very necessary War on Terrorism (9/11 really did occur, even though Democrats want to pretend it didn't) and although the invasion of Iraq didn't go perfectly and mistakes were made, as they always are in a war, it was successful and a body blow to the terrorist organizations in many ways, including the loss of an ally and a safe haven for terrorists to hide and plan how to murder even more Americans. The terrorist 'swamp' is slowly being drained in Iraq and that nation is on it's way to real freedom, always the enemy of the terrorists, who are, in reality, totalitarianists. That's why they're fighting so hard there and why we must defeat them and why we want to do that in Iraq; not in Los Angeles or New York or Chicago. Iraq is not the entire war on terrorism but it's an important piece and something that had to be done, WMD's or not....and even Senator John F. Kerry thought Iraq had the WMD's.

To see President Bush as 'the lesser of two evils' makes no sense to me at all. He inherited a sagging economy that 9/11 devastated, yet, with the help of his tax cuts for all lof us, the U.S. economy is booming and jobs are coming back at a hectic rate, over 250,000 a month. The liberals should love Bush: (Although I disagree with these actions): as he poured money into improving our public schools and he introduced a Prescription Drug benefit for Medicare receipents. All this while being in charge of the war in Iraq and fighting off a constant barrage of attacks from the left, mostly within the liberal media. President Bush has kept his word and has done a remarkable job in a very tough period of our national history. The Democrats have basically stood on the sidelines, booed him and called him 'stupid' and 'a liar' as he did the very best he could for his country - and successfully so. The economy is much better than when Bush took office and the war in Iraq is winding down as the Iraqi's take control of the security of their own country. Bush is an affable, honest and sincere man who has served well in his presidential term and deserves another four years to do even more.

To compare Bush and Kerry and find them the same in any way is ridiculous. Kerry is a two-faced pandering politician who says one thing and does something else the next day. Despite his tough talk at the convention he is a dove on our national defense and will raise our taxes - and don't for a moment buy the lie that he'll 'only raise taxes on the top 2%', either. He's a Democrat! They always raise taxes...on all of us. Kerry and Bush couldn't be more different, in both temperment and personality as well as in political ideology.

Look at it this way: who do you honestly think the terrorists really hate and want to lose? Vote for him.