[Kevin]

Bush has been a real confusing guy for me and it's hard to label him liberal or conservative. If you want to make the argument that he's a liberal, it's not hard... The guy has done more to grow the government than any President since FDR. Of course on the other hand, you could argue that no President has faced a crisis this serious since FDR and therefore, the need to grow the government like this just hasn't been there.

It's not all cut and dry, black and white like people seem to like things. I'd even go as far to say that the old labels of "liberal" and "conservative" just don't seem to apply here.

People have also assigned meanings to those words that just simply aren't in the true definitions. For example, it is thought that to be a conservative, you have to be pushing a religous agenda, you have to be hawkish, etc. On the other hand, to be liberal, you must believe in allowing people to do whatever they want as long as you don't perceive an injury being done to someone else, you believe that bombs don't solve anything, etc.. Those meanings, I'd argue need to be understood to be seperate from the labels liberal and conservative.

I'd say that I tend to lean more towards the libertarian side of things, but I can appreciate a President who's willing to take a stand on things and not just play politics with everything. I like a guy that sometimes does what he feels is right regardless of what anyone else thinks -- in other words, I like a guy that has convictions to be in office, even if I disagree with what he says and does over half of the time. Kerry worries me in that he doesn't seem to have any convictions, no one really, and I mean REALLY knows a damned thing about him. He has been in the Senate 20+ years and never really amounted to much more than a consistant vote for the "liberal" side of the aisle.

I don't believe that Bush is right on many things including his administration's drug policy, the policies against stem-cell research, his stance on gay marriage, etc. There are many things that I do agree with him on as well. All that said, if you guys have read anything I've posted in the last year or so (and if you read this whole post) you know where my vote's going to go.