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I recently heard a local talk show host tell her audience that she has considered voting for John Kerry because she thought we needed a broad-based coalition to help us fight the war on terror. She thought Kerry was more adept at building such a coalition. I would like to see proof. In order to build a coalition, one needs to share goals and have common interests with those who would be part of such a coalition. I asked myself who does John Kerry share more common interests with: The Republican Party? Russia? France? Germany? Has he built any broad-based coalitions here in the United States during his twenty unremarkable years in the US Senate? Has he done anything that required making concessions with his Republican colleagues? Presumably he has more common interests with other US Senators than he has with foreign leaders. We are all Americans after all. All I know of Kerry’s record is that he voted against nearly everything that Republican leaders in our country voted for, including the military build-up that was responsible for our victories in Iraq and Afghanistan. If Kerry had his way we would not have been militarily capable of pushing Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, or Al Quaida out of Afghanistan. How does he expect to get Vladimir Putin to come onboard? By being disagreeable? Its one thing to say he would build a coalition and quite another to actually do it. George Bush has actually done it. He built a coalition with the Democrats and made a great deal of concessions in order to get Ted Kennedy’s education bill passed. Even though Republicans have a majority in both houses of Congress, President Bush has not acted in an extreme partisan fashion. In compromising with the Democrats, President Bush angered much of his Conservative base but it proved that he is willing to work with others to advance a common goal. He heeded the specious advice of Kerry and his Democratic colleagues in building the largest possible coalition to go into Iraq with after spending what many said was too much time in fruitless negotiations. President Bush has proven that he has the right balance of strength and humility to restore America’s place in the world. He is a man of action. Kerry is all talk.
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