Dear William Bryk:
I read with great interest your recent article, "The Conservative Case Against George W. Bush." Although I am unashamedly a liberal, my father-in-law and the majority of my family are Catholic and conservative. Although I think that the conservative platform ultimately endorses a kind of hierarchy in which poor folks stay poor and rich folks get richer, I do see that conservatives certainly have some valid points in regards to empowering community organizations over government bureaucracies. I just wish that the people they put into power would stop cutting the government programs that would allow this to happen.
Anyway, I don't claim to fully understand the conservative position. But I will say that, for the reasons you write about, (particularly in regards to the deficit and to the swelling power of the government under The Patriot Act) I just cannot comprehend how anyone calling themselves a conservative could possibly vote for Bush!
I am always interested in talking politics with my family, but find that because they receive the majority of their news from FOX News and Rush Limbaugh, well, it's hard to introduce context and facts into the discussion. But who knows. If your article is any indication, maybe we have more in common that I previously thought. I appreciate your article because I think a reassertment of the conservative and Republican platform is very useful right now. My assumption is that doing this will reveal that the Bush Administration is neither.
Sincerely, Citizen Kay
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