WHAT KIND OF AMERICA ARE WE VOTING FOR?

This morning on Ancarlo Mornings (KLIF-Dallas), Darrell Ancarlo framed the campaign for his listeners in the following way: Forget the candidates. Vote for the kind of America you want.

Okay. So if you want an America that goes blasting into any country it can when it feels vulnerable, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where foreign policy is dictated by political advantage, vote for Bush.

If you want an America that rewards the rich, richly, and where the middle class bears an inordinate share of the burden of the costs of running the government (including the military), vote for Bush.

If you want an America where we are isolated because the world community fears and despises us, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where we're the only advanced country without universal health care, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where the social safety net is the next target for elimination, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where we execute kids, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where our children and grandchildren pay for our excesses today, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where the Geneva Conventions are dismissed and our military and intelligence personnel encouraged to abuse and even kill prisoners of war, thus endangering our own troops, vote for Bush.

If you want an era of unending war, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where the government tells you who to love and how, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where business and industries write legislation and the very policy that regulates them, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where a single religious faith has such influence over policy it can determine the course of action the government takes, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where wealth and connections secure even more privileges and advantages, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where the color of your skin and your national origin make you automatically suspect to police and intelligence agencies, regardless of your citizenship, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where law enforcement can invade your reading habits, your home, and your business records without notice to you and without establishing probable cause, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where desperate women are once again driven to back-alley illegal abortionists, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where the Supreme Court rules according to their political and religious affiliations rather than by strict interpretation of the Constitution, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where we'd rather spend money on prisons and punishment than on education and rehabilitation, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where business profits are more valued than clean air and water, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where business and government morph into what Eisenhower warned as "the military-industrial complex," vote for Bush.

If you want an America where citizens are punished for expressing beliefs contrary to the government's, vote for Bush.

If you want an America where the government operates in secrecy and lies to the citizenry, vote for Bush.

You get the idea.