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...what you get. The party declares its stance on the issues, and its candidates had better stick to those positions or they won't get financing from the party. Politicians will always side with the majority of their party on any issue, whether it be abortion, Iraq, the Patriot Act, or raising or lowering income taxes. Gordon Levy Coarsegold, California...
...airplanes and to create a single national terrorist watch list. He wants NATO to play a larger role in Afghanistan, where he says al-Qaeda is "regrouping and strengthening," and promises to get tough with Saudi Arabia, a source of terrorist funding and extremist teachings. Kerry supports the Patriot Act but wants to strengthen some measures in it, like those targeting money laundering, and ease others that restrict civil liberties...
...plans to hire more border-patrol agents and expand biometric identification at 50 major border crossings. Rather than increase active-duty troops, Bush wants to shift forces from cold war--era outposts like Germany closer to terrorism hot spots. He wants to renew all the provisions of the USA Patriot Act. Some of the act's most controversial measures will expire...
...same, he implies, could be said for the American people before entering war in Iraq. “The word ‘patriot’ occurs naturally in the original text. The connections were there—‘patriot,’ the Patriot Act—but I didn’t want to underscore them too much,” he says. “I didn’t want to say, ‘Look here...
Furthermore, Kerry has shown a willingness to reconsider important legislation if he later finds compelling evidence against his original position. He voted for the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq, but after witnessing the enforcement of the former and the execution of the latter, he sensibly requalified his positions on both. Republicans call this “flip-flopping.” We see his ability to reassess past decisions as a substantial and important personal characteristic...