Here is a letter I sent to the Fort Worth Star Telegram.

The Democrats are running a campaign that says Americans want a change in our foreign policy and to our approach to the war on terror. I agree that I’d like to see a change. But, it doesn’t appear that the change I’d like is anything like what Democrats have in mind. I’d like to see the United States set a policy of seeking victory over the Islamic Jihadists, destroying them rather than containing them. The Democrats say they fear President Bush more than the Jihadists, and appear to want to return to the failed Carter-Clinton approach of dealing with the Jihadists with apology and appeasement. They want to treat Jihadist terrorism as a criminal matter rather than as a war. Based on their actions, they want to eliminate the measures of the Patriot Act, stopping NSA surveillance activities, and would re-impose Jamie Gorelick’s “wall” between the NSA and the CIA, and the FBI. They do want to create more government union jobs by increasing funding for “first responders” and port security (they seem not to realize that inspecting ship cargo at ports would not prevent a terrorist from destroying a port city by setting off a nuclear device as the ship sails into the harbor). They want to install the crook Alcee Hasting, who was a judge before being impeached for accepting a bribe, as the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and John Conyers, who supports Hez b’Allah, as head of the House Judiciary Committee. Conyers says he plans on starting impeachment proceedings against President Bush as soon as he takes over. This would be a waste of energy since there is no way Democrats could get to the 67 votes needed in the Senate to get a conviction, but it would distract our government and give encouragement to our enemies, whom Conyers supports.

Thus, I’ll have to “hold my nose” and vote Republican since the change the Democrats propose is worse than what Republicans are doing. I suspect that a great many Americans who want change also don’t want the Democrat’s program.