Message from College Republicans

Democrats want you to vote this Tuesday entirely based on your opinion of President Bush. Mailing after mailing, TV ad after TV ad and speech after speech the Democrats have attempted to make every Republican candidate look like Bush's ally and therefore, according to them, an enemy of the people.

Take Lynn Swann, who is running for governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as an example. President Bush helped him fundraise by speaking at a campaign event, and now Democrats have called them "buddies" and urge you not to vote for Swann because of 1) the war in Iraq, 2) the federal deficit and 3) corruption in Washington. Friends, do not fall into the Democrats' trap. A governor has nothing to do with anything that goes on in Washington, nor is Swann a friend of Bush. Do not let the Democrats insult your intelligence and oversimplify this election.

Instead, vote based on the ideas and solutions candidates are proposing to fix our nation's problems. Specifically, do the Democrats have any?

Did you see Bob Casey come to speak on campus this past Wednesday? Did you hear him talk about one thing he plans on doing when he gets in office? No, really, just one thing? Nope. We sure didn't. Look, we all know that it's easy to "Bush bash." The Democrats have that down. What's hard is finding solutions to existing problems that will move our country forward.

Ask yourself: Do the Democrats have any solutions for your own prioritized issues?

What will a Democratic Congress look like if you elect it to office this Tuesday? Democratic control will guarantee: partisan hearings that will politicize every aspect of Iraq at the taxpayers' expense; amnesty for illegal aliens (those most likely to require public assistance expenditures); tax increases; and an increased danger of a terrorist attack with the defeat of the terrorist-surveillance program. They will continue to tell you that everything is wrong in Iraq and have no ideas, and, consequently, no actionable plan to fix it.

Republican control will ensure: the extension of tax cuts, which took us from a recession following the dot-com bust to the strong economy we have today; sealing our border and fixing our immigration system to encourage legal immigration and prevent a wave of more undocumented, non-tax-paying and Spanish-education-demanding illegal immigrants; a strategy for Iraq that involves effective benchmarks and a responsible plan that does not involve the words "cut" or "run;" and targeted measures to ensure that a grand attack never occurs on American soil again. Ask yourself: Do you feel safer as an American? Why do you think there has not been a terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11?

Rick Santorum and Lynn Swann represent the positive vision of the GOP and, most importantly, possess an impassioned and proven desire to effect change with efficiency. Their opponents, Bob Casey and Ed Rendell, are too mired in their party's irresponsible and inefficient political agenda to have a documented vision of their own.

Our nation's leadership is not perfect, and real issues do exist. The Penn College Republicans urge you to vote for the party that will do more than identify these problems - vote Republican for the only plan to fix them.

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