Eberle Uses Web to Spread GOP Story; Bobby Eberle and GOPUSA circulate the conservative message throughout cyberspace with a blend of news and commentary that explains important policy issues

0 Comments | Insight on the News, March 1, 2004

What I really like to do is talk policy discuss the issues and try to help others understand them. And so, during the summer, we suffered a few growing pains with the company, completely restructured, and by September 2000 the GOPUSA that people know now as an Internet news/information/commentary company was born.

Q: You say you like to talk policy. What's big on your agenda right now?

A: Homeland security, defense and the economy. Those are going to be the big issues going into the election. It's going to be interesting as we get closer to November. If the economy continues the way it is going, then pretty much homeland security and foreign relations are going to be the main issues with the war in Iraq on everyone's mind.

I think the Democrats were counting on having the economy as an issue and may continue to try to make it one. But with the markets going up, employment and growth going up, all the indicators are pointing in the right direction, and it is going to be hard for the Democrats to point to authentic data and claim things are going in the wrong direction.

Q: You're comfortable with the tax cuts then?

A: Absolutely. The numbers speak for themselves. Without raising taxes or keeping them the same, but by actually lowering taxes, we're getting a complete turnaround in the economy from where we were in the fourth quarter of 2000 when the Clinton recession began.

And I think people embrace the Bush idea that if you don't make certain tax cuts permanent you're eventually going to have a tax increase, and if the eventual Democratic nominee goes into the debate and says, "Yes, that's what I'm for, tax increases, because I'm against making tax cuts permanent," then it's not going to fly with the American people.

Q: Is President George W. Bush doing a good job with homeland security?

A: Yes, I think they're doing a good job. The president was put in a very difficult situation on Sept. 11. On that day I was here in Washington and saw [American Airlines] Flight 77 fly right over my head and crash into the Pentagon. I saw it firsthand, so I am very sensitive on that issue. And I think that the way things have progressed, going after the Taliban, after al-Qaeda, going after Iraq, the president has shown the world that we're serious. Yes, we do need to have a foreign policy that is capable of engaging both American diplomacy and American military authority. I think Bush does just that.

The mass media have overlooked or ignored the years and years of negotiations in which the U.S. went along with the U.N. on Iraq, trying to get Saddam [Hussein] to back away from his outrages and cruelties. They have pretended not to see the many ways in which the Bush administration has been following a diplomatic course of action.

You can point to North Korea and see how we brought in other nations to help end a potential nuclear threat. We've had all the nations in the region talking with North Korea to try to convince Supreme Leader Kim [Jong Il] that the nuclear path on which he has embarked is a dangerous one. So deftly was this played that, in recent days, the North Koreans have said they will respond to U.S. recommendations concerning nuclear disarmament. We shall see.