Selecting Only Records From Specific Month (ASP & MSSQL)

I am having trouble coming up with the correct SELECT statement to use when I only want to select the records from a certain month. In this case, the current month. In my database all the date records are in this format:

MM/DD/YYYY HH:MMAM

I figured out what "this" month is by doing the following:

thisMonth = split(now, "/")

so thisMonth(0) will give me the numerical value for this month. In todays case, its 9.

I am then trying to select all records from my database that have their date field starting with the number 9. Here's what I'm trying:

"select hitDate from hits where hitDate like '%" & thismonth(0) & "/%/2003%' order by hitDate"

But this is not working. It keeps returning 0 results. Anyone know what i'm doing wrong, or better yet, a proper way to do what I'm trying to do?