Conservatives Riled Over Bush Activities

Foxnews ^ | Tuesday, January 27, 2004 | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

[ricks_place]

WASHINGTON - While Democrats have called President Bush the most conservative president in history, conservative support is starting to crack among those who say the president has not moved far enough to the right.

"There is a growing grumbling, a measure, if you will, of unhappiness with domestic policies," said Free Republic Network chairwoman Elizabeth Sheld. It 's been building to the point where people are talking out, people are a little fidgety."

[11th Earl of Mar]

Free Republic Network chairwoman Elizabeth Sheld.

So.... What is her screen name?

[OldFriend]

They can stay home and practice saying President Kerry.

[alphadog]

"[Bush] has been sacrificing the conservatives to get to the middle,"

To get to the middle he has to move RIGHT...IMHO

[Mr. Mojo]

While Democrats have called President Bush the most conservative president in history

Wow. What kind of mental gymnastics is required to come to that conclusion?

[ricks_place]

They can stay home and practice saying President Kerry.

The most critical job of the President is the prosecution of the war on terror. If giving grannie a few meds helps guarantee President Bush re-election, it is a small price to pay. Any of the pretenders would be disaster for the nation.

[marty60]

This whole election process reminds me of Khrushevs words to Nixon. We will not have to go to war with you, we will defeat you from within. We have not only had Fox infiltrated by the fascist/commie/evil dums, but now we have phoney repubs, bad mouthing Bush. The one thing they all have in common is their hatred for the United States and Bush for trying to protect it.

[Az Joe]

BUSH:

Right on the War
Right on Taxes
Right on Abortion
Right on Judicial Restraint
Right on the Second Amendment
Right on Social Security Privatization
Right on State's Rights.

KERRY:

Wrong on the War, abortion, taxes, judicial restraint, 2nd amendment, social security, stat'es rights.

I have never had an easier choice to make!

[IronJack]

That would be Diotima.

[unsycophant]

Very interesting.

[Orangedog]

Right on the Second Amendment

Let's wait and see what he does when the extension of the assault weapons ban, attached to a "must-pass" spending bill, hits his desk this fall. If he signs that, I can't vote for him again. I can't vote for Kerry either. Let's hope he doesn't listen to Karl Rove on that one.

[inquest]

...conservative support is starting to crack among those who say the president has not moved far enough to the right.

"Far enough"? "At all" would be an improvement.

[ricks_place]

Free Republic Network chairwoman Elizabeth Sheld.
So.... What is her screen name?

It seems the group is Free Republic Network and not Free Republic.

The people quoted belong to that organization and represent themself as Freepers. Robert Hahn is there man in Alexandria, VA. Could that be the fellow from American Enterprise Institute?

[Az Joe]

So you would vote to take a vote away from Bush. Makes less than no sense to me.

[Orangedog]

If he signs a gun control bill, Clinton's gun control bill no less, I cannot vote for him again.

[Russ]

I believe you need to find another reason not to vote for Bush because(IMHO) there is no way he will sign any gun control bill in an election year. Talk about political suicide! He would alienate his pro-gun supporters and the gun control crowd would never vote for him no matter what he did. Nope, can't see it happening...

[unsycophant]

Give it a rest, inquest.

[inquest]

Not likely anytime soon. That might be a bit too sycophantic for me.

[Orangedog]

He has already said that he will sign it when it hits his desk. Tom DeLay can only keep it from getting there if it is not attached to a must pass spending bill. If he listens to Karl Rove on this one, he will be a one term president. I WANT to be able to vote for him again this November, but if he signs Clinton's gun control bill, I cannot and will not vote for him. I won't vote for the dem either. If that means throwing my vote away on a 3rd party candidate or leaving that space blank on the ballot, so be it. Bush's advisers need to take a good, hard look at the election results from 2000 before pissing of the 2nd Amendment vote. No matter what they are telling him, he can't depend on the soccer moms to get him a 2nd term.

[Stultis]

While Democrats have called President Bush the most conservative president in history

Wow. What kind of mental gymnastics is required to come to that conclusion?

No mental gymnastics required, just the driving force of HATRED. The assertion of extremism is merely an expression of this hatred. Interestingly those Presidents that have been most hated have often been among the more moderate. Somehow I don't think this is entirely coincidental, but I'm not sure exactly why it is.

Presidents most hated by the opposition, in addition to Dubya, have included Lincoln, FDR, Nixon and Clinton. (If I were a better historian I might be able to give a longer list.) Excepting maybe FDR, all were notably more moderate than the contemporary mainstream of their political parties.

Nixon, for instance, enacted huge portions of the liberal agenda (e.g. creation of OSHA, the EPA, the first widespread institution of affirmative action for federal contracts and hiring), was every bit as much of a liberal Keynesian in his economic policy as Jimmy Carter, and advocated and pursued "detente" with the Soviets. Nevertheless liberals hated him with a searing passion and declared him an extremist. Clinton (however opportunistically poll driven) pushed through NAFTA, signed welfare reform, and generally ignored or undermined the interests of his party or their constituents whenever it suited his personal electoral interests or power.