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may severely demoralize conservative voters

I'm becoming demoralized.

I also note that the threads that may be critical of President Bush seem to attract fewer and fewer Bushophiles posting in his defense. They now seem mostly to talk to themselves on such threads as "A Day in the Life..." Have you noticed that? Are they perhaps getting just a tad demoralized as well?

As conservatives we have to get past the idea that Bush is violating stated principles. He is not. Bush does not believe that America's relationship with government needs to be radically altered. He believes that government should remain the primary instrument for social and economic welfare, and that $2 trillion per year is not too much to ask of the American taxpayer.

And let's face it - right now this philosophy is the belief system of the Republican Party. No one in power is really challenging him. By 1999 the Republican Party was an empty vessel, without any new ideas or innovations among the top leadership. Their entire strategy was to wait for George W. Bush to come along and save them. Bush did, and filled that empty vessel with his own ideas. I can't blame him for that.

Anyone who is surprised by this didn't listen to Bush's campaign rhetoric or watch how he did business in Texas. Bush is not interested in cutting spending, or even in holding it steady, and he never claimed to be. He may have mouthed a few platitudes about fiscal responsibility, but he never promised to do anything responsible save cut taxes. He just quietly spends enormous amounts of taxpayer money as a matter of government policy.

This is still more evidence of the extreme disconnect that exists between the Republican leadership and the conservative grassroots that are the hands and feet of the party. Quite simply, the Republican leadership in Washington (and in state capitols across America) is very uncomfortable with the principles of the those that put them in office.

No. Maybe they just run to the bathroom and puke when they read such patronizing, masturbatory [sic] comments.

Have you noticed that

The broken glass republicans grow quieter by the day around here.

Regards

J.R.