[FairOpinion]

"The White House is used to being attacked by Democrats, but it came as something of a shock when fellow Republicans broke ranks over growth in government spending, hurting Bush at a time when his job approval numbers were already falling. "

Kerry, Edwards and Terry McAuliffe are very grateful! The Dems couldn't win in November without help from conservatives -- help, which is apparently is on its way. Conservatives seem more intent on defeating Bush, than the leftist Democrats.

[hosepipe]

[ Bush reaches out to conservatives to quell revolt ]

He'd better hurry hes quickly becomeing a midget..
Would I vote a midget.?....... probably..

[tubavil]

Dolts. Try jobs, the economy, and illegals.
Spending is way down the list.

[Tempest]

bump, for later reading.

[Sabertooth]

Kerry, Edwards and Terry McAuliffe are very grateful! The Dems couldn't win in November without help from conservatives -- help, which is apparently is on its way. Conservatives seem more intent on defeating Bush, than the leftist Democrats.

Please.

You've been warned for years, and President Bush has been warned for years, that he was cutting too far to the Left on too many issues and alienating too many constituencies. You and he ignored the warnings, and were not particularly wise in doing so.

Now you're bitter and hissing that the warnings may come to pass.

The "where else are they gonna go" strategy was always a vote-loser, but you jumped on that bandwagon, and you now have no one but yourself to blame for your misjudgement.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Bush reaches out to conservatives to quell revolt

President Bush should not have to do any kind of conservative outreach. All he has to do is do the job he was elected to do and uphold the oath of office he was sworn to uphold. He does that and we re-elect him. He doesn't do that, he gambles on his future and the freedoms of America's citizens.

If Bush loses, he has nobody to blame but himself. He should have learned the lessons of his father.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Some of you have some very good points for and against G.W.B. But you all have to remember 1 thing the system of Govrnment we have can be fixed by us...... If GW is feeling the pressure now he knows something is in the mix thats not good for him or the country things will change hes been doing the same things clinton was doing because thats what were used to seeing [ever try to change the direction of the water in your toilet when you flush ?] Sometimes the brush just goes with the flow !

Electing a Democrat president is going to destroy the fiber of this country sovereignty as we know it will be rendered mute and irrelivant any dem will tell you the UN is better for our country than our own form of government so when your guns are gone and your beer is outlawed when you find the simplest pleasures in life to be illegal under world court law sit back and think of just how really bad it was under G.W.B. because once you vote you cnat take that back and once you give the country back over to the dems youll never have the country you want your children to live in ! one of freedom and sovereignty.

[whd23]

This is analogous to a wife-beater showing up at the hospital with flowers and a promise never to do it again....

[BraveMan]

You're being wooed. Ain't courtship grand?

[Little Ray]

Well, Kerry, Edwards, Hitlary, Nadir, OR Bush, conservatives apparently are going to lose, whoever wins...

[nickcarraway]

During primary time, the candidate from each party is supposed to energize his base, then work back towards the independent voters. The Democrats have been busy playing to their base, but Bush has been doing them a favor, by not shoring up his base. This isn't anything new, it's a reality of politics for decades, if not longer. If Bush doesn't do it, he has no one to blame but himself and his team. That's the way presidential elections work.

[NittanyLion]

Apparently the White House has better sense than many posters on this site (Thank God). Where the posters' standard response is to alternately tell conservatives their vote doesn't matter and then threaten to hold them responsible for a potential Bush loss, the White House appears to be taking a more mature view of the situation.

Bottom line: this proves that conservatives have the power to influence politicians when they're willing to hold them accountable for their actions. It also proves that the White House realizes this election cannot be won without holding onto the conservative base.

[Paulus Invictus]

And what did he promise about the Illegal Immigrant scandal? It's called amnesty in certain conservative circles. May we have the envelope please? And his answer is....???? He might even win the Calipornia vote if he does something about the illegals and soon.

[LandofLincoln]

They are ALL the same. Show me a career politician who is even slightly different from any other career politician.

They have become a House of Lords, with no House of Commons in sight. We are nearing the end of the Republic.

[N3WBI3]

A sucker punch from a friend hurst more than a blow from an enemy...

[Doohickey]

...but it came as something of a shock when fellow Republicans broke ranks over growth in government spending...

Imagine. Republicans upset over growth in government spending. Scandalous!

[winker]

The Hot Button is Illegal Immigration; Push that button & Take that away permanetly and watch what happens! We will wait till Hell! freezes over!

[MissAmericanPie]

That is not a FairOpinion. Republicans and conservatives are tired of nothing being delivered election after election by chicken little republican politicians. Did they think it could just go on forever with no backlash?

Evidently so, given the sneering, "Where else are they gonna go". Conservatives are not the stay on the plantation kind, when there is nothing on that plantation they are interested in. Bush has worked against every conservative principle he could lay his pen to. Now, with the clock striking midnight, we are to believe that he just now noticed the discontent?

Why don't you lay the blame where it belongs? It doesn't lay with a fed up base who see their votes and efforts as futile in a liberal onslaught delivered by a Republican president, congress, and senate.

[Drago]

Uh-Oh...it is the Smokey Back Room...how many Freepers even know it exists? 10%??? Or more???

[ETERNAL WARMING]

You address it by actions," he added.

Indeed.

Forbes isn't addressing the biggest issue with Conservatives....JOBS FOR AMERICANS VS. FREE TRADE, OUTSOURCING AND IMPORTATION OF CHEAP LABOR. Yes, we're angry about the out of control spending, but we're even madder about what's happening with outsourcing, the illegal alien onslaught, the cost to taxpayers to fund that cheap labor and the importation of half of India to take the few good paying jobs that remain.

This article is a bait and switch. Won't work, either.