[Lunatic Fringe]

You so-called "conservatives" better be ready to set aside your threats of staying home on election day... this is not the time to stand by on just one or two principles, like "budget deficits" or "education spending."

We are at war, and the only thing standing between us and victory is John F'ing Kerry. You need to think of the greater good... politics is the art of mixing principles with compromise. We won't get 100% of everything we want. Remember your government lessons on Majority Rule vs. Minority Rights- it's a lesson George W. Bush seems to remember well.

We need to be energized on election day, and give our President 4 more years.

[Kudsman]

We won't get 100% of everything we want.

Getting pretty sick of seeing this cop out too. Partial Birth ban was passed by previous Congress, so his claim to that is a little weakened in my eyes. He did the right thing tho so it weighs as extra credit. As for the rest, an argument could be made on the strength of the domestic negatives outweighing the domestic positives.

I am still intending to pull the GWB lever, but he has got my attention.

[FairOpinion]

Exactly.

And if these so-called conservatives don't want to listen to you or I or other sensible people like us, they should listen to Alan Keyes, whose conservative credentials are beyond doubt.

"KEYES: Oh, I sure do--and I wouldn't want to give the impression that I don't have other problems with this administration on some areas where I think that the president has fallen short of the kinds of things that I really think are needed in some areas.

But I also wouldn't want to give the impression that I think that anything can be more decisive for the American people right now than the question of our national survival in the face of the most insidious threat this nation has ever faced.

In the face of that, I think a lot of us are going to be putting our other issues behind those issues that have to do with the survival of this nation in wartime."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1071872/posts

[LonghornFreeper]

I am voting for Bush this November also, but I am just curious, exactly what would a Republican (not Bush specifically, this is a hypothetical question) have to do to not get your vote? I am voting for Bush pretty much only on foreign policy issues. Thinking through it, he really might as well be a Democrat as far as most domestic issues are concerned. In fact, I can't think of very many major issues where he has really stepped up to the plate and taken a strong stand, with the exception of stem cell research and a small tax cut. There may be a couple others I am not thinking of right now, but he has dropped the ball on so many others, like illegal immigration, gun control, federal spending, farming, etc. I am not trying to provoke you, I am honestly asking what it would take for you to no longer support someone who calls themself a Republican.