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The Democrat candidates all of them are so far left that I cannot even fathom having any of them in office as President.

Being a true conservative (or a true Republican, even) doesn't mean rolling over and playing dead just because our conservative/Republican President makes a proposal that conservatives think is wrong-headed (i.e., the amnesty proposal) doesn't make us any less conservative.

We have a responsibility to make suggestions that the leadership should take to heart for the betterment of the party/cause.

I have no problem with supporting the Administration on reelection. I want to see the President reelected.

But I'm not about to bare my throat in a submissive gesture just because illegal aliens are now suddenly "guest workers". If the Administration does something that I think is wrong, it's my responsibility to make certain that they know how I feel.

I trust them to do what needs to be done, but I also trust them to listen to the people as well.

Just damn.

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I have no problem with supporting the Administration on reelection. I want to see the President reelected.

I love it when you editorialize.
Good on ya, man.

If the Administration does something that I think is wrong, it's my responsibility to make certain that they know how I feel.

Yep

blindly following leaders, never daring to criticise them no matter what they do, is not being a conservative, its being a sheep.

My country, right or wrong...

Great post and straight forward. This guestworker program is a complete circumvention of citizenship, and as such, destroys its value.

It is a most deadly poison, hidden amongst enough of a conservative agenda to make a argumentative case that George Bush is a conservative. But its still an ounce of poison, aimed directly at our sovreignty and what little is left of the integrity of our borderes. George Bush is a globalist.

But I'm not about to bare my throat in a submissive gesture just because illegal aliens are now suddenly "guest workers".

I don't anyone is asking you to cave-in and march in lock-stepped silence. As someone who enthusiastically supports Bush's re-election, I will tell you that I have doubts about his immgration proposal. I support the President in spite of my doubts because I think it is foolish and immature to say that one or two issues should cause one to break from the President. I think the mature thing, as you have articulated, is to express opposition to policies one does not agree with, but to realize that there are other policies that are worth supporting, and that these tip the balance in favor of support for the President. What I see from the Bashers on FR is a strident hatred of the President over one or two issues -- not just a disagreement, but a loathing of George W. Bush over one or two things. I just don't get that perspective. And in the intensity of their loathing, I see no difference between them and the Deaniacs.