I've been very disappointed in President Bush. Can you make me feel better and name a few conservative things he has done since he took office.
The ban of partial-birth abortion is the only thing I can think of.
No one should ever trust a Democrat on National Security, that alone is enough to vote Republican each and every time.
The conservative base learned in '92 all too well about what a third party vote accomplishes. It gave Clinton a victory with a record low popular vote of 46%.
The majority of conservatives do not agree with the extreme right and their "Fall-on-their swords" illogic.
Pat Buchannan's massive 1% of the vote, proves that the fringe right is irrelevant and will also be that way again this election.
It will be president Bush in a "RED TIDE" landslide!
Killing terrorists and starting a mission to change the Middle East in a move that was nearly impossible to pull off politically, one that nearly the entire world was rabidly against him on, but one that was unbelievably long-overdue and will end up being one of the most world-changing moves (for the better) in history. It simply would not have ever happened had GWB not been elected President, yet it very simply means the survival of the free, Western world, probably even moreso than Churchill's stand against Naziism did. This cannot be overstated. Increases in Medicare spending are so unbelievably, incomprehensibly, ridiculously minor by comparison that if there is even a .00000001% chance that vetoing such a raise might jeapordize his re-election, that it is 100% imperative that he do so. This can be worked on later (as the privatization-increasing, Medical Savings Account provision of this bill will be later used to do).
Beyond this, Bush has nominated over 100 federal court judges that will limit legalized abortion, free up restrictions on churches, businesses, and a wide range of individual liberties. He has cut taxes three times leading to not only more money in Americans' pockets but a rapid boom in their 401ks and stock portfolios that they simply would not have had otherwise. He has played a huge role, as the most powerful person in the world, in advancing and continuing an on-going global boom in Christianity, most specifically in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the U.S. There are increasingly more reports from China of a boom in Christianity absolutely un-paralleled save for possibly within the 2nd Century Roman Empire. This is a boom spreading to all levels of the Chinese hierarchy that is already leading to more freedoms for Christians in China (though China has a long way to go of course) and threatening to radically change a government ruling over 1.6 billion human beings that has been a serious enemy of the US and American interests for over half a century and killed over 40,000,000 human beings in the span of a few years just a few decades ago. And the 70 million Chinese Christians (as well as persecuted Africans, Cubans, freedom-loving Arabs, and dozens of millions of pro-US people being oppressed around the world) believe GWB is something just short of divine. (Try living as a Christian trapped inside a 3rd world tyranny and this might make more sense, if it doesn't already.) This is an unrivaled build up of support for American interests (i.e. its safety, success, etc.) from people that will very likely have a huge say in America's well-being (and the well-being of its allies) in the future.
Bush has also prevented a further increase in restrictions on gun owners (besides the judges of his that will be fighting to roll back restrictions on them). He has repeatedly battled and spoken out against the teachers' unions and labor unions to protect American children trapped in federally-hijacked schools and workers trapped in union-hijacked industries, respectively. He has increased the GOP's control at the Congressional and Senate levels, threatening to give conservatives more power to actually enact things Bush has wished to do but has been unable to do with a sharply-divided Congress and electorate, after only a couple more elections. He has strongly condemned the sweeping encroachment for support of the destruction of marriage within American courts and with another term will continue to appoint judges to work to keep this movement from spreading.
This list could go on for days. It is simply mind-boggling to think that even a handful of Americans calling themselves "conservative" would rather just let Howard Dean take his chances against George W. Bush without their support. I thank God that polls show that the malcontents at FR pretending to be "conservatives" (not saying you are of this group, of course) are very small in number actually. I know from personal experience combined with my travels as well as those of hundreds of friends of mine that the thanks to God for GWB from Chinese Christians, Cuban Christians, and most American Christians, makes mine look like a mere joke. For most of the first two groups, his re-election is literally a matter of life or death for their Earthly lives, and for the 3rd group, it's only slightly less so, thanks to being fortunate enough to already live in freedom. Freedom that GWB is currently sacrificing valuable years of his life to spread. (Consider that this was a guy that had absolutely no desire to do this (his wife and daughters even less so) and was perfectly content to own his baseball team and relax at the games every night for the rest of his life while raising his family in relative privacy, just a few years ago; yet he consented to getting into politics after years of prodding and begging from thousands of personal contacts of his (I am from Dallas and know many of these men and women); now he and his immediate family instead live lives completely laid bare to the harassment, mockery, vitriol, utter hatred, constant inspection, and complete evil of many of their now sworn enemies, both home and abroad).
So you say, "I've been very disappointed in President Bush."
I haven't.