Conservatives Should Support the President Now and in November Because…

Jewish World Review, January ^ | January 13, 2004 | Martha Zoller

[quidnunc]

…They Asked for His Kind of Leadership

You hear it in the coffee shops all over the "red areas" of the map. Everyone knows that is where the real politics is discussed in America. Conservatives are asking themselves, "What was the President thinking?" They might be talking about No Child Left Behind, or steel tariffs or the signing of many less than conservative bills.

In the coffee shops in the "blue areas," liberals don't sit around much. They are too angry and busy to stop for a while but many are thinking that President Bush is the most conservative president in years, since "oh, my God, Reagan," and he must be stopped.

Both of these assessments cannot be true and after spending years looking at politics, I took my first serious stand on a candidate in 1968 at the tender age of 9, if both sides are mad at you, you are probably on the right track. So why should conservatives and moderates support the President, now on issues and later this year at the ballot box?

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Based on the history of this President, we better not count him out till we see how things unfold. He is what conservatives asked for in a President. He cut taxes, got our economy going again and lives and breathes the safety of this country and the people in it. When it is all said and done, George W. Bush does what he believes is right for the American people and he is willing to stand on his record in November.

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[fightu4it]

I wish every one of these intellectual midgets who delight in giving George Bush a hard time would do this little exercise.

Tomorrow morning when you wake up and grab a cup of coffee and turn on the news channel, pretend it's the morning of 11th of September 2001. Pretend that, of the three planes involved,one had successfully hit and destroyed the White House while the other two each had hit and destroyed seperate wings of the Capitol Building.

It's not too much to imagine. It could have very easily occured.

Now, dammit, you understand what motivates your President!

[Dane]

and if I remember correctly he had a senate for maybe half of his eight years.

Six of those 8 years(80-86). In 87 he nominated Bork and Kennedy borked him.

[sinkspur]

We like Bush because he's a decent man and a strong wartime leader. If he'd just exert the same principles in his domestic policies there wouldn't be any of this beef here on FR. Get a clue!

Sorry. I don't believe you. You've been trashing Bush since he was inaugurated. You knew good and well that Bush was not a screaming right-winger; he's largely done what he said he was going to do.

You talk about principles when you trash a president who's doing exactly what he said he would do?

[Leatherneck_MT]

"So what is the alternative my friends? A Democrat who is going to tax you to death, sell our national security to the UN and Europe. Please think very hard about this."

Believe me, I would love an alternative.

But if someone (us) doesn't teach the RNC that they CANNOT take us for granted, then this is all we will ever get. They will trot us out for our vote on Election day and then run right back to the cat box to get dirty with the Dems.

To hell with that and to hell with them.

[ShadowDancer]

Now, dammit, you understand what motivates your President!

No, we don't. Not always.

[mr.pink]

Have fun with a Dean, Clark, or Gephardt as the Commander in Chief with a hot line to the UN to get Kofi's permission.

Yeah...that's scarey. A Dem President dedicated to Nation Building as opposed to a Republican President dedicated to Nation Building.

How is a liberal Dem foreign policy worse than a neo con Rep foreign policy? There's not much difference between the two domestically?

[Leatherneck_MT]

His supporters, within this forum and without. They have this whacked mentality, nearly to a person, where they savage anyone who disagrees with their precious "with us or against us" semi-god. You can't even have a converstation with them.

I would never vote for a Dem, but I won't throw my lot in with a bunch of demented, unintelligent personality cultist tards.


Amen brother, these jackasses have done more to drive me away from Bush than they have to make me stick behind him.

Call me an idiot if you want to, but you'll need this idiot's vote on Election day. Keep up your name calling and the whitehouse will be Democratic again in the not too distant future.

[Dane]

But if someone (us) doesn't teach the RNC that they CANNOT take us for granted, then this is all we will ever get.

I guess you would rather be steamrolled over by the DNC then.

[cardinal4]

Unbelievable. Just plain unbelievable some of the posts on this thread. ITS A PLAN! NOT A LAW!! Kill it in the legislature! I cant believe anyone who calls them self a conservative would even consider letting one of those nine loons in! But I guess the saying is right; politics makes for some strange bedfellows. We have people here claiming to be Conservatives allying themselves with hardcore liberals over this. Because thats what you are doing when you use your vote as weapon. And thses same people will be ranting and raving when Hillary makes healthcare policy and her husband is appointed SECSTATE...

[Sofa King]

"Nice. Im not willing to turn this country over to Dean. Im sorry you are. But I understand it; anyone who reply the way you did to me is the type Dean wants."

You're an idiot who can only respond to criticism by accusing people of wanting to turn the country over to Dean. No wonder you like Howlin.

[WhatHappenedtoAmerica]

You are definitely wrong. I not only voted for Bush in 2000, I flew to Nashville to Freep Gore's HQ. I also promised I would be at the inauguration - either to protest Gore or celebrate Bush. I was there celebrating in the rain.


Now, however, I have called the White House, my Senators and Congressmen to tell them I will not vote Republican this election. They have been given a unique opportunity - an all Republican government and have sold us out.


Most of the good Bush has done can be easily undone. The bad is going to be difficult if not impossible to undo. I am referring to "campaign finance reform,' (violation of the first amendment), medicare reform (new entitlement), and most of all illegal alien amnesty plus just plainly not enforcing our borders. This administration is cheapening American citizenship. How long will it be before many Americans are unwilling to risk death by serving their country? What will they be risking death for?


I've served and I tell you I don't think I would join today.

[Leatherneck_MT]

More viable than what?

We have an apple running against an applie

Sitting at home won't make a difference in that case.

[quidnunc]

Nanodik wrote: (The far-left lunatic fringe vote against Bush isn't going to amount to a pinch of sCENSOREDt) You are correct. It is the far-right vote that will do him in.

The far-right cranks are going to amount to even a smaller pinch of sCENSOREDt than the loony leftists.

[Eris]

That's where leadership comes in.

[cardinal4]

You're an idiot who can only respond to criticism by accusing people of wanting to turn the country over to Dean. No wonder you like Howlin.

Im sorry you had to resort to namecalling, have a nice day.

[mr.pink]

Who did Bush and the RNC turn to when Gore and the Rats tried to hijack the Presidency?

James Baker. ;o)

[Dane]

I would never vote for a Dem, but I won't throw my lot in with a bunch of demented, unintelligent personality cultist tards.

Why? You do that already by giving a defacto vote to the demos.

[Leatherneck_MT]

I won't be steamrolled by either party. I also will not be taken for granted.

[AAABEST]

I haven't gone out of my way to ignore you. I actually happen to like you when we're not talking about this one subject.

You're entitled to your opinion, even if it's wrong. You don't have to be so damn ugly about it.

I know that you feel differently, but to me he's done some very ugly and selfish things that my descendents will pay dearly for.

I almost was arrested for GW in 2000 and I fought a war for the country he's now plundering. We're just see things from completely different perspectives is all.

[Sofa King]

It really saddens me when people like you are unable to grasp the irony of their own statements.