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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[Howlin]

There is too much that needs to be done to allow these things to distract or divert us.

OMG, I hate it when you do that.

Excellent, excellent post!

[Howlin]

FR is a grassroots conservative website according to the opening page - didn't see it being a branch of the RNC.

The owner of this site is on record supporting the reelection of George W. Bush AND all the Republicans we can get in office.

[NewLand]

That post is a TOTAL waste of space...no explanation, no editorial, no details...just a list. SO WHAT!

You have a clear pattern of using data in a meaningless way...most FReepers and Lurkers see straight thru that...especially equating Bush and Reagan with Clinton and Carter.

bye bye!

[auboy]

Demolition is easier than construction. President Bush is slowly rebuilding what the Clintons destroyed. He is not going to ignore major problems facing this nation, and pass them on to future Presidents and generations.

The "I want my way and I want it now" crowd would rather hurl stones than pick up a hammer.

[EternalVigilance]

LMAO...

I have to do that occasionally just to get under your skin!

;-)

[Howlin]

How about "The Perpetually Pissed Off?"

[Nanodik]

Are you a citizen? If you immigrated here from Canada why did you do it if the GOVERNMENT is so meddlesome?

To save you from yourselves, that is why. I suppose the next reply is going to be the proverbial "US: Love it or Leave it!". My God but you are a mental giant. Let me tell you something that idiots who had the good fortune to be born in this country don't understand: The US is not a govt, it is not an army, it is not a flag or a memorial on the mall in DC. The US is the incarnation of the great liberal thinkers of the 18th century. Read the friggin Declaration of Independence. Read the Constitution. Read the federalist papers. That is the US. Bush is just another 2 bit political who is not worthy to even dream of holding that same office that Washington once took up. The US was created by great men. Now it is oppressed by an entire class of political whores. I hope that one day I might live in a country as it was promised to us by our forefathers.

[Constantine XIII]

Bingo, heck, considering he ran as a middle-of-the-road moderate, we got a great deal for W.

The number of things he's done right outnumber the things done wrong by at least an order of magnitude. No joke. There is a list around here somewhere of all the things he's done right that could reach to the moon.

[Howlin]

Look what Luis said last night:

To: Texasforever

What's funny about these people is their insistence on calling themselves "the base".

Last I checked, the base of anything could not possibly be it's narrowest point.

80 posted on 01/12/2004 11:49:58 PM EST by Luis Gonzalez (The Gift Is To See The Trout.)

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I guess it looks something like this, eh?

[Luis Gonzalez]

What's funny about these people is their insistence on calling themselves "the base".

Last I checked, the base of anything could not possibly be it's narrowest point.

[Howlin]

You did that just for me?

Somehow I doubt it.

[sinkspur]

But this does no good if we are unwilling to seal the border to the south which your beloved 2 party system is too inbred with other interest to do anything about.

And your Libertarian Party would?

[Constantine XIII]

This country will always have a two party system. One or both of those partys might change in the future, but there will always be two. Our system forces this to happen. It is the direct result of winner take all elections.

It appears to help keep politicians moderate, preventing wingnuts from either end of the spectrum fron getting anywhere near the levers of power, unlike multi-party parliamentarly systems like Germany or (gasp!) France.

[Texasforever]

To save you from yourselves, that is why. I suppose the next reply is going to be the proverbial "US: Love it or Leave it!". My God but you are a mental giant.

Take a breath man. Welcome to the country. It is just puzzling that you would leave a country that mirrors your views on US foreign policy to come to this God-forsaken wasteland we call the United States. I will say this we sure as hell don't need Canadians "saving" us from ourselves. Now carry on with your pitiful efforts of telling US citizens what is wrong with our government. You should stick to doing it anonymously though, Canadians preaching to us in person tends to become very problematic for the Canadian..Ex or not

[Kevin Curry]

The wise course of action is to get out in front of the problem instead of wallowing in existing failures. Bush, on balance, is a failure. I am looking for a better choice in 2008. 2004 is a lost cause.

I won't vote for Bush in 2004; I'll just leave that part of the ballot blank. I will punch the rest of my ballot. I will work hard to get conservative legislators elected and re-elected this time round (I have made donations and have offered to assist in House seat camapign). I believe it is a higher prority at this point to get six to eight more Republican senators elected than to worry about whether Bush will make it.

While the rest of you continue to enable Bush in his Clinton impersonation, others of us will work hard to get a goood conservative Republican candidate ready for a presidential run in 2008.

[NewLand]

"We must think of a name for them, now that they have truly lost their minds, and merged!"

We could be nice and call them the "Dean Republicans" (opposite of the Reagan Democrats) or we could call them "Pink Pussycats" (opposite of the "Blue Dog" Democrats).

How about "YankeeCans" in honor of the "DixieCrats"?

How about calling them 'late for supper'?

[EternalVigilance]

Heh.

Yeah, you're right. I said what I said because that is what I believe to be the right course for conservatives to take at this particular point in our nation's history.

The fate of the republic is in our hands.

[JoeSchem]

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.

Another possibility is that you're behaving so outrageously stupid that everyone agrees that you're a blithering idiot. Sort of like what happened to Gerald Ford in the 1980 presidential debates, when he claimed that there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

[auboy]

A voice of reason in the deluge bump! Insightful post, EV.

[EternalVigilance]

This country will always have a two party system. One or both of those partys might change in the future, but there will always be two. Our system forces this to happen. It is the direct result of winner take all elections.

Excellent analysis.

[NewLand]

"The fate of the republic is in our hands."

Naive idealogues have no sense of that. None. Zero. On either side, mind you. These people are not much different than the Deaniacs.