[Howlin]

Bush is doing his damndest to alienate his base

You know, I'm getting tired of posting this, but I'm sick to death of hearing about Bush alienating his base. It's a lie.

The first result is that the Republican Party is more unified than ever before. Ninety-one percent of Republicans approve of the job President Bush is doing. In 1992, Bush's father didn't have anything like that level of support, and even the Reagan administration was split between so-called pragmatists and ideologues.

Today's Republicans not only like Bush personally, they also overwhelmingly support his policies. According to a Pew Center study, 85 percent of Republicans support the war in Iraq, 82 percent believe that pre-emptive war is justified, and 72 percent believe the U.S. is justified in holding terror suspects without trial.

His "base" is with him.

From THIS thread.

[Howlin]

The 'big tent' party

Please read 420. :-)

[Darlin']

"...I'm sick to death of hearing about Bush alienating his base. It's a lie."

I hear ya. I'm sick of it, too and equally sick of the whiners with nothing better to do than trash the president.

[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.