So you think George W. Bush is not a conservative?

SOTU transcript ^ | 1/22/04

[thoughtomator]

He can certainly encourage the state legislature to impeach. Plus, there's an even bigger problem at the federal level that needs to be addressed.

[Bikers4Bush]

Read the post you replied to and try again.

[Checkers]

Great post!

Great President!

[Poohbah]

This is "Free Republic" remember? Maybe you would be more comfortable starting your own website - might I suggest some titles: "Communist Dictatorship", "Thought Police Central", "Beserkly University"... Maybe you could try that line on Jim Robinson or the Admin Moderator. Go ahead...e-mail them and see if you can shut someone up because you don't like what they have to say.

Jim Robinson did exactly that in 2000. He banished a large number of Brigadiers for advocating just what you propose.

[skip2myloo]

I would rather we impeach the five justices who upheld CFR.

[George W. Bush]

The Dems in the Senate, plus Lincoln Chaffee, Olympia Snowe, and Chuck Hagel, represent a non-conservative majority. Re-elect Bush, and put about 6 more Republicans (primarily from the open Southern seats) in the Senate, and let's see what happens in the next four years.

Please don't list Hagel in the same breath with those others.

Nebraska, despite being an all-Red state, has its little tradition of producing prairie radicals and cranks independent thinkers. Hagel fits the pattern. You might feel better if you realize that the Dims hate Hagel's junior senator, Ben Nelson, just as much as you apparently hate Hagel. Personally, I blame George Norris and William Jennings Bryant. My dad and grandfather did too.

Hagel used to be reliably rightwing when he associated more with Helms. But every now and then, when the rest of the current GOP stumbles into idiocy, he takes the proper stand on an important policy question. But even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn...

[RiflemanSharpe]

As I have said before it does not matter. I live in TX. If Bush is in danger of losing this state he has lost half the south, all the northeast and the dems have made inroads in the west. If Bush absolutely needs every possible vote in TX he has already lost the election.

[Wolfstar]

The biggest obstacle to getting more conservative bills to the President's desk is the United States Senate. The Dems and Republican moderates outnumber the conservatives by a comfortable margin. We've got a long way to go before that situation will change, if it ever does. You're right that electing more conservative representatives would help, because the House is the place where conservatives can have a very real impact on national policy.

[Southack]

"Now, back to our debate about fiscal conservatism, you seemed to avoid the fact that being a true fiscal conservative is the real litmus test."

With all due respect, I didn't avoid your "true fiscal conservative" litmus test. In fact, I pointed out that liberal, radical pro-abortion Presidential candidates such as former Governor Howard Dean would score higher on your "true fiscal conservative" test than would those conservatives among us who would sign legislative bans on abortion, sign tax cuts into law, withdraw from the U.S. - CCCP ABM treaty, kill the Kyoto Global Warming nonsense, diss the International Criminal Court, cut rubbish regulations like co2 &logging firebreak restrictions, etc.

In other words, what you are asking for, i.e. fiscal conservatism, is something that could be found just as easily in a liberal pro-abortion, anti-defense candidate as in a pro-life, pro-defense President.

So your key litmus test has nothing to do with Conservatism per se...

[looscnnn]

The gay guys that took Texas' sodomy law to the USSC.

[Ophiucus]

What other president went to Mexico and addressed the crowd with "fellow citizens of the world"?

You get globalist from that? A polite greeting - a variant that every president uses.

With your reasoning, JFK was stating his desire to bring back the Third Reich or Nixon was a Chinese agent or even worse, Reagan was working to establish the Workers Paradise!

[RiflemanSharpe]

Go third party, like myself you can not hurt Bush. But we may wake him up.

[Howlin]

If he uses an executive order to institute the illegal proposal (as a senators aid said he is planning to do)

Utter rubbish.

[George W. Bush]

Nice try. No cigar.

[Bikers4Bush]

It's only upsetting in that it doesn't belong here and does more to divide conservatives than honest disagreements about policy.

Believe me, once I log off today I won't give it a second thought.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Bush promised to run based on Education and Health issues. It seems that he kept his promise.

[riri]

He banished a large number of Brigadiers for advocating just what you propose

Actually there where and are only seven of them. They just have a variety of screen names and accounts as their disposal in an organized attempt to smear the omnipotent leader.

[Southack]

"Religious Freedom is already being assaulted by courts (while the spineless jellyfish of a GOP sits on their hands!). Ever hear of the Constitution - the exclusions clause (Art. 3, sec. 2). Congress has the authority and power to limit the courts jurisdiction on a number of issues - yet they don't do it. Why?"

Congress and its actions/inactions might be just a wee bit beyond what one can reasonable expect in scope from our President...

[Mo1]

The gay guys that took Texas' sodomy law to the USSC.

So you are saying that Bush was is favor of them?

[skip2myloo]

When I say Congress, I use the generic term meaning the whole of Congress which includes BOTH houses.