[jwalsh07]

Everything Bush has done - conservative things and not-so-conservative things - have been consistent with his 2000 campaign and message.

Exactly so. I was aware that President Bush would do all those things he campaigned on prior to voting for him. He has been a man of his word.

I can understand those who disagree with his choices but I have no sympathy for those who claim they were betrayed. It's a joke, the man has been good to his word.

While I disagree with him on immigration, excessive non-defense spending, CFR and a poor medicaid bill, he's already got my donation and he'll get my vote.

He has been great on the WOT, great on tax reduction, strongly pro life and pro family and brought honesty and decency to an office that needed it desperately.

The though of John Kerry or Howard Dean occupying the White House at this critical time in US History, vis a vis jihadists, makes me physically ill.

[k2blader]

His Medicare expansion was just about the only thing I knew about in 2000 that I disagreed with. If amnesty for illegals, excessive non-defense spending, and CFR had been on his platform back then, he'd not be President today.

[WOSG]

I can understand those who disagree with his [Bush's] choices but I have no sympathy for those who claim they were betrayed. It's a joke, the man has been good to his word.

Dittos and a reminder - what a refreshing change he is from his predecessor, who lied and broke campaign promises on a regular basis!!

[Torie]

We need to avoid the trap of continuing to defend the Ptolemaic structure of the universe, as observational data comes in by creating an ever less elegant structure of little suborbits to explain the motion of the planets, least the house of cards come down on us with us at the epicenter. Maybe Bush needs to see a serious erosion of his base, to get "sober" again about fiscal matters. When he started chatting about Mars in the context of mega-deficits, I though he may well have achieved terminal velocity.

Maybe it is time for some tough love. The bogus numbers on the drug thing quite disgust me, and I think have hurt Bush politically quite substantially, and he deserves the hurt. He is putting at risk his agenda on those matters which some of us care about most.