Just to set the record straight, because I have been pretty hard on the prez, and his advisors lately:
I am not anti-Bush43, but I see many things that have been done or talked about that seem designed to appeal to the middle, and work in concert with GOTV and the 72 Hour Campaign. I am sure that I am not the only one here on FR that has some friends who are "Much More" conservative than we are. I ran into several of them last week at the Heritage Club meeting, and more than a few at CPAC in Washington in January who are not voting for B/C'04 because they have abandoned the normal Republican, certainly Conservative rules of smaller government, lower spending, support of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, (Campaign Finance Reform, Medicare Pill Bill, No Child Left Behind,((Why is the Fed Gov;t messing around in education)), the Immigration Reform Proposal, AIDS money to Africa, a lot of it etc, etc, etc.......).
I have been trying to point out to B/C'04 that this election, which at one time looked like a slam dunk, could be in jeopardy because they are alienating their support base, for no good reason. People who didn't vote for GWB the last time are not going to vote for him this time because of ill-conceived programs which appear to pander to speacial interest groups on the other side of the aisle.
They may be hateful, they may be mean, they may be conniving, BUT THEY ARE NOT STUPID, at least not all the time.
I still ask the question: When are we going to get back to a Conservative agenda, rather than looking like "Dem Lite"?
A fitting topic for a few hours over a few beers.
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