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"OMG, Republicans taking issue with GW? Article being posted on FR? The self appointed Bbots and thought monitors won't be long in coming to this thread.
After all isn't it a sacrilege to criticize GW on FR?"

It sure is! Check out this thread, where I am repeatedly attacked for stating that we should expect Republicans to uphold conservative principles, and if they will not, we should withhold our votes until they toe the line on subjects like illegal immigration.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076096/posts

It's very entertaining. Some waster named Agamemnon calls me, among other choice epithets, a "Judas in support hose." It's all very amusing. He's scared to death that if we disaffected Republicans write in Tom Tancredo instead, that we might get Kerry. I say, if Bush is gonna sell us out on important issues like immigration, what's the difference who we get?

Thanks for the link Henrietta, but I didn't go to it. I have been around here for quite some time and have watched the forum degenerate from principled conservatives to lock step, mindless Republican Party shills.

What the Bbots don't realize is that it is possible to state conservative opinions, critical of the Administration and the Party while still voting GOP, especially given the choice.

There seem to be far too many around here that seem to have the only principle the GOP has these days.

Win at any cost, even if it means betraying both your principles and those of your supporters. They (the bots) really don't understand that they do their party and the conservative movement more harm by flaming fellow conservatives than help.

But, heck after all it is only an Internet Forum. Remarkably , one time a significant force, IMHO, of the conservative movement, but lately relegated to "just another forum". Too many people have taken themselves way to seriously, seeing their screed "in the lights" (in print - on line).

I should have gone to the thread first. There is one great difference between us. Where we both have apparently the same problems with GW, I will still vote for him, where you have stated you won't.

The best line in the article on that other thread is this:

"In any case, conservatives could have hoped for much more in a Washington where Republicans control both the White House and Congress. Having said all that, I intend to do whatever I can to reelect President Bush. The reason is simple. The alternative is unthinkable."

Your vote is your own and I don't even want to suggest how you should cast it. But my vote will go the "Dem Lite" (your phrase describing Bush) and in no way will give aid or comfort to any of the Dem Heavies.