Conservatives Contemplate Electoral Hari-kiri

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 2/27/04 | Michael Reagan

[kattracks]

President Bush fired back at his Democratic critics Monday night. After being a sitting duck for the slings and arrows fired at him by the “Hate Bush Brigade”, the White House says the President plans to go on the offensive.

It’s about time. We need to see a tough, straight-talking, Texas-style George Bush hammering away at his detractors. He also needs to reach out to his conservative base and remind them of what’s at stake in this election, because he has a problem with a lot of them.

In recent weeks my conservative listeners have been talking about the same things Kerry and Edwards have been talking about. They’re talking about jobs even though the unemployment rate is only 5.6 percent. They’re talking about outsourcing, they’re talking about amnesty for illegal aliens – these are the things that people who listen to talk radio are concerned about.

Their reaction to the President’s handling of these issues should be a warning sign for the President. Conservatives are calling my show and telling me that they are not going to vote for George Bush because of his stand on amnesty or outsourcing, for example. And this simply amazes me. I ask them if they aren’t going to vote to re-elect George Bush are they going to vote for the Democrat? And the answer is inevitably, "NO! I’m not going to vote for anybody. I’m going to stay home on Election Day."

My reply is if you stay home and George Bush doesn’t win re-election and instead Kerry or whoever the Democrat candidate is gets elected, do you think things are going to get really better? And their answer is, "Well, no, but I want to take a stand."

They should remember Custer. He too took a stand. It was his last.

That just stuns me because it’s utterly irrational. They don’t understand they are taking a stand against themselves. By not voting they only help elect a liberal Democrat who wants to raise their taxes, enact all kinds of new spending programs. They would also endanger the nation by their already demonstrated ineptness and weakness in the war on terror, and hand over Iraq to the United Nations so it can create the same kind of mess we are now seeing in Haiti – another UN and Clinton "success."

They are wearing blinders that only allow them to focus on one issue. They say they won’t vote for a candidate who disagrees with them on one single issue even though he agrees with them on every other issue. It’s utterly self-defeating.

Even though they staunchly support George Bush on his stands on tax cuts, how he is fighting the war, and applaud his pro-life policies, they disagree with him on the amnesty issue, for example, and therefore can’t bring themselves to vote for him.

They’ll just stay home and help elect a Democrat who disagrees with them on just about everything. They’d enact socialist programs that would cripple U.S. industry, yet some of my listeners applaud them not realizing that if you drive a company’s profits down, you drive the value of their stock down and the millions of Americans whose 401Ks are invested in that firm suffer losses as a result.

When President Bush goes on the offensive, he’s going to have to remind Americans that if they want to pay low prices for the goods they need, the reason they are going to have to look overseas is because Democrats in Congress have so regulated American companies that the cost of doing business has risen. That’s due to the unions and government regulations that have become so prohibitive.

What’s the Democrat answer? Well, they say they’d make foreign nations enact the same kind of onerous regulatory and environmental burdens we have here that would force the prices of their goods up to the same level as ours. In other words, wreck their own economies to make John Kerry or some other demagogue look good.

Fat chance.

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Mike Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Premiere Radio Network.

[panaxanax]

"I can't imagine any Conservative being happy with a Kerry in the White House."

How many times does it have to be posted that just because we aren't comfortable with the actions of GWB that we want Kerry in office.

Again, we're trying to get GWB to WAKE UP and stop turning his back on REAL CONSERVATIVES. Wouldn't you be happier if he was? We're only trying to help, get it?

[gatorbait]

At least with a demoRat president the GOP would fight against their one world, socialist, liberal policies, unlike now when their own President leads them by the nose down the same leftest path.

What do you base this fantasy on?

[gatorbait]

Mike Reagan prefers the boiled frog approach for the destruction of our republic.

Like his dad or PJB? What drivel.

[floriduh voter]

bttt and ping. Good way to REASON with conservatives who want to be couch potatoes on election day at their own peril. (and ours)

[clyde260]

Thanks Howlin, good discussion. This is it! Trading thoughts and ideas in an open forum, aggreeing to dis-agree. We all have the same goal, just differing ways of gettin there.

In the end, all that matters is that we stand united. After the election we can go back and re-hash all the different ways we got there.

At least we do this, not like the dumb headed compassionate libs who's tactics are lies, brainwashing, and force-feeding.

Remember the line from Animal House "Did it stop us when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

Remeber the goal!!!

[gatorbait]

At least Custer had a set and was willing to give the ultimate sacrifice. I think he was a hero when he stood in the face of death and fought a bitter battle defending his principals and orders. We need more like him in today's world.

Let's see, Custer divided his command,weakened all of his positions,failed to heed the warning he was completely out numbered and out gunned,got himself and his command annihilated,failed to carry out his actual orders so he could stroke his own delusions of grandeur. Custer fought that bitter battle to the end because he had boxed himself in by failing to follow simple tactical doctrine.

Yeah, you're right;we need more like him.

[panaxanax]

"Yep, you are the typical CusCon Kerry Conservative that I described above (unless you are a Liberal Troll, which is just as bad)."

Them's fightin' words, buddy. Strap on yur sixgun and meet me in front of the saloon.

[gatorbait]

Of course, that's just my opinion as a "...spoiled brat conservative".

The spoiled brat part is abundantly obvious.The conservative part is substantially less so.

[Consort]

For CusCons who want to sit out this election.

[gatorbait]

We're only trying to help, get it?

You're really Jim Wright, aren't you?

[floriduh voter]

[jimt]

The "KY conservatives" ! I love it - and it's a perfect description.

[floriduh voter]

Savage does the SAME THING. One day he says how great President Bush is and the next, Savage is downtrodden and dissing him in a tyrade. Are some of these radio guys bi-polar? It appears so.

What do I do? I stick with the President throughout and turn Hannity, Savage, et all off when they go bi-polar.

[N3WBI3]

LOL Perfect!

[Owen]

There is nothing principled or admirable about taking stands or actions or inactions that condemn your family and neighbors to life under the opposition in a country where Executive Orders can make things happen, the judiciary can be stacked with recess appointments and your nation's leader is seen on TV apologizing to the UN and France.

And I'll save some criticism for the rest of us, too. The pro Bush folks. We are doing nothing admirable if by inaction we let our families and neighbors wind up under the opposition. The inaction is not failing to vote; it is failing to find a way to volunteer to help the campaign in battleground states. If a battleground state is adjacent to yours, make arrangements with your boss now to have time off in that time frame, vote at home early and drive to that state to volunteer with GOTV efforts that day.

Victory requires sacrifice. Always.

[Cultural Jihad]

At least with Custer and his men, there were others slicing off their noses for them.

Not so the noseless conservatives.

[N3WBI3]

Fine, what hasbush and the republicans done about it that is bringing business back??

[jimt]

A second Bush term will happen once the President and Karl Rove work to rally the grass-roots to his side up until the end of the year.

While I dislike the anything-but-conservative spending, and the pandering to the socialists on a number of issues, the drop-dead item for me is the illegal alien amnesty. Illegals have bankrupted California, and they're working on it in Texas. The cure is definitely not inviting hordes more in to suck the lifeblood from our society.

That particular turd displaces all the punch.

[floriduh voter]

HEINZ KETCHUP HAS 57 Factories outsourced for ketchup and other HEINZ products. Kerry has many contributors who have off shore, out of country businesses. You haven't been doing your Kerry homework, have you? Kerry will be answering these questions or dodging them once Edwards is out of the contest. Further, when Dukakis was Gov. of Massachusetts, Kerry was LT. Gov. Their administration let CRIMINALS OUT OF JAIL who went on to murder innocent people. FURTHER, KERRY IS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY EXCEPT FOR TERRORISTS. Terrorist is a term of art imo that can be a living breathing word in the hands of a liberal. Kerry is too soft on criminals - a friend of criminals perhaps?

[Consort]

REAL CONSERVATIVES

Is that like true, genuine, actual, authentic, veritable, absolute, indubitable, bona fide, perfect, up-front, provable, demonstrable, unalloyed, sterling, palpable, or unpretended Conservatives?