Posted on 02/27/2004 1:01:58 AM PST by 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.
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.
So do I!
I guess that makes me a "Real Conservative" as well.
I would add that "Real Conservatives" do not threaten their party during the election cycle when coming together is the most important thing.
"Real Conservatives" would understand that policy is more solidified during this period because any changes are viewed as indecision and waffling.
Yes. I am a "Real Conservative".
LOL!
Lookie! We just went through that!
Nuff said.......
A jewish american who actually sent her son off to serve in the United States military.
Am sick of the so called elites in the media thinking they speak for me.
You left out certifiable...
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Yes that works but I like the following also.....
We have a few describing you and your clowder as well.Start with kamikazes,unappeaseables,Socialist populists,bakas,losers,whiners,French,Democrat wannabees...
JOHN KERRY IS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT except for terrorists who would never be apprehended in the first place if Kerry was POTUS because he's soft on defense.
Yes, I liken their mindset to that of Josef Stalin, who claimed that oppressing the Soviet workers was a way to enhance the inherent contradictions and force the Dialectical Materialist Leap to a glorious stateless future. "We enslave and oppress in order to liberate!"
Are you suggesting the Federal government run businesses? Is that not what has prompted a tremendous amout of the problem we have now? What have you done to influence your congressmen? Want to stop bad laws? Start there.
To the "true conservatives" out there: if you choose to be undependable, the GOP will not care what you think. Period.
Is that how you spell too narrow minded to think past your own eyelids where you're from? Down here we call that too stupid to live. Go stamp your little frustrated feet over at DU where you belong.
Not sure if you are describing multiple personalities, but you all ought to get some rest and leave self-governance to those of us who are invigorated.
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