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.

[goldstategop]

The President has to fight for his base. I believe this election will be decided on the basis of cultural issues. No I don't want to stay home in November. President Bush must do more to give me and millions of disaffected conservatives a reason to go out and vote for him. I believe he's done that by endorsing the age-old and timeless definition of marriage and the family under assault from our Cultural Left. He needs to recess appoint more conservative judges to send the Democrats a message and to support a bill to curb the jurisdiction of glue-sniffing liberal judges who want to take away our rights and freedoms. Those are the issues John F. Kerry and the Democrats fear. 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.

[hershey]

Conservatives are depressed and frustrated by months of incessant Bush bashing by RAT dwarves and their media pals with no reply from Bush. We're venting. Come Nov. 8 or whatever the date, we'll go to the polls and pull the right lever. Staying home would amount to cutting our own throat.

[harbingr]

'...they’d enact socialist programs that would cripple U.S. industry,...'

...Hmmm, 'socialist programs', eh?, jee, sownds lyke wun'a dem demorats,...why GWB's awreddy do'n dat....seems ta me, yah bettr stik wit duh mule thet brung ya heer...othrwyze yah wont half a way home...he,he,he,

(Alice , wuna dees daze, Im goan ta sen ya tu duh moon, uh..., or mars...)

[Amelia]

he was in the 6:00P PM to 9:00 PM time slot here.

He still is. Right now he's on that new FM talk radio station, somewhere like 104.1 or 104.7...

Yesterday was listening to a report on NPR, morning news I think, and they were talking about the North Korea negotiations.

What really caught my ear was a line about the Koreans not wanting to make too much progress until after the election because they thought a Democrat, if elected, might give them more of what they wanted than that hard line George Bush would.

I couldn't believe they reported that on NPR.

[MeekOneGOP]

Article from Michael Reagan ...

Conservatives Contemplate Electoral Hari-kiri

Excerpt:

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.

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[Heatseeker]

No problem. On a related subject, the GOP will not get much help from Nader this time. Ralphie got 2.73% in 2000, but if he gets 0.5% this time I'll be amazed.

[onyx]

We now have a new descriptive for the Bush-bashers here --- our "Custers" --- the 'purists' and 'principled' ---

[Heatseeker]

Conservatives are depressed and frustrated by months of incessant Bush bashing by RAT dwarves and their media pals with no reply from Bush. We're venting. Come Nov. 8 or whatever the date, we'll go to the polls and pull the right lever. Staying home would amount to cutting our own throat.

I hope you're right. Turn-out is EVERYTHING in this race.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin' ! Yep !

[BigSkyFreeper]

I like it too. :)

[onyx]

Good morning and soon (when I calm down) it'll be "good nite" again --- the homosexual marriage articles have my blood boiling. Now a little mayor in NY is planning to marry some homosexuals today.

[livius]

Great article! The "Unappeasables." That's exactly what these folks are.

Heck, I don't even agree 100% with myself half the time; I sure don't expect to agree 100% with the President. But I know that 90% or even less is a whole lot better than 0%, which is my level of agreement with any Dem.

[Ramcat]

You'll really be bendin over when Barney Franks is a cabinet member.

[MeekOneGOP]

Then how about "The KY Conservatives", for those who will bend over and take anything?

Stay at home, elect a Democrat ...

I would urge Conservatives to vote for Bush. I can't imagine any Conservative being happy with a Kerry in the White House. Can you ?

[MeekOneGOP]

Now a little mayor in NY is planning to marry some homosexuals today.

WHAT ?? First I've heard of that. When will it ever end ?? ....

[onyx]

I've just pinged you to it. Wouldn't want you to miss a gagger.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

THE CUSTER CONSERVATIVES: "Don't make me think about the logical repercussions of allowing a pro-abortion, pro-tax, pro-liberal Supreme Court leftist whacko to the Presidency... I'm principled, dammit!"

[tkathy]

How about the "Custer Conservative Talk Show Hosts"? Some of these guys, (I won't say which ones), are firing up the wing nuts extremists on the right endlessly with irrelevant issues, and frequently dissing Bush in sneaky ways. Not helping GWB's poll numbers at all.

[MeekOneGOP]

Man ! Gagger is right. Greenies and 'RATS really stinkin' things up ! ...

[GailA]

They keep leaving out the impact of the social engineering judges and the 2-3 Supreme Court Justices the next president will apoint. Which will have just as big an impact on our lives as the War on Terror.