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I know there are no moderate leftists. I don't know that the president considers anything he does to be accomodation of their desires.

I agree with you that the center has moved more to the left over the years, but I believe that will reverse itself if we don't foolishly cut off our noses to spite our own faces by splintering into useless little factions rather than remaining a larger united whole. I think that slow process has already begun, and we are almost to the point of making real headway if we stay the course. I believe the Left realizes that too, as evidenced by the desperation of their increasingly obvious tactics, and their desire to demoralize and divide us. Some of us are admittedly more to the right than the president, and disagree with some of his decisions, but the only electable alternative is unacceptable to all of us, or should be if we are truly on the right.

I think you are misjudging the president. I doubt the folks on the "deck of cards" would consider him particularly affable or sensitive. :)

"I agree with you that the center has moved more to the left over the years, but I believe that will reverse itself if we don't foolishly cut off our noses to spite our own faces by splintering into useless little factions rather than remaining a larger united whole. I think that slow process has already begun, and we are almost to the point of making real headway if we stay the course. "

I wish I shared your optimism. The media is more radically liberal than ever. There are fewer and fewer voices that clearly articulate conservative ideology.

Where in current public debate are issues like Judicial activism, the debilitating effect of welfare or how government funding caused health care and education costs to increase at rates much higher than inflation.? How many people know what the Laffer curve is? Who addresses the "Real" reson for the second amendment. Why does the National Endowment for the Arts still exist? Why are there even more moves toward centralized control of education in the name of accountability?

Our conservative president bought into the idea that the way to stimulate the economy was a lower middle class tax rebate to encourage consumer spending. Give me a break!

What ever happened to all the conservative firebrands who were elected to congress in the wake of Hillary's health care debacle? I haven't heard from them since the "Contract with America"

Speaking of HRC, I believe she is the oncoming train that no one seems to see. Once she is president, she would need a very small pretext to grant herself absolute power and the the forces of evil in the media would defend her for doing it. The next lib president can write their own ticket. HRC is the only one on the landscape brazen enough to attempt it. She has a very real shot at the presidency if Kerry implodes. The turning tide that you see might be the precursor to a tsunami.

"With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed." Abraham Lincoln

Take Jimmy Carter, add Bill Clinton, subtract Monica Lewinsky, and you are left with George W. Bush. Bush would be considered a radical leftist forty years ago. The only thing he's got going for him is that he can be trusted alone with your teenaged daughter in the Oval Office. That's it. He's a well-meaning affable guy who decided to grow up at the tender age of forty, got Jesus, and is trying his best to live a good life. It isn't enough. Instead of admonishing and chastising our domestic enemies, he tries to accomodate them. Instead of sticking up for these troops, he apologizes for them. He could at least have said something that compared the savagery inflicted on our people with the frat house humiliation these POWs had to endure, but he's got to be sensitive to the sentiments of those who cheered as the WTC collapsed. That attitude will lose us this war.

It is beyond belief that people at this forum consider him a conservative. We don't need a Sunday school teacher for President, we need a ruthless, calculating SOB who won't take no guff off of no one. Bush is unwilling or unable to comprehend the Islamist mindset. Either way, he's trying to make friends with those who hate us. His is a mentality guaranteed to lose us this war.