Bush Can Count On the Right

Human Events ^ | 5/21/04 | David Keene

[nopardons]

Some are,but others are political naifs,who really are NOT Conservatives at all,no matter how many times they claim they are.

[nopardons]

You get it...thankfully. :-)

[Salvation]

**Perhaps someone should be distributing a few pages of what Nader thinks about Kerry.**

LOL!

Good suggestion!

[Scenic Sounds]

I would crawl through a pit filled with sand vipers to vote for President Bush.

Well, I'm really hoping it won't come to that, but with all these new voting procedures, . . .

[x]

Clearly the President has his base that feels passionately for him. But just how large a base is it? How large does it compare with the hard-core support of previous Republican candidates? And how many Republicans will turn out in November?

I don't have numerical evidence, but I suspect some long-term Republicans have been turned off by Iraq. In the end the loss will probably be off-set by new voters and converts who support Bush for national security reasons.

There are currents of voters flowing this way and that over time. So current developments can be put in a historical context -- the falling off of Republican votes in some former Republican strongholds in the North, increased GOP support among Southerners and evangelicals, and now perhaps a modest post 9-11 swell for Bush that may offset some of the earlier loss of GOP votes since Reagan.

[Common Tator]

When many of us concluded prior to the 1972 elections that President Nixon had forfeited his claim to conservative support, conservatives ran a protest candidate against him in New Hampshire.

I hate it when conservative writers write untruths to support a position. They must think we are as ignorant of history as they are.

The bigest popular vote victory of the 20th century was won by Richard Nixon in 1972. Nixon won 60.7 percent to McGovern's 37.4 percent.

As a contrast Reagan in 1984 defeated Mondale by 58.77 to 40.56 percent.

If Conservatives were mad at Nixon in 1972 you couldn't tell it by reading the election returns. Nixon won every state except Taxachusetts in 1972.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks! Guess you could tell I was irritated by the naysayers from the Novak thread! :)

[PhiKapMom]

Know I wouldn't want to play poker with him. After the constant barrage of negative articles and attacks by the RATs, I cannot believe his poll numbers are not down in the 20's. That shows the depth of his support IMHO to stay around 50%. Come November I agree with you - landslide!

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting that -- I sure didn't remember a protest vote against Nixon. Seems like a little revisionist history here!

[PhiKapMom]

There is nothing wrong with being critical when you don't agree, but I have never seen you say you were staying home and not voting. To me that is all the difference.

[PhiKapMom]

Think you are right -- that's what I consider polls right now pretty worthless. No way are sane Americans going to let the party of Clinton take back the White House IMHO. Like you, I agree it will come down to national security and we all know that is not the forte of the Clinton Democrats!

[harpo11]

Beautiful!!! Otherwise, we'd all be wearing Pelosi/Kennedy/Clinton/Kerry designed burkhas...and guess what there won't be any color but drab.

[deport]

Remember the article said a protest vote in NH.... thus primary..... Nixon had competition however it didn't materialize to any degree....

Nixon gets the nomination with little opposition; a map would be monochromatic and therefore pointless. Early on he was challenged by McCloskey, an anti-war Republican, and Ashbrook, a conservative, but both were marginal and their vote totals never threatened Nixon's cruise to a second term.

Presidential Preference	Votes	Percentage
Richard M. Nixon	79,239	67.6%
Paul M. McCloskey, Jr.	23,190	19.8%
John M. Ashbrook	11,362	9.7%

There were other minor vote getters....

[PhiKapMom]

I don't look good in drab!

[PhiKapMom]

I couldn't remember any real competition -- thanks for posting!

[Victoria Delsoul]

So the president's political coalition is in pretty good shape, and certainly in far better shape than that on which his opponent will have to depend.

Big bump!

[deport]

I couldn't remember any real competition -- thanks

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There wasn't any to remember....... They didn't have Pat all primed and ready to go then..... lol

[Common Tator]

I have noted something I have never noted before. The Christian radio stations are urging Evangelicals to register and vote for Bush.

In years past many of the pastors on the air urged people to register and vote... But they never said for whom. Today they are using abortion and the homosexual agenda to urge Christians to vote for Bush.

This is not a Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson appeal. These are preachers who work and speak at local churches campaigning for Bush daily on the air.

What most people fail to understand is that half of evangelicals are Registered Democrats. The Democratic embrace of the homosexual agenda could make them all Republicans. That could make Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, P.A and West Virginia as Republican as the south.

As a group I have never met people more ignorant of what the public will go for, than the media. They work together, socialize together, and play together.

They are always surprised by the public will. They don't understand that what the media elites and the public workers and teachers unions want is nothing like what the public wants.

The Democrats are today in the mirror image of the Goldwater era. Goldwater thought the only reason the right did not win is, we never nominated a real conservative. And many Democrats were convinced that they only reason a real leftists has never won, is they never nominated one.

So this year they took a hard turn to the left in the nominating process.

The reason the media and Democrats are so focused on Iraq is they know that the economy and social issues are a huge loser for them.

Iraq is the only card they have and it is not as good a card as VietNam. McGovern can tell you how good the Vietnam card played in 1972. ... after two full years of the Fonda-Kerry act touted by Walter Cronkite ... et al.. anti war was a huge failure.

Had the Viet Nam war not been over, they would never have gotten Nixon out of office.

[Howlin]

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