I think the frustration involved with this thread is due to a large number of issues that the administration has conveniently betrayed the right on.
1. The border. 'nuff said.
2. Campaign finance reform.
3. Lack of comments regarding imminent domain most recently.
4. Failure to prosecute obvious treason by the 'toons, and others since.
5. Foreign policy that has shifted back to helping the frickin UN and bending over backwards for the EU, Mexico, and especially China.
We on the right played a big part in getting this president elected - twice - and our repayment has been betrayal. That's the root cause of all this. We've been suckered - we actually fell for the good old American way of thinking.
We thought it was going to be as we believe America should be, not as it was. Some wake up call this second term has been.......
I would add another entitlement (prescription drugs) to your list.
It looks to me like the idea is to get the electorate so disgusted that we do not vote anymore, continue globalizing the economy and our laws and then what can we do? Start another new country somewhere?
I could say more, but that's enough to maintain my marginal FReeper status.
"3. Lack of comments regarding imminent domain most recently."
It's not surprising that the President has not spoken against eminent domain (not "imminent domain", although it is certainly imminent). He's used it when it served his business interests. He cannot condemn it now.
It's an outrage, and he can't even make a meaningless rhetorical stand. Disgraceful.
I agree with your criticisms. Here are mine from another thread:
1. You call 50% more federal funding than clinton towards education "conservative"?
2. You call a prescription drug entitlement "conservative"?
3. You call a man who gives 50 million dollars to Abbas, an organizer of the 1972 munic massacre "conservative"?
4. You call a man who forgave BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars of Africa's debt "conservative"? [and gave another BILLION dollars to help fight "malaria", when he could have just requested lifting the DDT ban...]
5. You call a man who ignores the border problem after the worst attack in our nation's history "conservative"? (and calls the Minutemen "vigilantes")
6. You call a man who signs CFR, an attack on the first amendment "conservative"?
Aside from tax cuts and the WOT, I can't really think of too many other things that Bush has done which I could call conservative. That's the dangerous thing though...Bush and these republicans are labeled as "right wing extremists" when they are nothing of the sort. Today's Republican party is socialist lite in my view, there are very few conservatives left. If the founding fathers were alive today and had their own political party, the republicans would be to the far left of these great men. I've used this analogy before, but voting democrat is like pressing the fast forward button to socialism, while voting republican applies a small yet ineffective brake on socialism.
I agree with the lack of comment on eminent domain. The thing that complicates all is if he really goes through with nominating gonzales.