Posted on 08/25/2005 9:53:40 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Republican senators with White House ambitions have begun to break with President Bush on a variety of issues to prove their independence from the second-term president.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee staked out his own ground on the issue of stem-cell research. Sen. George Allen of Virginia publicly disagreed with Mr. Bush's refusal to meet a second time with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska compared the war in Iraq to the Vietnam War, an analogy that is anathema to Mr. Bush. Sen. John McCain of Arizona has long disagreed with the president's tax cuts and confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
"As the incumbent president gets into his second term, a lot of people who lust after his job are trying to differentiate themselves -- not so much from him as from each other," said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union.
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My two biggest beefs with PresBush.
Add to that pussy-footing around with Iraqi insurgents and their supportive neighbors.
Check out #23. Apparently, on a Sunday show, he DID amend his position after news of Bush already having met Sheehan broke.
You described the mood of the entire country. Enough of the BS and lies.......
Good. But he really never should have said it in the first place, because it's not the job of the president to meet with every wacko fringe player. He does enough of that when he meets with the occasional senator.
Able Danger is on the way: when it laminates coverage, points will swing back our way, probably 10 net points.
If Shrillary the Senator runs against Allen the Senator, Allen wins by at least 8 points.
Nobody mentioned Mitt Romney... I'm really not sure of his ideas, but he hasn't said or done anything against Bush. I've heard Guiliani's name bounce around too. (even though he's not conservative)
Which is stupid since what it comes across as is disloyalty to the Republican Party base. Sorry Senators but you have to get NOMINATED first. "Proving your Independence" may make the Dinosaur media love you, for the people who NOMINATE the next Republican Candidate they view your "independence" as both disloyalty and political weakness. See the Republican Base expects their Senators to FIGHT the Hysteric Left, not get alone with it. Somebody ought to tell Hegal that he is politically dead. Any Republican who spews the same talking points as the BanSheehan and Moveon.org has ZERO chance of winning the Republican nomination.
Of course notice that none of the RINOS, nor the Dims, are purposing any legislation to actually deal with either issue. They scream at Bush a lot, but they actually do not DO anything. To me their inaction speaks far LOUDER then their words.
If anyone want to be the front runner, they would purpose reinstating the 1995 PAY AS YOU GO Budget rules and support a tough anti-illegal immigration bill. The fact that none of the current Republican "Candidates" have done so shows they haven't got the Political Savvy to win in 2008. They will spew a lot of tough talk to try and fool the Republican Base, they will not actually DO anything.
My concern as well. Though I think the split, if it were to happen, would be over the immigration issue, and the way the GOP has rolled over on the issue of illegals, rather than Iraq.
>"...lax immigration laws and excessive federal spending."<
-We have immigration laws? :0
The Republicans in general haven't stood behind this President nearly as strongly as I think they should have.
Which is why my RNC support has dropped to and will remain at Zero.
3000 unidentified people per day crossing our undefended, wide open borders qualifies as defense?
"The first conservative, and doesn't even have to be "right" on all issues, Reagan wasn't..G.W.B. hasn't been...but the first resonably conservative man or woman that draws a marker in the sand, fires his or her polling agency and takes a stand on what they believe in the face of a MSM tidal wave for doing so will become the frontrunner. Simple as that."
Tancredo may be that man. He polled ahead of Allen last month... with 1%. It's still early, but it bodes well for Tancredo since the frontrunners in the polls are Giuliani and McCain, neither of whom have a chance of winning primaries outside of blue states.
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