[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

"Congress shall make no law....abridging the freedom of speech." Yet Bush signed CFR even as he acknowledged it was unconstitutional. He hasn't been a strict constructionist himself. That specific issue drove many Republicans to the primaries in 2000 to STOP! CFR promoting McCain and vote for Bush, who made promises he didn't keep on that issue.

There's more, but I'll leave it with that one.

[jwalsh07]

CFR was terrible. He should never have signed it, period.

But we were talking campaign promises. Bush ran on reforming campaign finance though without infringing the individual right to speech.

When you say you are betrayed you have to offer evidence of that betrayal. Specific promises made that weren't kept. You can't do it because Bush fulfilled almost every single promise, from Tax Cuts to No Child Left Behind and loading the federal courts with conservatives, 200 plus at this counting.

I knew going in what I was voting for. I'm always surprised that others didn't.