We knew Bush wasn't a hard core conservative when we elected him, so why do we expect him to turn into one now? We knew he had the best chance of defeating Al Gore, and therefore we chose him as our candidate in the primary (I will admit, however, that I didn't vote for him in that primary). In the general election, he was obviously the better of the two choices, and that hasn't changed. It is time for us to stop whining about Bush's lack of conservative ideals, and start planning to elect a real conservative in the 2008 election.
IMHO the ONLY truly conservative and broad thing Bush has done is Cut Taxes...Is this enough to outweigh the radical spending increases ??...I give him a reluctant pass.
Well said. There's a time and a place for everything. Conservatives are just now starting to gain a majority. Some will argue we have one, but not a true conservative majority. In time, if we don't kill each other, we'll have a strong, solid majority, we're just in the toddler phase. Just wait until we're that unruley teenage phase! Whoo Hoo~!
His problem is he has the heart of a Texan evangelical, but the mind of a Connecticut blue-blood.
And who would that be? McCain?
That's not the reason he was picked.
The reason he was picked is because many people saw him as a kind of '92 election "do-over". A kind of slap in the face of Clinton.
If Bush were the best chance at beating Gore, he would have had to worry about a 500+ vote lead in Florida.
Cmon. There are 30,000,000+ conservatives. Bush was really the best?