Posted on 11/11/2005 7:00:22 AM PST by new yorker 77
President Bush has run for President three times. In 2000 he ran for President. He won. In 2002, he bet his Presidency on a GOP return to control of the Senate. He won. In 2004, he fought his critics and he won again.
Liberals are making a huge mistake if they think President Bush will be the death of the GOP in 2006.
In 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005 many conservatives pondered at the weak response from the Bush team.
We were angered at the inability of the Bush team to get their act together and fight their critics head on.
But in 2000, 2002, and 2004 as election season began, the Bush Team slowly destroyed their competition.
Democrats may be laughing at President Bush now, but in 2006 he will have them looking up at him again.
IBTZ
"Liberals are making a huge mistake if they think President Bush will be the death of the GOP in 2006."
No. What will be the death of the GOP in '06 will be if they don't learn to start cutting spending and taxes - along with all the other stuff they were put into office to do.
4th term??
Is this "new" math?
All politics is loco..........
The GOP House and Senate members are hurting themselves plenty without any help from the President.
President Bush
Pretty accurate. Bush has been running for President since 2000 because he has had two wars to fight, the one in Iraq and the one in the US.
Yep. A bunch of Republicans that act like Democrats is the quickest way to turn off your base.
The new tone moderation made us all cringe.
As a conservative, it helps to look back to learn how to move forward.
We were here in 2001.
Replay the 2002 model and win.
He did this in 2002 after a miserable 2001 for the GOP.
Conservatives do not cower and whine and give up.
We consolidate and win.
What an obvious troll
How would he have done on tax cuts, judges, and the war if he had to work with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, and House Majority Leader Pelosi.
Without tax cuts, jobs would have been nonexistent. He would have been given his father's label and would have lost in 2004.
Bush won re-election in 2004 by winning in 2002.
He can solidify his final three years by winning in 2006.
"Conservatives do not cower and whine and give up"
No. They pull budget cutting bills because members of their own party were (ready for this?) upset about the proposed drilling in ANWAR, tax cuts, Medicare cuts, and cuts in social programs!
This is your GOP today. And if I were you, I wouldn't be so confident. If this keeps up, and I see no reason it shouldn't, my votes are going strictly to the Libertarians next year. Why should I waste my vote on Democrats in Republican clothing?
I'll wait and see how he does in his third term before I make a decision.
He set it, and THEY refused to push it!
LLS
GOP moderates pulled this kind of garbage in 2001.
It wasn't until the Bush White House reigned in all Republicans to a common agenda for 2002 that we turned it around.
You should not be a reactionary liberal.
You should be a focused conservative.
Contact the RNC, the White House, and GOP leaders. They will put pressure on these moderates.
2005 feels and smells like 2001,. Even the elections in Virginia and New Jersey are the same.
Focused Conservatives are better than Fretting Conservatives.
Stop spending so much fn money.
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