Claiming you were dupped into voting for Bush in '04 and using nothing but examples from before the election does not reflect a lot of credibility.
How about some "trying to appease" us, for a change! How about the Republican nominating a conservative once in a while?
You mean like Roberts and Alito?
This next election cycle will seee an exodus of conservatives out of the Republican Party the likes of which haven't been seen since dissillusioned Whigs left in droves to form the Republican Party.
The disillusioned Whigs were mostly big government types whose party was essentially decimated after the deaths of Clay and Webster. They were hardly the states' rights conservatives you seem to be in search of. BTW, they favored public schools!
As for an exodus of conservatives, why didn't that happen during the '04 cycle? The answer was simply that there was no place to go except into the arms of John Kerry!
I'll see some (or many) of you at the Constitution Party this year.
Very, very few. Most Republicas learned that lesson in 1992 when they put Clinton into office for 8 years by romancing Perot. So have at it.
If Ross Perot hadn't had a hissy fit and gone on a huge ego trip, we'd never have had Clinton. Clinton moved the country and the party farther left than I thought possible in my lifetime.
For all the talk about how Clinton was moderate and triangulated, he is also the person who hated and descimated the military, sold our most valuable national security secrets to enemy countries in exchange for cash, and tried to impose nationalized healthcare on the country.
This is what the unappeasables have given US! And they think they have ANYTHING worth saying that we're going to listen to? I don't think so.
Wrong here, also. I was railing against Bush even before he got the nomination the first time. He did not fool me then, and his actions have proven me to be correct in my evaluation of him.
(my post) How about the Republican nominating a conservative once in a while?
SB: Republicans nominating a conservative.
In my state (Iowa) we conservatives have tried for years to get the more conservative nominated to state and national candidacy, only to have the Republican state machine say something stupid like: We must nominate someone ELECTABLE! Meaning; someone like another RINO.
This has happeded so many times, Governor, Senator, U.S. Representative, and of course, U.S. president, that those of us who are tired of trying are going to try something else for a change.