[rcrngroup]

You don't know what you're talking about. He's a fiscal conservative.

Maybe you don't know what you're talking about.

"As chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, Boehner helped shepherd Bush's No Child Left Behind education bill through the House. In 2002, Bush traveled to Boehner's district on Ohio's western border to sign the measure into law".

Isn't this the education bill that was almost exclusively written by left-wing Ted Kennedy for President Bush (another example of Bush's pandering to the DimWits) and then ramrodded through conservatives to get them to vote for it? I'm not giving any kudos to any of them who caved in on this either.

The point is, that many grass root conservatives feel that Boehner is part of the same embedded group of Republicans who have not followed through on reducing the size and cost of big government. Otherwise we would not have a federal government that is 40% greater in spending now than what it was 5 years ago. I don't know what his track record is in curbing & turning back illegal immigration either.

[Torie]

I suspect a solid majority of Republicans supported no child left behind. You may not care about dysfunctional inner city schools, and their continuing existence a stark impeachment of the ideal of equal opportunity, but the bulk of the Bush base does. Of that I am quite confident. Find some other Achilles heel.