Investors Fleeing GOP

NewsMax.com | April 30, 2006 | Staff NewsMax.com

[DB]

You burn the base over and over and this is the result.

From illegal immigration to trying to appoint his personal lawyer to the supreme court. And then take congress, trying to buy votes with my money, going weak kneed over national security and not enforcing the law on illegals - just to name a few...

Instead of standing on conservative principle they became Democrat lite.

I'm not buying.

[CWOJackson]

The only base that appears to have been burnt is that part that was never within his base...and use terms like Democrat-lite.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

And the only competent way to get them removed is through the GOP primaries, something all too few are willing to put in the effort to contribute towards.

You got it!!! It's easier to sit back, observe and gripe. I wish these people who think they will do a perfect job would get off their butts and run in the primaries.

I'm just as disappointed in the Republicans as anyone but I don't see a better alternative than getting better people to run in primaries and if they don't want to, well, we're stuck.

But I will NEVER vote for a Democrat. The idea of Speaker Pelosi is more than I can handle. All of a sudden our worst Republicans look better.

[DB]

Right...

I donated to Bush in both election cycles.

I've also donated to Tom McClintock here in California.

You really are clueless.

[CWOJackson]

Yes, a lot of people who use terms like Democrat-lite claim the same thing...every election.

[psjones]

I would also hate to see Pelosi become Speaker, I can't stomach that woman. Have those griping now forgotten their history? The 1992 election gave us the clintons.

[Radix]

"I hope you are aware of the consequence: DEMS back in power. As a conservative, is THAT what you really want, to cut off your nose to spite your face?"

So Republicans should take for granted the votes of conservatives as in say the way that democrats take the votes of black Americans?

I am fortunate, I can go ahead and not vote with impunity as long as I still reside here in this Commonwealth led by crooks on Be-A-Con Hill.

[RightWhale]

What is wrong with this picture?

Investors and politics don't mix, or if they do it is Teapot Dome.

[RockyMtnMan]

I know many other conservatives that feel the same way. That old lame scare tactic isn't going to work this election cycle. The republicans are almost indistinguishable from the Dims with ranting loons and turncoats on both sides of the isle.

I'm voting for the most conservative candidate, whether that be a Republican, Libertarian, Independent, or even the Constitution party. I doubt the Dim's would offer up a conservative and party politics makes me hesitant to vote for either major party.

It's clear to me the Republicans have squandered their majority victories and seem to perform better when the opposition party is in a position to challenge them. America needs a change from the old ways of thinking because it's steering us down the path of socialism little by little each year.

[RHINO369]

And 1992 gave us the Contract with America, and the first republican controlled congress in a long long time. That republican congress was successful at keeping a popular liberal president in line, and even controlling spending enough to get a balanced budget.

Now a republican congress can't even get a so called conservative president to control spending.

If it weren't for the foreign policy of democrats I'd almost prefer a split government. But because the democrats will do major damage to our foreign policy I'm hoping to purge the Rinos in 2006, and find a strong conservative to run in 08, and have a new contract with America in 2008, with real conservatives.

[OldFriend]

Zogby's special sauce. Yuck!

[maxter]

You might consider supporting Club For Growth who supports fiscally conservative candidates. I believe they supported both Senator Coburn and Representative Pence.

[Salgak]

Methinks he's saying he's rather have an actual Democrat, as opposed to a RINO who SAYS he will do something conservative, but ends up always voting like a Democrat anyway.

That way, NEXT election, you can elect a REAL conservative, not a faux-conservative RINO.

And I can see his point. . . .

[MaineVoter2002]

The Dow is at a six year high...yes, investors are abandoning the GOP in droves

Maybe they ones leaving are the englsh only investors.

[A CA Guy]

If the GOP would come out in favor of building a wall between Mexico and the USA, the money would flow like a river in.

[Mase]

According to pollsters, 35 percent of voters belong to the "investor class,"

Yet 52% of Americans are invested in the stock market today. I smell Zogby's sauce and believe this is nothing more than wishful thinking on his part.

This entire article is nonsensical. Bush reduced the tax on capital gains which stimulated massive investment in our economy and resulted in Wall Street earning record bonuses in 2005. This is just another poll clearly showing us that polls are taken to create public opinion, not reflect it.

[nickcarraway]

Are you an investor? If say you've "banked double digit returns since Jan 30th," you mean you actually liquidated your securities and put the money in a money market or something? If equities you hold went up double digits, then you didn't make any money, your holdings just doubled. An investor is someone who plans to hold long term, while a speculator is something else.

[nickcarraway]

My experience hasn't necessarily been that. More top-level people I know on Wall Street were Democrats. Jon Corzine is a Democrat, not a Republican. Although I don't know him, Bob Rubin is a Democrat as well. Sandy Weill is a Democrat. I can'tr think of a Republican, off the top of my head.

[Don Carlos]

the really big investors today are unions, entertainment industry, and assorted multi nation corporates who are as much left wing as any Sandinista or Castroite.

eleni121 Gets It! This is an attempt to paint only GOP as Wall Street investors. All others (Dems) are just poor folks, trying to their best to make it day-to-day.

Thanks, newsmax.com, and nice try! Maybe next time!