Posted on 04/30/2006 12:51:14 PM PDT by no dems
Investors Fleeing GOP
Investors at all income levels are increasingly turning away from the Republican Party, endangering the GOP's hold on power.
According to pollsters, 35 percent of voters belong to the "investor class," which includes not only wealthy individuals but also union members, mutual fund holders and a growing number of minority-group Americans.
They comprise a group that helped put Republicans in power "but now seems restless," Business Week reports.
President Bush got the votes of 61 percent of investors in 2004, but now only 43 percent give him a favorable job approval rating, according to a recent Zogby International poll.
"Investors' complaints include the administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Dubai Ports deal, the management of the Iraq war, the $8.2 trillion national debt, soaring gasoline prices and immigration policy," according to Business Week.
Even Wall Street appears to be turning away from the GOP. As NewsMax has reported, last year Democrats beat Republicans in raising political donations from the financial industry, the first time the party outdid Republicans since 1994.
Investors' dissatisfaction could result in defections from the GOP in numbers sufficient to have a seriously detrimental effect on Republican candidates in the 2006 midterm elections.
But while investors appear alienated from the GOP, they remain skeptical that Democrats would do any better on economic issues, Business Week notes.
Bruce Bagley, a small-business owner in California, told the magazine that if Democrats were to take over Congress, investors would have a "bull's-eye" on their back.
Adjusted for inflation, the Dow is about 2000 points below where it was 6 years ago.
And a lot stronger then it was six years ago.
I take their donation forms and, with thick magic marker, write "NO AMNESTY" or "BUILD THE WALL" all over the front and back.
Then I mail it back with their pre-paid 'franking privledge' envelopes, so theoretically THEY pay postage. (Yeah, I know, really taxpayers pay much of it)
And just to add insult, I write on both the back and front of the envelope, "Stop the Suicide! No Amnesty for Illegal Aliens!!" so everybody from here to Wash, DC can read it.
All we have to do is replay the Hildabeast telling the whole country that she "is going to take things away from us for our own good," or whatever claptrap she spouted.
The investor class will be climbing on board so fast it will make your head spin.
I am ashamed of those who claim to be republicans who are not supporting their own party and president. We will all reap the doom of their decisions. And that means all of us. But they would rather let the left take over because they can't have the party Their way. Flame away, I don't care.
Waving the boogey man of Demonrats being back in power isn't going to scare anyone to the polls anymore. We have the most liberal government possible with the Republicans in charge. Not even Demonrats have been as liberal as Bush and Co..
"Not even Demonrats have been as liberal as Bush and Co.."
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Longing for Hillary?
"NewsMax didn't have a link? Then where did you get it?"
NewaMax e-mails me news briefs everyday.
What the President and some of our Republican leadership in the Senate seem to be proposing is that in 2007 we will need passports to go to Canada, while those who have come into the country illegally will be signing up for an amnesty program that will lead to eventual citizenship. And in the meantime the gigantic leak on the southern border will be left as is.
Does that seem equitable to you? Does that seem tolerable to you? Does it seem even sane to you?
There's a difference?
From what I can tell Hillary is in office.
Good comment.
Republican leaders need to quit spinning and get back to rock solid basics.
I regard myself as a Wall St. conservative. As such, I don't believe the current administration reflects my conservative values. I will not support this administration if it continues to be less fiscally competent than a Clinton administration. My only comfort is to tell myself this administration is an aberration and this temporary insanity serves as a useful opportunity for Republicans to get in right relationship with their conservative economic roots.
I'm almost there, too. I re-registered with the county as an Independent Conservative. Next step: out all together.
I have a chance to kick Maria Cantwell out of office and you better believe I'll vote for her "R" opponent.
So what? 100mph or 20mph ... Dem or GOP we're still going over the socialist cliff.
If the GOP wants to be the party of conservatives, they need to BE conservative and have a backbone. If not, there's always the Constitution Party.
Thanks, I will check into them.
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