Posted on 05/06/2006 3:26:58 PM PDT by RWR8189
"even the most sainted conservatives--Reagan, for instance--harbor nonconservative thoughts."
Like?
Reagan didn't have a Republican House and a Republican Senate to work with.
"Fred is spinning like a top."
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*I have greatly reduced my fox news viewing with the pandering and open border crowd on every show. Fred is a sad case these days.
Great insight. We each should understand this but need to be reminded.
A president has to do all he can to help elections of conservatives, therefore, some issues have to come off the table.
On immigration - Bush holds to the point that family values do not stop at the border. But, he has come around to understanding our borders have to be safe. But, will he get anything at all - I doubt it. The issue is too controversial and neither side will give.
Bush is a poker player and Bush is the most attacked president in many years. He is looking at impeachment efforts if we lose the house, so expect him to consider his own welfare in this mess.
How he can get anything through with all the GOP caving on him, all the dems attacking him, I can't see. So, all of this griping we all do is really the fact that the GOP representatives do not support his goals, do not stand firm, are weaklings caring more about bribing the dems than helping us.
Might help us to cast the blame where it goes - our representatives that are worthless.
Neither does Bush.
After 14 years of triangulation there shouldn't be that much left to argue about.
If Republican "victory" is defined as implementing Democrat policy, why bother voting at all? Was Fred wearing his Goebbels lapel pin when he wrote this?
Absolutely! As both sides have completely abandoned their core principles, our federal government has devolved into a mad wrestling match for the taxpayers largess, with no holds barred pandering and demagoguery having replaced any previous semblance of statesmanship.
If he is in fact a politician, he'd follow the will of the vast majority of Americans and secure the borders and deport the Illegals.
Barnes is a sycophant
Yea , isnt Bush doing great?! 4.7 % unemployment and a booming tock marhet, and not only are his poll number in the toilet, but he has lost support of his base in the congress. Shmuck
My God what an opportunity for a REAL conservative. I see none on the horizon...
- Tax increases.
- Citizenship amnesty for illegal aliens.
- Sandra Day O'Connor.
- Campaign finance.
- High federal spending (22% of GDP!)
The present day senate isn't infested with RINO's?
Fred Barnes is lost in the ozone. This is all about leadership.
When political conservatism is advanced, it triumphs over liberalism. PresReagan didn't have a GOP Congress, yet he changed the direction of American politics and set a conservative governing course for America. In 1994 Newt Gingrich came along and won a huge victory for conservatism and the GOP.
The course that PresBush and the GOP Congress has set for the future of the federal government is not a direction that will advance a conservative agenda. The federal government is headed down a path of increased welfare entitlement spending and a larger federal bureaucracy. Not to mention, a ongoing liberal policy of open borders and amnesty for criminal immigrants.
While the liberals and their media cohorts make a lot of noise, they have no power. The GOP controls the whole show in WashDC, however, they haven't used that power to craft a conservative government. The GOP has basically wasted an historic opportunity to reshape American politics.
I sometimes wonder if anti Bushers find him an easy target away from themselves for their own negligence in doing the hard work of helping to elect responsible candidates to public office. Pres Bush is President of all of this country's citizens so I do not go crazy every time he swerves from my point of view. Who hollered the loudest about the need for Social Security reform and then were not to be heard from when the Pres spent considerable time going around the country trying to get some action on reforms? Then the gripe was about him spending 'political capital' on that instead of ----fill in the blanks. I think the term CONSERVATIVE needs to be defined each time a particular individual uses it to push their position because Lord knows I cannot always make the connection between the word conservative and the context in which it is being used. I think President Bush is doing the best he can with the few good senators and representatives that are putting this country first. He is a hard working man and a good man. Thank God for that.
Well, if the way he's securing our borders is the best he can do, I think we need to get someone else. It's pretty clear to me that he's putting Mexico first.
Finally someone who gets it. I don't know what everyone was expecting. Some people seem to think that every time President Bush has a thought different from theirs, we should hang him. It's about time people get a clue. You can't always get what you want. I don't always agree with President Bush but he is the best person for the job.
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