Posted on 05/06/2006 4:53:38 PM PDT by neverdem
Edited on 05/06/2006 7:01:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
That cackling you're hearing comes from the chorus of Bush critics (an all-inclusive term that accounts for spittle-flecked bloggers and moderate liberal finger-waggers alike) giddy over Bush's basement-level poll numbers. Several bloggers have gone to the trouble of showing side-by-side charts of Bush's approval rating following close behind former President Richard Nixon's. At the end of the trail is the X-marks-the-spot treasure trove "Nixon resigns."
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As a social conservative (I also belive in the fundamentals of captalism), I refuse to be placed on a GOP plantation for votes only during an election ala the blacks in the Dummy party.
I am not voting for RINOs period.
I can't tell if your posts are a joke, ignorance, or whining. Whatever they are, it isn't working for you.
It seems the Republicans in Washington have to be the same way. The combination of their actions, and inactions over the last several months amount to a political death wish.
President Reagan won 49 states against Mondale, then after all the Iran_Contra bs, left office 4 years later with a 63% approval rating.
Because he didn't stand there and get beat to a pulp and neither did his administration.
The "Do not fight back at your detractors" approach by Bush is sickening.
Take your pick, but remember my vote counts as much as yours.
Bush's low poll numbers come from conservative disappointment in a number of his positions.
And that is as accurate an assessment as there is out there.
And the straw that has broken the back, IMHO, is his continued opposition to the stark measures, needed to be taken in order, to secure our border from the hordes to the south.
Right on.
To name a few I am unhappy about:
Signing "Campaign Finance Reform" unconstitutional
Poor illegal alien policy
Excessive spending with no real cuts
Having an out of control FCC with censorship
"No child left behind"
Faith based initiative - keep church and state separate
Medicare prescription drug plan
A tax code that has not become more simple
Federal drug enforcement
Increased regulations in certain areas
Things I do like:
Tax Cuts
War on the nuts
Promotion of SS privatization
reduced gun control
"The Donner Party" is a good name for the party that some of the people that want to go 3rd party could use.
It kind of fits the mind set.
What most conservatives and what most Americans remember about President Ronald Reagan was that he was a great leader on both domestic policy and foreign policy.
Reagan won two huge historic landslide victories in 1980 and 1984. He beat Carter by almost 10%, and with 489 electoral votes to 49 for Jimmah. In 1984, Reagan beat Mondale by over 18% of the popular vote, and a record 525 electoral votes to 13 for Fritz!
Reagan has EARNED the REVERENCE he receives. OTOH, while the rhetoric is sometimes over the top, Bush deserves all the criticism he receives for a lousy domestic policy agenda. Bush has made some serious bureaucratic blunders and political errors in judgment. You get whats coming to you.
A few more disappointments:
Harriet Meiers
backing Arlen Spectre over a conservative in the primaries, and leaving Sanatorum out to dry (kill 2 conservatives with one stone!)
getting beat to a pulp daily
illegals
illegals
illegals (type 12 million times:)
I have heard, but I might be wrong...that Reagan had even lower ratings than Bush has had...at some point in Reagan's presidency...
If not lower, than just as low...also, Reagan didn't have a war like WE are having to fight...he didn't have Katrina..he also was elected right after beating one of the worst all time POTUS' there ever was...and the Iran hostage situation..
PLUS, he didn't have the type of beginning in office like Bush had, with the election screw up and such.
Reagan lovers need to take the blinders off...just as we Bushbots have had to do, many times.
Are you gonna be stupid and vote 3rd party, or dem...just to get back at President Bush and the Republicans, like so many on FR are planning to do??
Read my post #92...
I do consider voting Libertarian. It would take a very conservative Democrat to get my vote (Zell Miller). I will probably still vote Republican despite my disgust. It would depend on the Democratic candidate.
President Reagan had NO media, none. He fought his own fights.
Comparing a great President like Reagan to Bush is assinine.
Patches Kennedy, Lisa Minelli (pleeze!), the Nelsons, Lisa Marie.
Thank goodness Liberace didn't produce any offspring or we might have a Senator Liberace, Jr. now!
"I do consider voting Libertarian."
LOL. The "open borders" party.
These threads really bring out the Bush-bashing trolls.
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