Posted on 05/10/2006 7:15:13 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives to take flight from President Bush and the Republican Congress at a rapid pace in recent weeks, sending Bush's approval ratings to record lows and presenting a new threat to the GOP's 12-year reign on Capitol Hill, according to White House officials, lawmakers and new polling data.
Bush and Congress have suffered a decline in support from almost every part of the conservative coalition over the past year, a trend that has accelerated with alarming implications for Bush's governing strategy.
The Gallup polling organization recorded a 13-percentage-point drop in Republican support for Bush in the past couple weeks. These usually reliable voters are telling pollsters and lawmakers they are fed up with what they see as out-of-control spending by Washington and an abandonment of core conservative principles more generally.
There are also significant pockets of conservatives turning on Bush and Congress over the their failure to tighten immigration laws, restrict gay marriage and to put an end to the Iraq war and the rash of political scandals, according to lawmakers and pollsters.
Bush won two presidential elections by pursuing a political and governing model that was predicated on winning and sustaining the loyal backing of social, economic and foreign policy conservatives. The strategy was based on the belief that conservatives, who are often more politically active than the general public, could be inspired to vote in larger numbers and would serve as a reliable foundation for his presidency. The theory, as explained by Bush strategists, is that the president would enjoy a floor below which his support would never fall.
It is now apparent that this floor has weakened dramatically and collapsed in places.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Correct
And certainly not on this thread.
Right again M.
"Is it as twisted as having a child molester WHO HAS NOT DENIED IT as a leader of your group?"
No, it isn't, Howlin.
You're quoting a single source, a source that is headed by a man who was shown to have molested his own stepdaughter in open court, with a political agenda to disparage any and all things conservative, including the Minutemen, in order to condemn a man because he has not sued. That's truly convoluted. Admit it. You're wrong here.
I get it. Thanks.
Wrong about what? Saying his wife said he tried to molest his daughter? That he hasn't denied it? That he refuses to answer questions about it?
That's what she said. Live with it.
And her being banned from FR was her fault.
I'd believe Simcox's daughter before I believe Simcox himself.
Okay, so here we are again. Do we agree with the positive assessment of her on the SPLC website, or not?
"That's what she said. Live with it."
So the Southern Poverty Law Center, your only cite for the charge, is an unimpeachable source, in your opinion?
If so, good grief ... this is madness. I'm going to call it a night.
Good night, Howlin. I'm sure we'll cross paths tomorrow.
And if you can't try them in the courts you try them in the public court where anything goes.
Tried and true...and still working, obviously.
I was. I have not been happy with the senate Republicans, but I have supported them and tried hard to understand their maneuvers, only to discover they don't have any.
I have been patient with Bush and liked many of the things he has done, but they have not been large issues except Afghanistan, Iraq, and the court nominees, and they haven't been lately. I could even handle the atrocious spending if it was being spent of national security, border patrol, and training replacements for all the Clinton appointees that have NEVER been fired but should be, energy and infrastructure. But that's not how it's being spent by and large. My issue is waste more so than it is the total amount being spent. If the spending improves our lives in terms of national security measures, cheaper and more plentiful energy production, and improved infrastructures all for generations to come, I can deal with that debt. But not this, no way.
Congressional Republicans, mostly those in the senate, have been a big disappointment, and Bush has been off the dime for too long. Bush and the senate Republicans just WILL NOT engage the Dems AND THE MEDIA in the trenches and fight it out. I'm sick of paying the freight for ALL of them. You could roll the entire congress together and this administration, and all of them together have less value to me than one single soldier fighting the fight or standing ready.
That is the question. WHY WON'T HE???? he has the ability, he has the opportunity, but he sits there like a deaf mute while the Clintons and the Dems run circles around him and the senate Republicans. What point is there for the House to act when they get no support from the upper chamber and the WH?
I don't even pretend to speak for her. Make of it what you will. I find it consistent, given that her presence here at FR wasn't needed. She banned herself. Her problem. Not mine.
You didn't answer my question.
I agree, but I also see no value in accepting betrayal and/or polticial incompetence in silence. I don't think supporting the party with our votes has to be synonomous with remaining silent, bending over, and taking it.
WE THE PEOPLE.. Remember that?
Probably because you change the subject when I answer them directly.
Agree 100%.
The question is, Do we agree with the positive assessment of Connie Hair on the SPLC website, or not?
Irrelevant to the thread.
Whoa! I hadn't heard this. Is this for real? Somebody has levied a child molestation claim against Morrie Dees?
Is it a legit claim?
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