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 ...
What, threads are hermetically sealed now? That wasn't an argument from another thread. It was a very inconvenient comment by which Howlin torpedoed her own argument in this thread.
You're the only one who took issue with it, which proves my point you're obsessed with Howlin
Window dressing. Don't listen to their words; watch their actions. So far, their actions aren't all that impressive.
Sorry, the scare tactic isn't going to work this time.
Wrong. Many argued with her. I'm the only one who noticed the point of fatal vulnerability of her argument, and successfully used it.
I have now debated with you for quite a while (and apparently people are timing me, now). Am I obsessed with you, too?
It's all a matter of action and reaction.
Be the Republican party we expect and votes follow.
All we hope is they will secure the border and tell the mexican govt to stop pushing their nationals on us.
Keep it up for a few days, track my posts, follow me from thread to thread and I'll let you know. If following Howlin from thread to thread, day in and day out, hanging onto every post of Howlin's with some insane weird notion you're trying to shoot down some fantasy argument isn't some chronic obsession you have, I don't know what else to call it.
What is your point? If you are replying to my statement, you need to go back and re-read it.
Oh good grief. I go months without posting anything. When I do post, I post to lots of people; I engage in debates occasionally. I guess that makes me a complete anomaly on this forum.
Informative and civil response. Thank you.
as for the GOP BEFORE COUNTRY posters here ignore them they have an agenda and perhaps are paid posters who knows?? IF their posts ring a bit
too loyal to the GOP you will know them.
Ignore him Thatcher. He's doing a rope-a-dope on you.
Trying to ignore Howlin is like trying to ignore a splinter.
It's not your fault she's interested AND wrong about the same issues you care about.
Since when do "conservatives" not "give a crap" about selective enforcement of the law?
Actually, Howlin was doing rope-a-dope. Her minion seems to have gone to sleep.
I see you are "obsessed" with Howlin. Heh.
Only if you can call the desire to have the logical equivalent of a boil lanced, "obsessed."
The only thing that matters, and the ComPost knows this too, is whether BillyBob -- who is currently enjoying a full fishing season and doesn't give a rat's butt about some DC commie spreading ComPost -- is going to change his vote against his longtime GOP Congressman; and if gas is under $3.00 come Election Day, he ain't.
They lost me when they stood around and let Terri Schiavo be dehydrated and starved to death. I re-registered Decline to State.
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