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.
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Blaming the victim, I see.
WE are victims of politicians.
I seriously laughed out loud on this one! You are the second person on this thread to claim victim status in some fashion. For cryin' out loud, you have your vote, use it wisely. No one guarantees you perfection or "have it your way" however.
I've got past the point of caring what you or anyone else thinks whose aim is to destroy the Presidency and Republican Party.
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"I support President Bush and the Republicans whether I agree with them on every issue or not. I despise the Democrats and everything they stand for.
1,369 posted on 05/11/2006 4:45:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1630233/posts?page=1369
And I'm in line right behind you Jim......AmeriBrit
Me: I disagree. There would be plenty of blame to go around including the voters who would allow such a thing to happen.
Blaming the victim, I see. WE are victims of politicians.
No.
If the voters allow the party of treason the Democrats to win, you can bet your individual-responsibility butt the voters would be responsible for voting in such a despicable party.
Now if one were to think that the Democrat party wasn't despicable, then I could see your point.
Do you?
I guess you think that using discipline on misbehaving children is the same thing as "destroying" them.
"I guess you think that using discipline on misbehaving children is the same thing as "destroying" them."
Here, Let me fix that!
I am just completely disgusted with these eunuchs we've elected. Gutless idiots.
I AGREE!
nope, Your'e still pissed about at that squish Rumsfeld arent you?
But I was waiting for YOUR solution, which you fail to provide after I've asked several times. You disappoint me.
Oh and yea, all of my clothes are wash and wear. And me with two cans of spray starch.
So have me arrested or STFU.
You have no idea what happened with FR and Connie Hair! Do some research first, then shoot your mouth off!
Oh, and while you're at it, try to form a coherent, principled argument for your positions instead of the whole ad hominem thing.
Ok. You are a supreme dumbass.
No I am saying that I don't believe you are an active agent.
Do you read the posts addressed to you?
I said I don't care.
It's better you keep getting away with it.
There is no stopping the invasion at this time.
It has to get a lot worse to wake up America.
Start a large project if you can.
Hire anyone you like. Pay them in cash. Mexico needs the money.
But on the off chance you are and I substantiate it I will make a complaint about your using your position to "inform" us that we are breaking the law.
I am not abadoning the President, I will still vote republican. I'd even vote for Jeb Bush for President.
How does one abandon George W since he is not running again?
Sound like Left wing crap to me.
Ops4 God Bless George W.
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