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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"I really fine you adhoren abhorrent to
Good. Then stop.
If you think he's done something illegal, then get him brought up on charges. Again, I assure you that it would have already happened if his Democratic opponents believed for a nanosecond that he could be indicted. But your hate for Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo seems to know no bounds. Maybe you can succeed where the Democrats have failed. Go for it or shut up - you and your fellow Tancredo Trashers all.
Nor does your rhetoric.
Also, Tancy is a tool for the Dems, they most likely applaud his rhetoric.
You are delusional. Your hate for Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo who chairs the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus which enjoys membership by the most conservative 38% of Republicans in Congress and who has a 100% "Best and Brightest" rating from the American Conservative Union has made you demonstrably irrational. Saying that Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo is a "tool for the Dems" is like saying the President Bush is a tool for the terrorists.
How about promoting conservative Republicans for a change. That is what this site is designed for, in case you missed it.
Tancredo is a one-issue Grandstander with Buchanan ties and has zero chance of National election.
I've made that clear. I'm not going to do your homework for you. Suffice it to say, I'm still here. Why don't you check my recent posting history to see for yourself.
Tancredo is a one-issue Grandstander with Buchanan ties and has zero chance of National election.
If Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo was only about one issue, he would not enjoy a 100% American Conservative Union, "Best and Brightest" rating. Now, would he?
The Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus that he formed enjoys members who make up over 2/3rds of those who received the 100% "Best and Brightest" rating from the American Conservative Union.
National election? Who knows. I'm not putting him forward as a serious candidate. Why did you bring that up?
As for your unbound hatred for Pat Buchanan and his family, that's a topic for a completely different discussion. All I wish to say about that in this thread that your hatred for the Buchanans causes your posts to be as irrational as your hatred for Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo.
That hatred you display isn't healthy and it poisons the environment on Free Republic and is nowhere near rational debate or discussion. Your drive-by smears are legion.
I hate neither Tom or Bay or Pat.
Stop knee jerking, it makes you look hysterical.
Adios.
That seething hatred is palpable in your posts about Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo and the Buchanans.
One of your cohorts posted a nazi image in a post about Pat Buchanan yesterday, trying to associate him with nazis and Adolf Hitler.
Another ally of yours demonstrated his delight in the idea of Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo dying a gruesome death.
I'm not hysterical. I can point you to those posts if you haven't already read them.
I don't like the irrational hatred I see some people directing towards President Bush either. The moderators seem to have a handle on that. What they don't seem to have a handle on is the constant smears and attacks against Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo who enjoys a 100% "Best and Brightest" rating from the American Conservative Union.
Done.
I love President Bush!
Why are you ALWAYS so extremist and wrong? Sheesh.
I wanted to make it clear that no offense was intended. I've replied to you privately.
thank you I replied to you too and also apologized to you!
Well said, Spiff.
Please don't invite me to your Frigilante Back Slapping Circle Jerks in the future.
I know that you fellas are all anti-Bush.
Go Bush Go
I'm anti-Bush? Really? When did I say that? You're lying again.
Did you know that being against certain of Bush's positions does not equal anti-Bush? That's an illogical thought process.
There are logic courses online. Perhaps you might want to take some.
Your childish tagline for starters...
You think it says I'm "anti-Bush"?
Perhaps you need reading classes, too. Those are also online.
No, I think it means that you are a whiney Frigilante that is unappeasable and childish.
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