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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Were you HEALED? Gack!
Ok, this is getting nowhere. Now you're handwringing and making excuses. This is why the GOP is in trouble and headed for irrelevancy. Given the choice between the right thing and the profitable thing, you choose to profit. Have you spent the thirty pieces of silver you saved or are you framing them as a reminder?
Ah, you are an anklebiter then..? Were you not, there is a more civil approach to what you just did. So, I'm giving you pretty wide lattitude here to hang yourself.
Sleep it off, Havoc. You're a busybody who has plenty of slivers in his own eye to keep busy for quite a while.
"Hell for all I know Tancredo may be a flaming liberal. You say he is conservative because he is pushing immigration reform. I think he found an issue that allowed him to renege on his term limit promise but that's just me. Can you list his stances on anything other than immigration?."
He's ten times the conservative George Bush is.
I suggest you look up his A from the national taxpayers union, vote on CAFTA, high marks from the NRA, his stance on Teipei among other things.
But you just go right ahead parroting the term limit thing, as if the republicans you like are 100% pure.
WOW 10 times I would have thought he would have been a bizzilion times. The guy is a slacker...and a felon to boot.
"You on the other hand are a groupie."
And you AREN'T?
You're a total tool from the RNC, I just hope you're getting a paycheck for all that shilling.
Hell yes.
Sleep it off? Nah, I'm working with others to do something about it. IF you need to quote scripture to yourself to sooth your conscience and delude yourself, you go right ahead and waller in it. I have no use for it. We all have our problems, Sink; but deluding oneself is not dealing with them.
And where the party is concerned, when it self-destructs, you can comfort yourself with delusions then too. Delusion is pretty vacant.
Have you developed a conscience yet?
When it comes to you? Hell no. You are the biggest whiner on the Internet.
How is he a slacker?
And a felon considering that it's unclear if the illegals even worked in Tancredo's basement? Or did someone forget the law says "knowingly"?
When it comes to you? Hell no. You are the biggest whiner on the Internet.
I AM THE BIGGEST WHINER ON THE INTERNET
I thought your were smuggling lesbians across the border.
Who on here said that someone who hires a contractor who after the fact said he uses illegals and the illegals may or may not have ever been in someones' house unknowingly is guilty of a felony?
You're full of it.
Read the damned thread.
Lesbian smuggling is only a sideline. As is printing boot leg bibles with passages of Origin of the Species inserted into the text.
Oh man you are a mass murderer.
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