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Hard Core Republicans Are Fleeing President
The Washington Post ^ | May 11, 2006 | JIm VandeHei and Peter Baker

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adolescents; borderlist; bush; bushbots; conservatives; gopcheerleader; sickofrinos; wetoleratenodissent
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To: You Dirty Rats

Yes, that must have been the plan Kerry was going to show us once he was in office. /Sarcasm.


221 posted on 05/10/2006 8:11:24 PM PDT by maxter (To our elected leaders: It's all about spending and securing our borders.)
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To: Peach

You and I quote from the same section of the White House document. But while you see progress, I see failure. 600,000 captured but how many got through? You can apprehend 600,000, which admitedly is a large number, but for how many is this their second, third or fourth time caught? The actual number of unique individuals may be a lot less. Reminds me of our VC KIA in Vietnam -- we kept hitting the same bunker over and over again and reported new success in dispatching the enemy. But how many were just guestimates since we had no way of knowing how many we actually killed and pressure was always there to up the body count. I suspect this is the same here: to puff up the BP success to get more money and to deflect from the policy failure. No, the only thing that will stop them from coming across is a secure barrier, not a virtual one.


222 posted on 05/10/2006 8:11:33 PM PDT by CedarDave (Gen. McCaffrey: "There is a rapidly growing animosity" among U.S. troops in Iraq toward the press...)
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To: SouthernFreebird

Romper room?




That's exactly how you all act and where you belong when you don't have the patience to wait and find out the facts first.


223 posted on 05/10/2006 8:11:34 PM PDT by AmeriBrit (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, IT INCLUDES TERRORIST SLEEPER CELLS!!)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
And the country may be safer from terrorists from Afghanistan and Iraq than it was five years ago, which is great and important; but meanwhile we're being invaded from the south and this president is doing nothing but urging us to sit back and take it.

The country may be safer?

this president is doing nothing?

Where did you get your talking points?

For God's sake, don't read the article AmeriBritposted:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/immigration/

Wouldn't want you to get confused with any facts.

Yep. Pick up your marbles and run home to mommy

224 posted on 05/10/2006 8:11:45 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." LINCOLN)
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To: MJY1288

I had high hopes for this president on day one.


225 posted on 05/10/2006 8:11:58 PM PDT by luvbach1 (More true now than ever: Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: ilovew


This thread was about illegals and you were pinged by the same bunch I see on every illegal thread saying the same ole crap. "The dems are gonna take it we're all doomed all because of us sleeper DU's, fringe, one issue idiots blah blah blah."


226 posted on 05/10/2006 8:12:02 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: SoCalPol

I have no problem with those who think immigration is a serious problem, as you stated. It's the people who start trashing the president, the people who pretend to be conservative but are actually liberals or third party lovers, and the whiners that I can't stand.


227 posted on 05/10/2006 8:12:18 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Another hot steaming scoop from Jim VandeHype of the Compost.


228 posted on 05/10/2006 8:12:33 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Liberals saying "We Support The Troops" is like OJ looking for the real killers.)
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To: AmeriBrit

Secure the border FIRST. Then discuss the guest worker BS.


229 posted on 05/10/2006 8:13:20 PM PDT by Junior_G
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To: maxter

Yes, I can imagine this country with that group in charge. It's the stuff nightmares are made of.


230 posted on 05/10/2006 8:13:36 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The president talked about a guest worker programs when he ran for re-election.

Name me one other person who is going to run for the presidency who actually has a chance of winning who will run on the issue of immigration in the way you want.

For that matter, name me one presidential candidate who has ever run on this issue. Just one name will do.


231 posted on 05/10/2006 8:13:47 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Doctor Raoul
It's the Post, you'll need a second source on that.

LOL

232 posted on 05/10/2006 8:13:54 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
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To: luvbach1

Has he let you down?


233 posted on 05/10/2006 8:13:54 PM PDT by MJY1288 (THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
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To: SouthernFreebird
I thought you were fighting off all of these Mexican chickens terrorizing your neighborhood.
234 posted on 05/10/2006 8:14:04 PM PDT by Texasforever (I have neither been there nor done that.)
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To: SouthernFreebird

Fine, if the rats being in charge doesn't concern you, all the better for you. You won't have any problems with your conscience when they destroy our country. I, however, intend to keep that from happening. And I don't need you in order to accomplish that.


235 posted on 05/10/2006 8:14:19 PM PDT by ilovew (Democrat enablers are not conservatives.)
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To: AmeriBrit
That's exactly how you all act and where you belong when you don't have the patience to wait and find out the facts first.

Dude, I'm living the facts, no way in hades can you tell me there is not an illegal problem. No way is it being addressed.

236 posted on 05/10/2006 8:14:19 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: SouthernFreebird

I see the Open Borders Freepers are circling the wagons, re-arranging the deck chairs, performing triage, marking foreheads with lipstick--cussing out the dying . . . .
I almost forgot: I'm a xenophobic, racist bigot! But wait--that was last week; this week we're "hysterical!" That's the latest adjective from the `neener-neener' crowd.
It's like liberals and their "McCarthyism!" or Aladdin and his `Open Sesame!'.


237 posted on 05/10/2006 8:14:32 PM PDT by OkieDoke (OK you mugs--secure the borders and we won't shoot the dog, see?)
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To: org.whodat
put an end to the Iraq war Who besides liberals is asking for this? I for one think it's gone on way too long. And I'm a conservative and a Vet.

WW11 went on way too long, also.

Sure glad we didn't cut and run tho' - German's a hard language to learn

238 posted on 05/10/2006 8:14:43 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." LINCOLN)
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To: Jorj X. McKie

You just joined 2 weeks ago and think you know about freepers carrying the president's water? Please.


239 posted on 05/10/2006 8:14:45 PM PDT by Peach
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To: KJC1

I don't consider voting third party a proxy vote for a Democrat. I will vote for the candidate who is the most conservative, regardless of party. How I feel about the President makes no difference in how I'll vote for other offices. It just so happens that both my Representative and Senator are both conservative and Republican, so they will earn my vote come November.

However, of John McCain happens to be the Republican nominee in '08 I will look elsewhere.


240 posted on 05/10/2006 8:15:25 PM PDT by Doohickey (Democrats are nothing without a constituency of victims.)
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