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 ...
We could make a fortune here selling laxatives.
I've never seen so many FOS people.
Another 10/2004 sign-up.
Why is it that the vast majority of you people who signed up just prior to the 2004 election talk like DU plants?
We will start suspending anybody and everybody who addresses Illegal Immigration where it is irrelevant. Keep On Topic!
that was posted by Admin Moderator April 25...
Admin Mod - Where are you :o(
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Excuse me. Quoting the first 11 words of the first article:
"Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives to take flight ..."
Stand your ground. Why do you want our borders to remain unprotected?
If you don't want that - why are you enabling that?
As in all important issues, the President's most important role is one of advocacy. The President uses his influence and political capital to get what he wants from Congress, as he tried to do with Social Security reform and is trying to do with immigration reform. He has done nothing in his second term with the issue of homosexual marriage. We assume that the judges he has appointed (most of them, anyway) will vote against the erasing of Defense of MArriage Acts across the country, but we can't be sure. And as far as passing a constitutional amendment, nothing productive has been done on that score. It is a useful issue to most Washignton Republicans, nothing more.
Isn't that the truth.
One if by land, two if by sea, three if by CNN?
I did read the post, idiot. It's not my fault you can't make yourself clear. Try thinking before typing.
Is he engaged? Someone had better tell Laura.
Some on FR that say they'd vote for a DUmocrat should read up on history a bit:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1499184/posts
It's difficult to find a candidate that would agree 100% with a RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST like myself, but I'll work within the GOP to find the candidate that's best for the country.
Hell will freeze over before I pull a lever for a Dem....unless it's attached to gallows.
OK...SO WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER TO ALL THE PROBLEMS! VOTE FOR NANCY (BUG EYES) PALOSI? HOW ABOUT THE SENATE LED BY HARRY REED? GET REAL FOLKS. I'M NOT HAPPY ETHER, BUT WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE? STAYING HOME! THAT'S HOW CLINTON GOT ELECTED...PISSED OFF, SPOILED REPUBLICANS. YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERTHING. TAXES ARE DOWN, ECONOMY IS GOOD. BUSH WILL FIX THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. OH YES...WHICH ONE OF YOU EVER THOUGHT WE WOULD BE 5 YEARS AFTER 9/11 AND NOT HIS AGAIN BY TERRORISTS?
Well, that confirms a suspicion of mine.
They are corroding this site - seems like a lot signed on around the time Blather-Rather was taken down. (Actually, I did too - that's when I became aware of FR - and it was my sanity saver in a insane time) -
Looks like FR has become a deliberate target - we know how the libs are at irrational pay back - and they are using tactics straight out of the Communist Party handbook. Infiltrate-lay low - plot,plan and strike when right.
Are we going to let this continue?
Why don't you stop talking to me? I don't remember giving a damn what you think.
Just some random keyboard punching.
Thanks, Peach. I did see that. Another lie from the MSM? Color me shocked!
Anyway, I do disagree with the President's immigration policy. He honestly think he believes that his is the best course of action, and I respect that. I don't regret voting for him twice, despite that disagreement.
My major issue is with the Republican-controlled Congress over their profligate spending. The President shares culpability because of his refusal to exercise his veto.
The premise of the article is flawed, but these discussions are important to have no matter how they tax our patience. Anyone who would not vote for a conservative Republic because they don't like George W. Bush is an idiot.
However, it is high time for Republican politicians to quit lurching to the left. This is becoming more and more common - do they not realize that Republicans are elected by conservatives, not liberals or moderates?
Just because you don't personally consider that a vote for Rats doesn't make that a fact. I think it's a way of feeling better about yourself if a Rat wins and knowing you threw your vote away.
However, of John McCain happens to be the Republican nominee in '08 I will look elsewhere.
Don't even talk about McCain, there is no way he'll be the nominee.
Jim Robinson knows as well as anyone what's going on. He and the mods can fix it; in the meantime, I'll be darned if I'm going to let the hysterics drive the agenda.
Of course they were not. But they damned sure are coming to a head.
Why don't you guys stuff Hillary and Kerry up one of your personal orifaces of your own choosing and take responsibility for your own failings. If you stopped worrying about what you think will be the result of others abandoning you because of your behavior and concentrated on fixing your behavior, you wouldn't have anything to worry about. It isn't their fault that you will not do your job, will not listen and will not do what's right for the country. That rests at the doorstep of the GOP. And, if you haven't figured it out, these people had it with the Dems and threw them out. Now they've had it with the GOP. What did you think would happen when the public is already fed to the teeth with this stuff.. let it pass when they've gotten used to doing something about it.. Grow up and take responsibility or go down with your ship and shut up.
That's uncalled for.
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