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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Bashing Bush over this is indeed single-issue. There is a lot more shyte going on than this right now. What I don't get are those alleged conservatives and/or Republicans who are talking about "teaching the GOP a lesson" by burning the whole house down by effectively electing Rats.
Dude! He's a she!
Prove it.
You love to throw out your little witticisms - hope it livens up your dreary existence, but try someone else. You don't impress me.
(...yeah and I'm sure I don't impress you either...neener, neener and all that childish crap you guys love to throw around).
Sorry. Blow that out your backside. You guys seem to think the president gets a pass for actively trying to shaft us all on immigration, trade, etc because he is defending us from terrorism. He doesn't get a pass on doing one part of his job because he is doing another. That isn't the way it works for anyone in the real world. He is not just failing to do his duty, he's actually trying to hide behind rhetoric as a means to avoid doing what is right. And so are you. As I noted before, you guys can whimper and whine about what might happen or beg Clinton getting elected as some scare tactic. All you demonstrate is that it is *YOU* who are scared you won't be allowed to get away further with what is attempting to be gotten away with now. And we expected that. So you've said *nothing*. People are responsible for how they vote. But it is the parties that are responsible for the *why* of it. Republicans have NO ONE to blame but themselves for Clinton. No one.
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." -- H. L. Mencken
I have become convinced that these people are not so much disgruntled pubs but DU sleepers practicing the subversion that is a commie trait
None of them could be concerned citizens that live in invaded areas?
:) If we got 60 votes and still couldn't pass SS legislation then I'd blame the Republicans. But as it is now, the rats can still block us.
As she stops her little foot and sticks her tongue out.
Actually, I would consider it very relevant to this topic.
Chasing away conservatives with honest questions serves to destroy the conservative base the Republican Party needs at this juncture in time. Rather than bashing conservative FReepers posting here, please post your idea of constructive answers to the problem at hand.
By the way, there's a lot of difference between people bashing the President and people who want existing immigration laws enforced (no bashing in THAT whatsoever).
Lol me too.
pssst...Washington Compost..dubya isn't running for election again.
Peach,
I think there are a few that are, but some very fine FReepers who happen to disagree on this subject are being called out as trolls and it really is not right.
I can look at your opinions and respectfully disagree, but it bothers me when things devolve to the point where the namecalling and mudslinging takes over a thread.
Sometimes, (not always, I admit) thoughtful discussion can actually change the way we look at things. Nasty remarks tend to harden opinions and don't really promote an exchange of ideas.
Are we, or are we not in the majority? Why do you blame the rats for obstructing Socialist Insecurity reform when we are in the majority?
And I disagree with your disagreement. Shouldn't we be calling each other names or something?
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