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 ...
Pinging La Dita... interesting post.
Stuff it up your own. After all, YOU guys will be the ones putting them in office/oriface.
Yep. Let the rats get control - that'll teach 'em good.
watch the rats execute their plan to deep-six the electoral college and see what happens - the red state votes will NOT COUNT...wake up and smell the roses.
This AMAZES me that people who were born and raised in this country do NOT acknowledge that and you, as a naturalized citizen, DO!
Where the hell do they think the interstates came from?
If a few years ago these marches were predicted for the future we would have assumed that it surely would have happened under a liberal Kennedy-type President.
Bears repeating... colorful way to put it, but I agree with every word.
The media attempts to divide the Republican party are increasing daily now-looks like it is working
And here's another one:
The "roaring" economy that seems only able to create low-wage service jobs.
Don't tell me you don't actually believe Lou Dobbs is about to do to Fox, what Fox did to CNN?
He's not even close.
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Wanna bet?
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/april_s_dobbs_close_to_hume_in_demo_36267.asp
He's doing *exactly* what Fox News did to CNN, and what Rush Limbaugh did to all of radio. He's being a true conservative, in that most capitalist of ways - he's providing a product that people want.
Debbs is saying what a lot of people BELIEVE.
And he's going to win more viewers every week until someone else realizes what's happening.
It really is just like the MSM. On topic. Carefully pretending there's no controversy. CNN in 1995, studiously spinning while the network president dined with William Jefferson and slept in the Whitehouse.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Pay no attention to that broadcaster behind the curtain...
And I suggest that the entitlement mentality is running roughshod over the sense of personal responsibility....to the detriment of the entire country.
My 72 year old mother is perfectly capable of paying for her medicines, yet she was forced into the program. My children will pay for this stupidity for the rest of their lives.
The comparison to war bonds is inapposite....that effort benefited the entire country...then, and now. The medicare prescription drug benefit is a direct transfer from younger generations to older generations....a claim on the fruits of their labor with no concommitant obligation to return any portion of it to them. NONE. That's redistributive socialism dressed up as compassionate conservatism.
I won't try to teach Repubs a lesson. I will vote Republican as usual.
Who is "you guys" and what the hell are you talking about?
Thank you onyx, I know you understand the big picture of the issue having lived here for so many yrs.
The trolls don't want to have a two sided discussion.
they are on a mission and it ain't to find out facts.
Translation: "I'm looking to throw my vote away and in so doing, give it to the rats"
No, what I'm saying is talk to your representatives. Vote for conservatives in the primary. But do NOT let the rats take control.
Smells like troll funk to me!
I got that... just wanted to put a finer point on it. Good post.
I think you were talking to one. He's another sign up from September/October '04. You and I may have differences on this issue, but we don't resort to insults and name calling.
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