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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Did Simcox attempt to feel up his own daughter, or not? His first wife filed a criminal charge against him stating that he did.
It is another '04 sign on.
Move along.
Nope as related by one of his own. Jim Spencer. You really need to keep up.
They're easy to find. Just go to any Bush bashing or "GOP base fleeing in droves" thread and there they are.
Well, you're proving my points pretty vividly.
RINOs are now demonstrating that they will stoop to anything to destroy the Minutemen.
You've descended even further than I thought you were capable.
Carville and Begala are lurking to learn from you.
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.
"Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, and GOP leaders are well aware of the problem and are planning a summer offensive to win back conservatives with a mix of policy fights and warnings of how a Democratic Congress would govern. The plan includes votes on tax cuts, a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, new abortion restrictions, and measures to restrain government spending."
Don't see a change to this administrations PRIORITIES on immigration. Guest workers first, enforcement last. Buried under all the talk, that's what it amounts to.
Adding 2,700 border patrol is nothing.
They have signed up 35 million people for government paid senior drugs, but can't require employers to REALLY verify workers' legal right to be inside our borders.
If government administrative procedures can handle 35 million, surely they can handle 11 million, ONLY IF there was political will and every sign says there is NOT.
If Bush's efforts between now and November are to stand ANY chance of turning this, they MUST include a CHANGE in his immigration PRIORITIES.
If he and Rove don't know that, they are far from as smart as we have previously thought.
FGS, you've been saying that same thing for five years; mostly every single time somebody stands up to you.
We're conservatives, too, just not your type of conservative.
gotta agree - I finally got it...Du sleepers that have been dutifully and with malice aforethought, hanging around until they got their orders and issue...
The extremist anti-Bush rhetoric, while it may make some of these wimps feel manly, is 100% counterproductive.
There are enough of us on both sides to get something rolling here. We are Americans and we are CONSERVATIVES. We can do something if we put our heads together.
My advice........ignore the idiots who say moronic things like "bush is killing us" Only converse with the rational folks, because I think we all want the same thing.
A disruptor like daguberment is deliberately working at cross purposes with every conservative on this forum.
These thugs need to be shunned...........shut out of the conversation, so that like minded people with variations of ideas but the same goal, can get this job done.
The Minutemen will destroy themselves unless they change their nutball leadership.
Please put me a list of those who continue to stand with President Bush.
The turncoats make me puke about the same as the libs...in some cases, even more.
A bunch of conservatives had that bright idea in 92, and look what that got us..
Howlin taught me early on to confirm things that are put forth, to confirm what is written or said.
I'm willing to reach out to like minded posters and sanely come to an agreement that benefits us us both.
Absolutely 100 percent correct!
Keep it rational, OK? onyx is NOT your enemy, no matter how hard you try to make her so.
Unlike YOU, I don't equate the MINUTEMEN with that one guy. You are pathetically clueless.
Heh.
I'm referring to coworkers, family, friends and the people I see and meet on a daily basis.
I know hardcore republicans who stood by Bush 100% on every issue from 2000 thru 2002, 2004 but now only one says he will still vote republican but he "will hold his nose" when he does. All the others claim they will either vote 3rd party in November or they will not vote at all.
Secondly, whether I was right or wrong, I did support Reagan's Amnesty back in 1986. We were told that anybody who comes to this country illegally after that magic date would be deported and that our borders would be more secure.
Well, our government failed us. For that reason, I do NOT support Amnesty in 2006. If we accept that, we will always be discussing this issue and eventually we will be doing so in the spanish language. There must be a line drawn.
Wake up and smell the salsa. This problem has gotten infinitely worse since 2000, and measurably worse even since 2004, and all our President can do is blather about "jobs Americans won't do." I am behind him 1000% on taxes and the war, but he is failing miserably on illegal immigration and to many Americans, this goes to the very heart of what our country is about - the rule of law and respect for authority. If a President cannot stand up for that, what good is he?
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