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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In separate interviews with the Intelligence Report, two of Simcox's former colleagues at Wildwood and his first ex-wife gave the same account. They said that Simcox helped his daughter get a job babysitting for a Wildwood School employee and that one night, Simcox's daughter showed up unexpectedly at her employer's house, visibly upset, alleging that her father had just attempted to sexually molest her."He tried to molest our daughter when he was intoxicated," said Deborah Crews, Simcox's first ex-wife and the girl's mother. "When she ran out, he tried to say he was just giving her a leg massage and she got the wrong idea."
Contacted by the Report, Simcox refused to answer four direct questions about the molestation allegations. "I would never answer those questions to you. You can't ask those questions," he said. "You're on a witch hunt and you're trying to discredit our movement, which is to secure the borders. ... My personal life has nothing to do with anything that goes on here."
This Morris Dees?
Perhaps explaining the SPLC's 'Gay' rights activism, Dees was cited in 1979 by his ex-wife with a homosexual encounter during their marriage. She also cited numerous affairs with women including his daughter-in-law and underage stepdaughter. [Alabama Court of Civil Appeals CIV 2114, 1979] http://www.slrc-csa.org/site/pr/2002/pr05-24-2002.php
The guy stumped for McGovern and ran as a Sierra Club candidate and now he's your source? I suggest you stick to the issue and stop participating in leftist Jerry Springer style smear tactics. It cuts both ways.
The DU does itself and its party a dis-service by banning those who wish to discuss an issue they may disagree with. You go visit them and you will swear to God that the majority of Americans support democrats and hate Bush.
Because they ban like that, they live in their own world and they begin to believe it. Then, the day after the election they are TOTALLY baffled! How could they possibly have lost seats! Impossible! Everybody hates republicans! It just has to be a conspiracy and somehow the GOP stole the election...
They got lost in their own political world. They banned so many that they got a false sense of a coming politcal victory because everybody agreed with them in their little newsgroup. Such censureship is not only a recipe for a political disaster but makes for an awefully boring discussion board.
Good catch. Of course, these people don't really care if their sources are credible or not, they just want to bash the Minutemen movement.
Oh, the dog will not be happy about that!
"We sure are --- we're damn sick of your arrogant attitude and your bashing of almost every elected Republican."
Thank you, Gator113!
Regrettably, it's the truth.
Great! Then we should have NOTHING to worry about.
There is not a damn thing wrong with that I was just as mad when I saw the demonstrations as you are. BUT, Bush has a soft spot Hispanics. He always has. There will be no wall on his watch and no matter how much you want to piss and moan he will not build one. Yes illegal immigration is a big problem it has been a big problem for 40 years. When I look at the things that matter to me I see that the GOP has consistently been the party that tracked my own principles. As for Bush, he is the most conservative president in my lifetime and I am well into my sixties. Yes that includes Ronald Reagan because everything that Reagan so eloquently championed with rhetoric Bush has followed with actual results.
I thought it was Morris Dees from Purple Rain.
PHOOEY!! The President's personal approval is 61% - which means the base is still with him .. even if there are things they don't like.
If anybody is moving away from the President, it's the RINO's who are afraid the dems won't like them .. sick!
Don't believe ANY POLL YOU SEE FROM THE DEMS!
Okay you got me with that one. Now you'll excuse me while I fetch paper towels for the monitor.
Yeah. These people have interesting traveling campanions: The SPLC and foreigners who are under the dangerous delusion that they're going to take American territory away from Americans.
I'm not worried at all; I know real Republicans won't desert the party.
Whatever is being done about illegal entry into this country is not working. All I have to do to know how border policies are working is look out my kitchen window. I don't get my info from any newspaper, or any politician. I have a front row seat.
Until the border is secured anything done on this border is smoke and mirrors. Before the paperwork is done those apprehended are back in this country. I know this is hard to understand if you don't live here, but picture this- a prison with no locking doors and no perimeter fence. You can arrest all the people you want to, but it won't matter if you cannot secure them. That is how the border works. Those deported simply come right back, again and again.
Start reading the articles about crimes committed by illegals in this country. Pay careful attention to what it says- most of the time the article will say the person has already been deported more than once. Most illegals have been deported more than once- that's how it works. Catch and release sounds bad to everyone, but the truth is, deporting them is the same as catch and release without the border first being secured.
Real conservatives might.
"Everybody, have you heard..."
Why couldn't the right and left unite behind a party (such as libertarian) to rid ourselves of the corrupt two-party globalist/marxist cabal, while patching up little things like the open border which could have plenty of appeal to both the left and the right were the notion of 'invasion' and it's dire consequences clearly presented to all?
Sounds like the Jury didn't buy it.
It could be worse; "these people" could be demanding reparations.
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