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 ...
I will stay with the Republicans.
Libertarians want to legalize drugs and hold views that don't fly in the real world.
For those who like the constitution party, on their own web site, they are against the war on terror for starters.
"Nobody is bashing the Minutemen; just Simcox."
Uh huh.
The obvious reasons for going to the Southern Poverty Law Center for info to smear Simcox are the same as the SPLC's reasons for posting it in the first place----to undermine the Minutemen movement itself.
Well, here's a clue for you: don't want to talk to me?
Thanks, she has some Sophia Loren going on there.
"If the organization/cause is right, which I'm not completely convinced it is, then it can stand losing one guy."
There's irony in that statement, somewhere.
Let's have some names.
And before you demure, you know how this works on FR: you made the claim.
Now back it up.
Of course. Direct and to the point.
Well, she certainly has a place to rest those lips, doesn't she?
No irony, simply two thoughts.
A)If these guys are right, then the loss of one guy won't matter.
B)I'm not convinced they are right.
Congratulations. Aside from your snarky tagline, you forgot to bash George Allen on this thread.
Why don't you ask your friends to stop using Morris Dees and Mexican racists as sources to attack conservatives.
Denounce it, Howlin.
And now I'll GLADLY grant your wish and stop posting to you.
Enjoy your miserableness.
You mean sort of like calling Bush a traitor and calling for his impeachment?
I find it odd that YOU won't denounce him.
Enjoy your miserableness.
I call that pure T projection.
Oh, they don't bother me.
Normally, info from the Southern Poverty Law Center would be taken with a hefty grain of salt, yet when their smear against Simcox was posted here, you all took it as gospel truth without questioning it. You took to it like fish to water. Obviously, you wanted to believe that the leader of the Minutemen movement was a rotten person and were willing to believe any slander from any source (if you're now getting your facts from SPLC, there is no source that you wouldn't have believed, so long as they were somehow sticking it to the Minutemen).
Didn't someone suggest that here yesterday in one of the threads. I thought they were joking but maybe they weren't.
Uh, excuse me...Murrah ring a bell? I live in the crossroads where illegals are busted on our highways all the time, and not that far from the border - maybe a day's drive.
When states refuse to apprehend or incarcerate illegals or allow them safe haven (issuing license, providing healthcare, welfare, and education) is compounding the problem. We know where illegals reside, but LE have refused to do anything about it. If your cops don't do anything about criminals, then they are enabling them, regardless of what they are "told".
Don't blame me because your police have a problem with enforcemnt. We do have natural disasters and aren't bailed out by the feds everytime a strong wind blows. But pointing the finger at the Fed...that'll solve it! I think it was Texas that had the commercials "It's a whole other country".
No kidding?
So all that nice stuff they have on there about Connie Hair is a pack of lies?
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