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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No, reparations was an Alan Keyes attempt to garner votes when he ran for US senate in Illinois.
How "conservative" was that?
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).
is drivel.
Normally, year old info from a Mexican website would be taken with a grain of salt....
Good attitude. :)
I throw up my hands. Who is Connie Hair?
Well, I have had a lot of practice...........LOL.
In case you haven't noticed...George or Jeb aren't running! The only "bloodline" happening is Hellary, who's got a snowballs chance in hades.
The voters of California certainly aren't represented by your current congress critters. Bela Pelosi and Diane "hapless toad" Feinstain need a few ethics/corruption probes to send them into early retirement as well!
She's an ex-Freeper, Clinton's A Liar.
"So all that nice stuff they have on there about Connie Hair is a pack of lies?"
She's a FReeper, you know. Maybe she'll drop in and tell you what she thinks. Maybe one of the guys who helped found the Minutemen would find your change of heart intriguing as well. I know his SN, so ... Ping.
I doubt that; she's pretty much personna no grata around here.
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Like you I don't like child molesters. The only thing lower is the belly of a rattlesnake in a wagon wheel rut in Death Valley.
However, this is the second time you've accused the man of that crime. If he hasn't been convicted then all you're doing is slandering him for no apparent reason.
Innocent until proven guilty is being turned on its head and you just go walking on by...
LOL..(Just lurking..watching the Bush bashing fest. That was a funny one tho so I had to break lurk mode. Bush made me do it don't you know).
I wouldn't count on that.
If she does, she'll be banned again for being a retread.
Tonight that does appear to be so.
This to shall pass. :) (Took that from a prune commercial)
Kind of sums up this whole media created Minuteman Bush-bash, doesn't it?
yes, it will still be red - but the red votes Wont count in 08 if the rats get their plan through to eliminate the electoral college!
In the real world, the federal government wouldn't exercise anywhere near the power over your life as it does today.
In the real world, I could dump a bag of weed on your shoe and you could say "I chose not to indulge".
In the real world, the states' governors would have already called-up their militias to end the illegal invasion taking place on our southern border.
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