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 ...
It is not I who is doing the whiplash thing. They simply can't have it both ways.
You wrote: "Simcox has a paper trail a mile long. I find it odd that the most "holier than thou" poster on FR would support a man accused by his 13 year old daughter of attempted rape"
But you can, apparently.
You're the one bashing both Simcox and Hair.
"It is not I who is doing the whiplash thing. They simply can't have it both ways."
You and Tex quoting some socialist pervert has my head spinning, I've got to admit.
You can dream, you can wish, but you're wrong.
"What is your source for that?"
His source is Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
I'll be looking for the stats about how one particular group will vote during the next general election--the same demographic group that waffled to put Clinton into office during the '90s and has often complained about others voting Democrat.
Well, I'll just follow your lead; I guess ALL the stories over there are a pack of lies.
Vote for screwball RINOs or worthless DUmocrats in all aspects of Cali politics and somehow that's Bush's fault too? Wasting a vote on 3rd party "payback" scheme is a one of the DUmbest ideas that the DNC has come up with!
You people gotta do much better than that!
Really?
Have you ever taken it up with JR that he "wasn't using logic either on that subject?
"I guess that only applies under special circumstances."
It's funny, just last night, they were disparaging the credibility of "Mexican" reports, on the basis of being Mexican alone, and now they're quoting Morris Dees. It's turning into a house of mirrors.
FOTFLOL! Admittedly, I did think you were joking. Now, you have me LOL.
Nope. I didn't even know about JR or FR, in 1998.
Open Borders is a real problem for the GOP, but it is not the only problem. As the article points out there are lot's of other reasons for conservative to be unhappy with this administration so many in fact that many conservatives are throwing in the towel. The big government borrow and spend open borders bots that day in and day out say "screw conservatives who needs them anyway" bots should rejoice. They have finally gotten thier wish a GOP without conversatives "whinners" in it. Next they will get thier reward, president Hillary. President Hillary is a certainty if the GOP does not listen to conservatives and address thier issues.
I have never said anything about the stories "over there."
You're the only one talking about them. In fact, you're depending on them for some reason. And whenever you get dissent, you then, oddly, use the website's neutral depiction of Hair as some kind of challenge. It is very hard to fathom, which is why I asked you about it.
If you want to follow my lead, and I highly recommend that, use logic.
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