Posted on 05/13/2006 5:56:28 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
Who said the following?
No matter what Bush says, I don't trust him!!! He has caused untold turmoil in our nation. The man is a total phony!!!! The longer he stays in OUR White House the more uneasy I become. He has fully exposed himself as a total fraud!
A) Howard Dean
B) Hillary Clinton
C) Jack Sherratt, a California Republican who voted for GW Bush twice.
Answer: Mr. Sherratt, who is a regular reader of my column on Newsmax.com, the most visited conservative news site. His reaction to President Bush is not unique.
Another reader, Charley, wrote, I voted George Bush because I was under the impression that he was a man of high principle and moral values. But based on the decisions he has made since he was elected I see I made a HUGE mistake in judgment. He has sold out to big business on so many issues it makes me ILL.
Jack and Charley - and millions of conservatives like them - are the heart of the conservative Republican movement which has always thrived when it had a common ‘enemy.’ For 40 years it was Soviet Communism and Big Government. By the late 1990's it was Bill Clinton’s smutty behavior and Hollywood’s poisonous culture.
In 2000 George W. Bush was able to harness this passion and fury on the Right to defeat Al Gore. And, of course, 9/11 allowed Mr. Bush to harness the entire nation’s fear and pain to attack Afghanistan and Iraq.
From 1999 on I wrote column after column - from a conservative perspective - questioning the truthfulness and competence of George W. Bush. And I was excoriated by fellow Republicans and conservatives for this. Up until 6 months ago, the emails defending Bush - and attacking me for being a RINO (Republican in Name Only)- were steady and vitriolic. But things are changing. There is an ongoing tectonic shift inside the Republican and conservative movement that is reflected in email after email - all from people who once proudly defended President Bush.
Until now, the base itself - the voters who nominated and elected him - has held. But that base is now beginning to defect. Polls show that Bush’s support among Republicans has recently dropped from 90% to 74%. And only 20% of GOP voters now “strongly” support Mr. Bush as opposed to 34% a year ago, according to the latest ABC/Washington Post poll.
President Bush - instead of commanding the passion and fury of the conservative movement to his political benefit has allowed himself to become its target.
On issue after issue, Mr. Bush has betrayed his own supporters:
On federal spending: From Jeff in Ohio: Leading up to the 2000 election. I was republican conservative Christian sure W was the man. Send over a huge plate of crow. I cannot imagine a worse disaster. I will never vote Repub again. No excuse for uncontrolled increase in spending, and total disregard for civil liberties along with a thousand other reasons.
Or foreign policy: Dave from San Diego: I am so embarrassed that I voted for this fraud twice. What is even worse is our foreign policy fiasco being orchestrated by Darth Cheney and Dr. Paranoiac. Many of my fellow Republican friends are seeing this and feel like they cannot believe anything coming out of this administration.
On the Dubai Ports deal: Mike from Illinois: W's administration is a mess. He has abandoned his supporters. I feel as if it were a sham. Ports, borders, jobs flying out of here - it's frustrating.
On immigration: Alex from NYC: I've personally spoken with Republicans who are so angry over Bush's amnesty bill that they are thinking about leaving the GOP.
This new-found despair and disgust on the Right indicates turmoil this November - and maybe even a place for an anti-establishment Independent Third Candidate in 2008:
Mitchell from Ohio: I am a 30+ year voting Republican. I am so mad at him I can't see straight. He just doesn't get it. I predict big losses for Republicans in the 2006 elections and President Bush should look in the mirror when it happens.
From Rosanne in Pittsburgh: I will tell you that the American people are longing for a man or woman who stands for something, and not become lapdogs for their political party or a tool for the religious groups in this country that want to make religion the national policy for the nation.
George W. Bush, who tried to act and look like the ‘son of Reagan’ in order to command the conservative base, has proven himself indeed to be the son of George H.W. Bush - the last Republican President to betray his base.
And the result is that the passion and fury of the Republican Right are now aimed directly at him.
John LeBoutillier never liked GWB. Yawn...
BIG TIME.
Thank God Clinton didn't have a son!!
Why does a lot of this sound like the Democrat talking points from people who are supposed to be Republicans.
I can understand people being mad about immigration. But some of this other stuff reeks of the Dems.
I'm sorry but when people start implying that Bush is trying to turn this country into a theocracy, that just says "left-wing nut job."
Who are they gonna vote for then? Dems? It will be more of the same.
This comment contains the logical fallacy:
"instead of commanding the passion and fury of the conservative movement to his political benefit has allowed himself to become its target."
The problem is that you have included all the "kooks and nutters" who voted for Bush...and there most assuredly are some...yet they are niether representative of the "conservative movement " or any other legitimate political faction other than the "fringe lunacy".
This faction finds voice in all types of forums from public squares and parks to internet chat rooms like this "open air asylum". Sane adults recognize their easy-to-spot erratic behavior on sight and reject their claims to legitamacy out of hand.
Thus, your carefully framed observations that these kooks represent "the comservative movement" is pure crap.
They left out, "D) All of the above"
On the Left, the fringe lunatics are in charge.
On the Right, the fringe lunatics are loud, obnoxious, and have more in common with Uncle Virgil, who you keep locked in the basement when company is over because of his lack of control over his bodily functions, and his potty mouth.
Actually, our problem is the opposite of the Left's... We don't have as many lunatics as they do, so our Party is far more moderate and tolerant of liberalism than it should be.
Dyed and dipped Republican here who feels the same way. Feel like a chump. Where is his compassionate conservativism for the people who elected him? We're paying the bills but got nothing as far as I can see.
Still killing the unborn.
Still printing and spending money like a drunken sailor.
Still have wide open border--44,000 OTM turned loose at the border.
Still taking our property by fraudulent eminent domain.
Still taxed at the actual rate of @ 54 percent.
Still no oil from ANWR.
Still being shafted at the pump.
Still being done in by environmental regulation.
Used to have one out of ten who were gov. employees, now have one out of seven.
Except for two SCOTUS members I can see no progress, Oh wait. We hven't heard from them. May never.
"Darth Cheney?"
Get real. This article is a fraud.
That's the anger aint it? Since the rats are not a viable alternative, we are stuck with RAT-lite in the WH.
2. I still support the President, because he has accomplished a lot despite unending attacks by the Rats, the press, and a fair number of clueless people in his own party.
3. I see that you are a recent registrant, and since I have no record of your support of the President on this forum, your claim to have been a supporter has nothing to back it up except your word, of which I have no way of knowing whether it is good or not.
Why not speak for yourself? How is the President out of touch with you?
But he did, Highwayman, he did.
Clinton is the father of his home state of Arkancide.
[President Bush - instead of commanding the passion and fury of the conservative movement to his political benefit has allowed himself to become its target.]
He has made the mistake that so many neo cons do by abandoning the right wing base votes and pursuing the left wing moderates who will vote democrat as usual. There is a need in America for a conservative party.
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