Posted on 05/16/2006 10:23:46 AM PDT by AntiGuv
I’ll give you 10 pesos to a tortilla that President Bush and the Senate proponents of “comprehensive” immigration reform have never had to “press 1 for English” when they phone their bank or their cell phone carrier. The bad news for the Republican Party is that the Republican base does, day after day.
The same conservatives who sacrificed time, energy, and money to push the Republicans into the majority in both houses of Congress and to the presidency have been betrayed. We’ve suspected it for a long time. And now we know it.
If my circle of acquaintance is any indication, the majority party has lost its foundation. Every one of my Republican-voting friends, from those who have a casual affinity to those who are deeply immersed in conservative circles, are so thoroughly dismayed with our party’s performance that they will sit the next election cycle out.
Imagine that: not the “swing” voter; nor the elusive “independent”; but the deeply conservative base voter who supported the party financially, at the ballot box, and in spirit during its lean years will be watching from the sidelines this fall. In disgust.
Supporters, who have swallowed bloated budgets, steel tariffs, prescription drug benefits, Sen. Teddy Kennedy’s education reform bill, and campaign finance “reform,” will stomach no more.
It is nearly five years after an attack on our soil which killed thousands of our fellow citizens. And our border is not secure.
The President, our President, vows to try a little harder to enforce the law if, and only if, we swallow the naturalization of millions of illegal immigrants. Did you get that? The leader of the executive branch, charged with enforcing the law of the land, will only do so if Congress and the people agree to ignore his dereliction of duty during his tenure to date.
To add insult to injury, while regurgitating his proposal’s Byzantine details, the man charged with protecting and defending the Constitution managed to insult and malign those opposed to his amnesty proposal, and to mischaracterize conservative opposition to the “comprehensive” approach. To ask that one’s government makes an honest effort to enforce the laws on the books does not make one a racist. And to demand that our immigration laws discriminate between honest hard-working economic immigrants and drug-running gang members is not cold-hearted.
There are many aspects of the President’s plan to criticize. But it makes no sense to expend effort dissecting a proposal made in bad faith. From some obscure sense of misguided compassion, misdirected Christian mercy, or just plain old-fashioned elitism President Bush has decided that he has a greater loyalty to citizens of Mexico than to those of his own country. We owe him, and his party, none of our own.
I, for one, am finished voting for or with the Bush family or any member of it. They would be nothing in politics but for Ronald Reagan having rescued George, Sr. from a well-deserved political oblivion in 1980 and this is the thanks they give. Let them rely on the alumni of the Harvard Hasty Pudding Club and Yale's Skull and Bones ("the right people") next time they run in an election; see how far they get at the polls.
This about sums it up for me...
So, if it were Jeb Bush versus Gore, Kerry or other lib, you would either vote for the libs, or not vote?
Quit acting like petulant children! Screaming mindless slogans may make the Perpetual Whiners feel good, it does NOTHING to solve the problem.
NOTHING in life is perfect. Quit acting like spoiled children and learn to live with it.
Who is having the tantrum here, it sure doesnt look like the posters before you.
Why should we conservatives sit back and take it. Your position of "they win if we dont vote the party line" is a bankrupt one at best. I dont sell out my views for the sake of a Republican majority. Im a conservative first and Republican second.
Press 2 to be deported.
Very good article. Agree 100%
Here who is voted for the strict Border Enforcement bill in the US Senate. Notice which party the vast majority belong too? Squealing at your own side may make "Conservatives" feel good, it does NOT get the Conservative ball moved down the feild.
Grouped By Vote Position YEAs ---40
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Voted against Strict Border Enformcement.
NAYs ---55
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Craig (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Not Voting - 5
Cochran (R-MS)
Gregg (R-NH)
Lott (R-MS)
McCain (R-AZ)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Let's see. Plan B. Hold Bush's feet to fire...
That's the plan I favor. There are too many conservatives throwing in the towel and saying all is lost. What needs to happen is for GWB and the Senate RINOs to reap the whirlwind until they abandon their amnesty-first position and embrace the House plan to secure the borders.
PS. One irony in all this is that I would actually think the House plan was too weak, were it not light years better than the Senate/Bush proposals.
"Bienvenidos. Prensa dos para Inglés."
Then there are his (and Rumsfeld's) half-measures scattered about the middle East.
In that mix, our people have done well, despite left-wing criticism, and despite Bush's lapses and Rumsfeld's fumbling with material support and failure to send enough troops, in addition to failing to raise enough, which has left many exhausted.
Here in our country, Bush has otherwise not done much at all, nor provided much in the way of conservative - and - Republican proposals of sustinance.
Again, we are being asked to vote against the Democrats, while there is not much among the Republican Party and its watered-down portions of unstable platforms, for which to vote.
That is, principles mean little to RINO's.
Yet, the option of failing to vote for the Republican candidates, in general, is not going to do any good for our country.
Given on this forum, the Bush-bots' behavior and vitriol are disgusting conduct, and it is a bit of a struggle to find any silver lining in their knee-jerk reactions against our defending the foundations of our liberty, about which, the defense of these foundations, they remain clueless ... we still, in my humble opinion, should vote Republican this November.
The corruption and willingness to sell out America, whether that slimey platform be that of left-wing-nuts or their appeaser-posing-RINO's, may be distasteful, but we have a job to do, and that is defend the foundations of our free democratic-republic.
The Bush-bots have nothing to offer except their own personal self-interests (some of which are apparently providing jobs to illegal aliens), but still, we must think about what we are fighting for and vote for whatever portions of conservativism we can still hold onto inside the Beltway.
I am trying to keep my blood pressure in order, so as to support my friends down near the border, whose land is threatened by Bush's thoughtless indifference toward our neighbors thereabouts.
As much as Bush and the Bush-bots cannot get through the day without squiggling around in their wiggle rooms, we are stuck with them, for now.
I believe that we should still vote Republican, but we should emphasize that our contributions will only go to conservative causes and candidates, hand delivered, if possible (and within the statutory guidelines for contributions).
Judges, Judges, Judges. President Bush has done more for the Conservative Movement then all the Talking Head Squealers and Feeper Perpetual Whiners ever will.
No one ever gets 100% of what they want. quot;Conservatives" better get a grip on political reality. Better 60% of what they value then 100% of what they loath. Right now the bulk of the "Real Conservatives" are acting like petulant children, not adults. "Whaaaa, you Republicans are not doing ONLY what WE want, Whaaa." Too bad. Nothing in life is perfect, better grown up and deal with it.
Anyone who doesn't understand just how much Liberalism has been forced on us by the Leftist in the Judiciary for the last 35 years is simply NOT thinking. Prop 187, which would of done much to prevent our current Illegals mess, was simply overturned by the will of a Leftist Judge. Until you reign in the Imperial Judiciary, None of the 100%er fantasy plans are going to ever be law.
In life you take the good with the bad. Only in fantasy do you get 100% of what you want. Time for the "Real Conservatives" to wake up.
When one does not have a real arguement -he thows out names.
Try again MNJohnnie. We would like 100% but we have not gotten 1%. Bush is a tyrant that does not follow the supports he had that got him into office, not even 1%. We are not throwing tantrum, nor are we spoiled petulant children. Enough is enough, there is only so much we can stands. Stop being a Bushbot.
No thanks; i voted for Perot in 1992 and would do so again. I don't regret the ensuing defeat of Bush 41 in the slightest; he was a terrible president and things actually went better with divided government, as much as I personally disliked Clinton, he could not be the profligate spender this guy is. Like father, like son.
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