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I have supported this President since the election of 2000. The funny thing is, I voted for Gore! I was a liberal then,. but Gore’s not conceding angered me to no end. I decided to give Bush the benefit of the doubt. My anger at my party (Dems) increased during the Inaugural, when they protested. After 9/11, I decided to give Bush my support, as I felt he was doing a great job, under terrible circumstances.

I voted for him in 2004, and wore buttons and t-shirts daily. I was shocked by the visceral hatred of the left and supported Bush even more, even when increasingly he let me down. I now just wish he could try talking TO us and not AT us. I guess I am a Bush Democrat, and have gotten more and more conservative as the Republicans have gotten more and more liberal. It really is bizarro world. Now, I cringe when he discusses immigration. I am sick of Spanish everywhere, and criminals marching by the thousands demanding things I don’t even have (amnesty for crime). It would be better if he stopped talking about immigration. He just upsets the base more with his arrogant smears.

..PghBaldy, I think a lot of those who used to be called "Reagan Democrats" have felt abandoned by their party.

Believe me there are many in the other party who feel like they have been left holding an empty bag.

Duncan Hunter, in several speeches, expresses his desire to reach out to that faction of Democrats, with their concerns about good American jobs being lost to outsourcing overseas--give Mr. Hunter a look...

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WOW! Thats Full Circle,LOL!

I voted for him in 2004, and wore buttons and t-shirts daily. I was shocked by the visceral hatred of the left and supported Bush even more, even when increasingly he let me down. I now just wish he could try talking TO us and not AT us. I guess I am a Bush Democrat, and have gotten more and more conservative as the Republicans have gotten more and more liberal. It really is bizarro world. Now, I cringe when he discusses immigration. I am sick of Spanish everywhere, and criminals marching by the thousands demanding things I don’t even have (amnesty for crime). It would be better if he stopped talking about immigration. He just upsets the base more with his arrogant smears.

I'm the same way myself. We are even seeing some of it here in Pittsburgh, IIRC, you're from Pittsburgh too. Mom the other day had to make a call at work to a customer and she got Spanish on the answering machine. She didn't understand it at all but she did leave the message. Boy, she was livid! I know myself, I consider myself a social conservative, not a fiscal one, so actually I'm a split, I guess in other times I'd be a right wing populist to an FDR Democrat but I think no matter what, it seems like both parties really don't listen at all. The Republicans want the cheap labor and the Democrats want the dependent underclass for their votes.

President Bush on the war, I'd give him a B. There are things I would have done differently and with more force but overall, it has been handled OK although recently, we are starting to lose focus. Domestically, I'd give him a C and Immigration gets an F.

I feel I have no real place to go, certainly not the Democrats, they are too "McGovernized" with the socially liberal and anti-war moonbats and the Republicans are really not for me but for the rich (altohugh the Dems have their rich base too, we need to be fair) in general.