Are you too from DU trying to lure our angry ranters to your team?
No: here’s my voting record since turning 18:
1984: Reagan; 1988: Bush; 1992: Bush; 1996: Dole; 2000: Bush; 2004: Bush.
Volunteer Work:
1990: Santorum (House); 1992: Santorum (House); 1994: Santorum (Senate); 2004: Toomey (Senate Primary vs. Specter); plus my local House member as well as various other local candidates at various times.
It’s just that this bill negates for me, and apparently most of the rest of the base, all of the good work Bush has done in keeping al-Quaeda in check and keeping the U.S. safe. There’s no point in playing a great offense if you’re going to simultaneously open the back door and wave in the entire world.
Bush is crushing the R’s for at least a generation with the push for this bill. If you thought 2006 was a bad showing, wait until 2008. If Bush succeeds, the base will be so angry/demoralized, NO ONE will show up to volunteer and/or vote in 2008. The R House and Senate members know this - Bush will be gone in 19 months, but the rest of the team has to live to fight another day.
If Bush gets this bill; in 2008, Hillary is President, we lose 50 members in the House and 8 in the Senate. A total bloodbath that I do not want to have to live through...not to mention overcrowding our country to over 400 miliion + people in maybe just 10 years.
It doesn’t make me happy, I donated to Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns. I feel ripped off. If Bush needs to go now to prevent the nightmare scenario above, so be it.
Reagan80