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May be Bush has betrayed you, but he hasn't betrayed the Republican Party, or the Constitution. You may find some Freepers who will agree with you, but most conservative-republicans don't see it your way. Home for the modern conservative movement, remains the Republican Party and not the Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party, or the Reform Party candidate. And besides, Alan Keyes will never win a general election. Keyes would do far worse then Barry Goldwater did in 1964! If you've already given up on Bush, after a mere 14 months in office, I doubt you actually supported his candidacy at all. Fair and reasonable minded conservatives, like myself, are asking for a united front in support of President Bush and his agenda, we do not ask for unanimity on every issue. It serves no good purpose to draw a line in the sand on every issue. Such rigid thinking is counter productive and is nothing more then reactionary absolutism.

Actually, I was one of Bush's most outspoken cheerleaders during the election fiasco with Algore's attempts to usurp the Presidency. I protested in front of the Supreme Court on decision day when the militant Commie-lib union thugs numbered over three times larger than the Bush crowd. I wanted so badly to like Bush and support him, but I have become fed up with his betrayal of conservatives to which he hinted to during the campaign in which he continually took his conservative supporters for granted. I am lifelong diehard Republican activist and have no plans to leave the party now or ever for that matter. I believe retaking control of the GOP from its current Liberal Republican Establishment leadership which Bush, with this latest betrayal, has come to represent is the best hope for conservatives to effect policy in this country and return America to being a Godly nation.

Its high time you and other so-called "conservatives" realize that Bush's agenda is anything but a conservative one, but rather is not appreciably better than Clinton's big government agenda with which it is 80% identical. It is due to your refusal and the refusal of other willfully blind Bush backers to oppose Bush and draw a line in the sand on any issue that we have lost so big on this one issue which will effect the course of the country so massively and permanently to the left. I really believe that you and people who think like you would sooner follow Bush over a cliff than take a stand for preserving the Republican Party as a viable party and our God-given Constitution which alone makes us free.

I wanted so badly to like Bush and support him...

Hmmm.

Like I told you, Bush hasn't betrayed his republican and conservative supporters, nor has he taken them for granted either. While several of Bush's recent forays into political gamesmanship, have upset and confused some in his conservative base, I believe the vast majority of his supporters have had a measured response. Some, like yourself, have over reacted. I think very few conservatives were expecting Bush to initiate across the board conservative policies, with total disregard towards the loyal opposition. To think otherwise, is being naive in my book.

Ronald Reagan understood, that as President, he would never get his full conservative agenda passed through the Congress, 100% intact. This is something that President Bush also understands, but you, obviously do not understand. Compromise and negotiation are a major part of any president's game plan. This is especially true, when you consider, that at best, only 1/3rd of the American electorate, identifies themselves as politically conservative.

This charge that Bush is a liberal republican, is utterly ridiculous and without merit .

So you can exoriate those republicans and conseravtives who disagree with you, all you want, if that makes you feel better. However, the more you attack Bush and his supporters, for not agreeing with you, the more you look weak and petty.