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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.

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

Sure, Bush is not a liberal. Rather he is a consumate bipartisan centrist and by definition does not hold fast to any particular princples liberal or conservatives, but rather has a centrist mix of both. What you fail to understand is that Bush is not a conservative and never has been. Sure I supported him because I wanted him to be a good President but I never was under any delusion that he was a conservative. The truth is that I started with very low expectations for his Presidency. I thought he would be only somewhat better than Gore. Then, I fell prey to the anyone-but Clinton syndrome. Certainly, after Clinton he seemed like a breath of fresh air and during his first few months he performed better than I expected.

However, Bush's action in signing the Democrat Incumbent Re-Election Act is so destructive of the conservative cause and so eviscerating for the Republican Party as to constitute an Armageddon for us (Republicans) again something you fail to understand. This is not merely amnestying two million illegal aliens. Its not just supporting federal funding for harvesting of stem-cells from aborted babies. Its not just supporting Clinton's Amerikorps program. Its not merely appeasing Communist China with $100 billion a year in US trade surplus money to enable it to build itself into the best superpower enemy money can buy and providing them with supercomputers 50-100 times more powerful than those sold under Bill Clinton during the Chinagate scandal. Its not just passing Ted Kennedy's bill which federalizes the public education system. Conservatives have fought against all these Bush initiatives for years if not decades. This is nothing short of Armageddon for the Republican Party!!! Why some Bush backers fail to understand this and try to excuse and justify this away when it is so much worse than anything else Bush has done (other than implementing the unilateral disarmament of 75% of our remaining strategic nuclear deterrent) is completely beyond me.

As Buchanan said in his book, Death of the West, "this is how it all ends." It is not an end I, a lifelong member of the Republican Party, would have chosen. When this bill is implemented, the Republican Party will be finished for all time as a majority party. If you were a committed Republican and not merely a Bush backer, this fact would concern you a bit more. For me, having a Republican majority in Congress for the first time in sixty years has been a very welcome and cherished historical moment which I have worked to prolong. Bush has now destroyed my hopes of so doing.