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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.

Hell the entire bill could be thrown out

BUMP

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You should have quit while you were ahead. I warned you about those anti-Bush rants. This latest diatribe shows how deep rooted your hatred for the President is and has convinced me, beyond shadow of a doubt, that you never supported President Bush.

Bush is not a liberal and repeating such a lie, doesn't make it true. So far, Bush has shown himself to be a consumate conservative politician, in the mold of Ronald Reagan.

President Bush has promoted a conservative agenda. Here's a short list of his main accomplishments in a mere 14 months.

* has provided remarkable leadership in time of war
* secured passage through Congress of a $1.35 trillion tax cut
* has proposed the largest increases in military spending since Reagan
* opposed the Kyoto protocol
* disposed of the ABM Treaty
* eliminated taxpayer funding of overseas abortions
* has openly and strongly supported Taiwan
* made no deals for release of the EP-3 plane crew from Red China
* secured initial funding for a NMDS
* has promoted increases in off shore oil drilling
* has strongly advocated drilling in ANWR
* pushed for building more nuclear power plants
* campaigned to reduce our dependency on oil imports
* repealed many last minute Clinton EO`s
* campaigned for partial privatization of Social Security
* offered faith-based alternatives to traditional welfare
* stopped funding for further destruction of human embryo's
* has nominated conservative judges to the federal bench
* returned honor, dignity and trust to the Presidency

This isn't the record of a liberal, or a moderate. It is the record of a principled and pragmatic, mainstream conservative, who understands how to get the job done. Is it a perfect record, absolutely not. What the President wants, what I want and what the majority of conservative-republicans want, is political unity, not unanimity. With a slim majority in the House and Democrat control of the Senate, its impossible to win on every issue. Sometimes compromise and negotiation is the only viable alternative, for achieveing a partial victory on certain issues.

Bottom line, in poll after poll, American's continue to give the President high marks for his leadership, his honesty and for his strong integrity and personal character. His approval ratings have been in the 80% range. These high poll numbers, are mainly attributed to his successful handling of the war effort, but on individual issues, Bush has been very successful promoting his conservative policies, so far.

You can spin all you want, but your lies and distortions are obvious to anyone paying attention.