Their Own Worst Enemies - A bad midterm outlook for the GOP

National Review ^ | May 29, 2002 | Deroy Murdock

[Zack Nguyen]

While President Bush is doing very well with a 70%+ approval rating, he has done little to pass this approval rating on to his party. It may not even be possible to do so.

Bush's popularity is based almost entirely on his excellent war leadership. Imagine if their were no war - would conservatives have accepted Bush's spending spree, signing of CFR, etc. and maintain Bush's high approval ratings of their were no war? Should his excellent leadership end for any reason, Bush's administration could suffer politically.

[gunshy]

Bush is far and away the best democrat president of the last hundred years.

[Zack Nguyen]

bump

[Geezerette]

Even a better democrat than FDR and LBJ?

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[snag_matic]

I hope that we are finished with the Bush family. Please don't think of nominating Jeb in 2008.

[KC_Conspirator]

I have to agree with the author. There are few in the GOP who really excite me. And hell, the fact is that the GOP strategists are telling everyone to run as democrats even though the number one issue by far is The War on Terror.

[Redleg Duke]

Oh,yeah! Let's all just give up, hunker down in our self-righteous indignation, refuse to vote out the DemocRATS and pray for the moral uprising that leads to the revolution that destroys this country to make it safe for the Libertarians to take over and establish their dictatorship of anarchy.

Or, we can pull our heads out of our butts and see that GW is playing the best game possible with the hand dealt to him by indifferent voters and traitorous people such as "Jumpin' Jim" Jeffords. We need to rise up and throw out the DemcRAT Bastards this Fall and give GW the Republican-controlled House and Senate he needs to get moving. As long as the RATs control the Senate, they will continue to obstruct progress...but then, the brigadeers and brownies don't want progress. They want dissatisfaction and devisiveness. They aren't any better than the liberals.

[RedWing9]

Why should Republicans bother to vote GOP next November 5? Inexplicably, President Bush and congressional Republicans are giving their party base myriad reasons to go fishing on Election Day.

Republicans and Democrats have proven to be pigs in a bipartisan pen on pork-barrel spending. While some Republicans still treat taxpayers' dollars with reverence, too many more stand gleefully at the trough, snout-by-snout, with their Democratic colleagues.

I disagree, we should instead try to vote for persons who "still treat taxpayers' dollars with reverence". By not voting we are enabling those to stay in office which this writer decries.

[alpowolf]

If they can't affirmatively support or even defend their agenda when the President is popular, when can they?

Whatever happened to the "smaller government" conservatives?

[linn37]

you like the idea of more democrats running the show in the fall,you go ahead and go fishing.Just don't whine when Charlie Rangel and Gephardt have you by the balls cause I don't want to hear it.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Help here?

[Darth Sidious]

We need to rise up and throw out the DemcRAT Bastards this Fall and give GW the Republican-controlled House and Senate he needs to get moving.

You haven't described at all why GW having a Republican-controlled House and Senate would be a good thing.

Some of us think higher than trading one group of thieves, for another.

[alpowolf]

Re your implication that Libertarians are anarchists: so sorry, that's not correct. Not that it matters.

So let's say the GOP gets the Senate back. What will the excuse be then? "Tactics, comrades, tactics!"

[AmusedBystander]

Just remember, Ross Perot begat Bill Clinton...

...and Hillary and Chelsea and Carville and...

[Geezerette]

Luckily for me, I have a very conservative Rep. (John Shadegg) representing my district, and one of two Senators (Jon Kyl) is a conservative and one (McCain) is a ... a ... (fill in the blank, but try to keep it fit for family viewing!)

So, I intend to run, not walk, to vote for the Right ones!

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[eureka!]

What you said. Sheesh...

[CPT Clay]

George P. Bush 2016

[RightResponse]

When you're Right, you're Right... You are right on the money. Others need to play politics with the Rats, and not be so bullheaded as to sabotage any gains we make.. The Dems are much more patient and incremental. We witnessed how a buffoon like Clinton stopped Republican issues cold by allowing passage of bills that would have been a deal breaker for his second term. Bush can't let the media and the Dems succeed in taking away the approval he now has (and 41 had).

[N. Theknow]

Never underestimate the stupidity of the GOP.

Two Democratic Presidents in the past 30 years (and among the WORST Presidents ever).

WHY?

Nixon Pardon and "No new taxes" pledge broken.

I say again, "Never underestimate the stupidity of the GOP."