I think what scares most of us, if President Bush allows certain things to slide, or gives his approval of something (even by not taking any action at all), or does something that we as Conservatives do not agree with, a liberal can only make it 10, 15, 20 times worse. Many Conservatives don't care now, they foresee a Republican being in the WH for the next 5 years or so. Well, a liberal could win in 2008, 2012, 2016, and anything that President Bush has done, either directly, or by his inaction, that hurts the Conservative cause, can be magnified by a liberal. We had a liberal win after President Reagan and the first President Bush, it can and will happen again, it's the nature of a democracy.
Let me put it in a shorter, more tinfoil-ish way. The time to be fighting gun laws is not when the cops were granted the authority to confiscate them, and not when a city tells its residents the can't own them. Then it's too damn late, and many of us will end up on the news as "another conservative gun owner refused to surrender his guns and ended up in a shootout with the police".
There are several things that will determine if President Bush gets my vote. Granted, I'm in Texas, my vote means little here. But should he waiver or cave-in on any of them, he will not get my vote. I'm sure those who are hysterical about defending him will brand me a traitor or commie or whatever, but screw `em. They should be devoted to the cause and not the person that is supposed to be representing the cause.
Completely agreed. Though it seems we conservatives do differ at times on what causes to devote ourselves to.
As I said in a previous post, I think the arguments against reauthorizing the "assault weapons ban" are valid.
But if President Bush does reauthorize it, will that by itself cause me to vote against him or not vote at all? Likely not.