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Since joing FR, late ( very , the 28th , to be exact ) in April of THIS year, perhaps you need to go looking for a different forum to join, or to stay here , read until your eyes pop out of your head and you finally manage to learn something about politics.

If you aren't really just a troll/disruptor, then you really need to learn what politics is and what it is not. Your post pegs you as an all or nothing kinda person, who would rather have NOTHING , than accept a part of what you wish a president to do.

Sooo, you are you going to vote for, in '04...Dean, Gephart,Kerry ? LOL

Perhaps you didn't read his post. I, too, want LESS Federal government, not more. I expect those I vote for to move the ball in our direction. I don't expect them to be perfect or get the job done overnight, but I expect them at least to make a start on restoring Constitutional government. Enacting a new prescription drug plan, signing on to massive subsidies for education, airlines, and farmers, supporting restrictions on campaign speech, enacting laws like the Patriot Act don't ven begin to move the ball in our direction. They move the ball in the other direction. Other than a penny-ante tax cut (which I support, because any tax cut is better than no tax cut), what has this Administration done for us? They've been very good on the war, but otherwise the record is not good at all. Remember appeasing China after they shot down our plane? And the Administration refuses to do anything about illegal immigration.

I could go on and on, but this short list provides several good examples.

Learn to think for yourself and stop insulting those of us who possess the capability of doing so. Just because I don't swallow every Bush policy hook, line, & sinker (like you, apparently, from the wording of your post) doesn't make me any less eligible to post or read on this site than you.

I noted that my point of Bush running on the platform of less gov't, yet creating more, was not addressed or denied by you. So I guess that you want more Fed. Gov't in your lives. Fine, but that's not been a platform of the GOP for awhile now. Why do you calmly accept this? Your grasp of politics seems tenuous at best.

And I'm no troll or disruptor, but a member of an apparently-shrinking base: Moderate Republicans who wish their politicians would focus on fiscal and foreign policy (the latter Mr. Pres. has excelled at, IMO) and stay out of religion and other personal decisions that are unimportant to this country.