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Rush just said...
...he doesn't care if the democrats are elected and it would be better because then the conservatives would hold them to account unlike Bush and his liberal democrat agenda.

In the year 2000 I stated the same thing. For that I was soundly criticized.

As a conservative, I watched the Democrats on bended knee no matter what President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton did. The Democrats had some pretty sick agenda items, but if they truly thought they were right, I could at least understand that. I could not understand them underwriting his treasonous activity. I could not underwrite his lying under perjury and multitude of other, what seemed like crimes to me. They were giving the man a pass on what they knew to be wrong. More than anything, that is what blew me away.

Then the year 2000 rolled around. Candidate George Bush was making statements on the campaign trail that seriously concerned me. They sounded like ultra moderate, read that liberal agenda policies. This concerned me so much so that I come up with the following hypothesis.

I stated that if a, quote's conservative President (by perception), were popular and proposed liberal legislation, his followers might likely grant him a free pass much as the Democrats had their President for his indiscretions. We're not talking about the same level of indiscretions, so don't go there. But pushing a $400 medication bill for Medicare is not a conservative act, yet right on que his supporters have fallen in line to praise him for this.

Look Howlin, I'm not here to disrupt. I do think it's patently absurd to call someone a disrupter for posting Rush's comments in disagreement with Bush, but give Bush a pass on some of these issues.

The truth is, if Bill Clinton were proposing some of this 'stuff', you would join me in criticizing him for it. That you join me now doesn't surprise me, but it does sadden me.

You take care.

Your problem is that it's a requirement that anybody who actually likes Bush come on FR and declare everything they disagree with him about, day after day.

I have said a thousand times I don't agree with everything he does -- but I never expected him to do everything single thing I wanted him to do.

Evidently you all did; if you had paid attention, you would have known he wasn't an extreme right wing conservative like you guys wish he would be -- and now you'll all up in arms because he doesn't do what "your guy" would do IF he could get elected, which, of course IS your problem -- you have no candidate.

I will say again that George W. Bush is NOT just the president of the conservative wing of the GOP, he's the president of ALL the people now.

And I most certainly do remember your hoping that Bush would lose in 2000.