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The Christian right has a list of complaints with the Bush policy on homosexuality -- from White House and top-level GOP meetings with gay groups to Bush's signing a District of Columbia appropriations bill that funded benefits for unmarried domestic partners.

The White House said that global warming is indeed a problem and caused by humans. That was troubling.

On the issue of steel tariffs, suddenly Bush who was a free trader during his campaign is supporting steep steel tariffs, traditionally something Democrats might do. And he looks like a big spender in terms of agricultural subsidies. He signed a farm bill recently that really would put Bill Clinton to shame.

On the Middle East, after vowing to avoid the job of a peacemaker, again not wanting to look like Bill Clinton, he's dived into that situation and his administration is heavily involved in that. He is supporting "the Road Map" that Bill Clinton would not have even endorsed. Telling the Israelis to restrain themselves after women and children get blown up by terrorists.

Conservatives are also pointing to things like research on embryos. On the campaign trail, he said he wasn't going to support that and he has to some extent, and also the fact that he backed away from supporting school vouchers in his education bill. So a lot of things that are making a lot of true conservatives very uncomfortable.

And finally, campaign finance reform: On the campaign trail he said he thought campaign finance reform was unconstitutional and then he signed that into law.

Karl Rove, White House political director, told a meeting of the American Enterprise Institute in 2001 that 4 million fundamentalists and evangelicals didn't turn out to vote in 2000, almost costing Bush the presidency.

Religious conservatives also are upset with Bush's push to send $15 billion to Africa for AIDS prevention. He dismissed a bid by conservative Christians to restrict the initiative to fight AIDS to only those programs that reject abortion and promote abstinence.

Christian right voters played a pivotal role in electing Bush in his razor-thin victory over Al Gore. He cannot afford to lose them in 2004.

Thanks for keeping this in front of people reading here on FR.

I am a Bush supporter because my of a belief that he is a conservative who must reach compromise with forces that stand in the way of his vision for leading America.

President Bush has indeed taken actions that are not clear and in any event seem inconsistent with conservative principles.

President Bush did come out in defense of marriage yet as you pointed out he signed a DC appropriations bill that contained a provision for domesic partner benefits.

It is my hope that President Bush will have a 2nd term that will give him a mandate to accomplish many of the things that are in his heart.

On the issue of steel tariffs, suddenly Bush who was a free trader during his campaign is supporting steep steel tariffs, traditionally something Democrats might do. And he looks like a big spender in terms of agricultural subsidies. He signed a farm bill recently that really would put Bill Clinton to shame.

I agree with your points except this one. A steel manufacturing base is considered a military issue more than a commercial one.

All correct, Truth. And as I've been saying since early in his term, unless something drastic is going on during the time of the 2004 election, something that causes the nation to rally around him, he will be a one-termer. He has vacillated and caved, abandoned his base, turned broken-glass Republicans into why-bother Republicans, and this will cost him the election. I only hope and pray that the Democrat running against him isn't Hillary.

This is the truth, no matter how tightly the blinders are laced on so many freepers, whose first response is always to attack the poll instead of looking at the underlying facts of how he has conducted his presidency.

I hate it, truly, because while he has been a huge disappointment, I still hate to see the Democrats reclaim the White House. He and the Republicans had a golden opportunity to do something. They did nothing. The minority Democrats effectively control the Senate. How ludicrous is that?

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Christian right voters played a pivotal role in electing Bush in his razor-thin victory over Al Gore. He cannot afford to lose them in 2004.

I want to start a "Christian Conservatives For Dean" thread. I'm sure that Dean will address our needs much better than Bush ever did.

I'm sure that the Democrat Party and President Dean will thank and reward Christian Conservatives profusely for our open and vocal support.