You can count me among them. I voted for Bush twice. But, his big spending on the Farm, Education and other bills have completely turned me off. His total lack of leadership on the illegal issue TOTALLY turned me off. He failed to do his Constitutional duty, he violated his Oath of Office to Defend the Republic against all enemies when he fought to grant illegals amnesty and make them legal. He violated his oath of office in failing to do due diligence with his administration. I would not vote for him again. I would probably vote for the Constitutional Party or something. I would not vote for a RINO again. I made that mistake twice. Shame on me. The only thing I support Bush on is the war on terror and I have my problems with some of his actions in regards to this. My total support is behind my brothers and sisters on the front lines. That is all I am worried about now. That they are going to pay a higher price in blood because of the crap the socialist democrats will pull. WE can thank Mr. Bush for that. He and his screwed up party.
Bush a RINO? Remember the Republican being a majority is in name in only. We had a Senate that was split down the middle with the Democrats. We didn't have a great majority in the House either. Nothing got done because the Democrats got in the way. I wanted Social Security Reform but the Democrats did not like the idea. It's not Bush's fault if Democrats prevent laws to protect our Borders or a full scale war in Iraq. Before Bush got into office the military was downsized significantly by the Clinton Administration.
Bush Administration had to deal with the military that was given to him.
Why didn't the Republicans in the House and Senate have the balls to counterattack the Democrats? The Republicans did a wonderful job not speaking up during the recent Senate Intelligence Report.
Republicans are in a predictment.
My Congressman Mark Kirk from Illinois must be a RINO too. We have our Naval Base here in Great Lakes, Illinois. He has to keep all the retirees happy, the civilian contractors who are working on the base happy and people who live on welfare happy. Lake County used to be a Red but its quickly turning Blue. All our Republicans are being voted out except for Kirk. His democrat opponent nearly won but missed it by 1%. Pretty soon Kirk will lose his congressional seat to a Democrat. My husband hates Kirk because he's a RINO but I only look at his situation trying to please everyone so you can get your job done...like supporting Bush on WOT.
Did Bush have any successes?
Bush changed the bankruptcy laws...that's not good enough for you conservatives? He was able to get that bill passed with bi-partisan approval.
http://www.newstarget.com/010162.html
He also signed into law Healthy Forest Restoration Act in 2003 with bi-partisan approval. We can clear cut forest for safety reason now and we don't have to listen to silly environmentalist who prefer having our forest as tinder boxes.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031203-4.html
"The only thing I support Bush on is the war on terror and I have my problems with some of his actions in regards to this."
It's because he has the silly Democrats and mainstream media nipping at his heels about Gitmo and trying to bring about another My Lai Massacre on front page news. We can't be aggressive against the terrorist because Democrats won't allow it.
If everyone was on board; this conflict would been wrapped up quickly but the Democrats are too blame. They prolonged our intervention in Iraq by saying the US was wrong to go in from the get go. They have embolden the Saddamites and Jihadist.
All the recent "civil war" in Iraq is being done by the Iranians, Syranians and Jihadist who are sneaking over the border. Iraqis don't have much faith in the Americans because we will leave them just like how we left the South Vietnamese. So the civil war is the byproduct of Democrats ranting about cutting and running. We will do this because the average American does not have the patience anymore and prefer to watch American Idol.
Let the Democrats have the ball in their court. Let's see how smart they are with their great plans and deal with this complex terrorism issue. No one has a perfect plan and I'm sure WWII had many failures but people sticked together through thick and thin.
We can't do that anymore as a nation and we have barbarians at our gates.
The only reason the Democrats won this mid-term they went around disguising themselves as Reagan Democrats. The independent voters took the bait.
I don't think the voters will be happy with Bait and switch politics.