Posted on 03/16/2002 10:01:26 PM PST by StopDemocratsDotCom
It took a while for Bush to win over Conservatives who now support him all way. That's why I hate it when the word RHINO is thrown left and right when talking about a Republican who may do something that seems out of step with what we agree with and we don't realize that politics is all about winning and looking like a "centrist"
Check out this 1999 Article:
Conservative talkmeister Rush Limbaugh blasted away at George W. Bush with both barrels today, stoking a possible clash between grass-roots conservatives and the front-running candidate who is already pursuing a centerist general election strategy.
"He's really wandered off the reservation here lately folks," Limbaugh intoned, before making the case against the recent Bush positioning.
"In my mind," he told his listeners, "no conservative running for president would make the kind of statements that he's made. No conservative running for president would leave his philosophical brothers and sisters dying on the congressional battlefield the way Bush did with that EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) thing. And now he's done it again with the speech at the Manhattan Institute. He's done it twice in seven or eight days time."
"This obviously is a carefully crafted strategy." Limbaugh continued. "What it means is that solid conservatives from Tom DeLay to Dick Armey, who are doing all they can to eke out small majorities and beat back Clinton and all his Big Government schemes-issue after issue-end up being emasculated by Bush's comments."
"Who wants a Republican moderate as president?" Limbaugh asked, a question the Bush camp must hope that other conservatives don't begin asking.
"who pays the UN costs to overthrow the American way of life with your tax dollars."
The very FIRST order of business for Congress last year, while Republicans still had the majority in the Senate,
was to authorize back payments to the UN.
8 years of klintoon to clean up and this was their 1st priority.
27 posted on 3/16/02 1:40 PM Pacific by 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/647551/posts?
As a Right Wing Conservative, the answer is: GW IS SCREWING HIMSELF! Conservatives dumped his father. We won't find it more difficult to dump him.
Is he banking on being the only semi conservative running, and we wont have another choice? HAHA! We won't vote for another man who abandons principles.
RUSH IS RIGHT!
Why must we on the Right be so cannibalistic? It makes no sense.
The real question becomes, can he keep the public on a high war fever pitch during his time in office? I think it is doubtful. I think he will eventually be judged on his domestic policies. This is where he is vulnerable just as his dad was.Trying to expand his popularity into the liberal ranks is alienating his base. CFR, immigration, NWO, WTO, even alienate a lot of liberals.
Even though conservatives take great satifaction in controlling the White House, it still boils down to the Congress molding the direction of the country. If GW had a Congress that was conservative, we wouldn't be seeing the compromising we are now seeing from Bush.
Does RICO define terrorist as someone that may "Appear to be intended-- to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion".... "provided that such investigation of a United States person is not conducted solely upon the basis of activities protected by the first amendment to the Constitution´"
After watching the He*l the DemocRATS put America through for 8 years of Clinton, I vowed to live by Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment-never publically critize a fellow Republican. The last time I checked, FR is a PUBLIC forum.
Obviously, some conservatives have never read "Loose lips sink ships." at the bottom of every FR post.
We are not going to sway 43 through protest. 43 is 43 and his course is set.
Conservatives should not desert the Republican Party nor destroy the party image.
We need simply to work quietly in the background to remove 43 from the ticket.
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