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.
Except...
..."See? I Told You So."
(ALL in good humor...permit me to be just a tiny bit provocative an hour before St. Paddy's Day hits here...)
;-)
In fact I simply had to stop listening to him. SO...just SHUT UP, Rush!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In fact I simply had to stop listening to him. SO...just SHUT UP, Rush!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bush is defenantly no conservative. And I don't care for John Stalincroft either.
C.H.
You are being sarcastic right? I don't like the fact Stalincroft pushed for the "PATRIOT" Act, and I don't like the fact that "conservative" Bush signed it. I don't like Bush's stand on Guns either.
C.H.
ROTFLOL!! That is probably the most outragious thing I have ever read on FR.
C.H.
I think that remains to be seen.
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