Bush Says Will Sign Campaign Finance Bill ( NEWS CONFERENCE, El Salvador )

REUTERS ^ | 3/24/2002 | REUTERS

[conserve-it]

"Robinson's Maxim: If you vote for anyone other than a Republican you are supporting a Democrat."

Robinson's Maxim is as solid as the rock of Gibraltar. You ask me what I want you to say? All I was trying to do is solicit an opinion as to what we can do to get the RNC and our President to do the right thing, without them thinking we have nowhere else to go. Well, they are right. We have nowhere else to go. But I still expect them to do right by us. If there is a way to affect this without denying my vote, BELIEVE ME, I am all ears!!

[TLBSHOW]

Rush has the tape on now

[VRWC_minion]

Sounds kinda like he lied don't it? ...Just like his daddy.

Maybe its me but I don't see where he lied.

[wardaddy]

I'm a pragmatist when I have to be. I would love to be an ideologue when I can get away with it. I am VERY disappointed by both this and 245(i). I think Bush is indeed wrong on both counts BUT I have no choice but to support he and his party. There is no alternative. Diligent conservatives like you or I cannot get elected. We simply must get the Senate back in the fall. I'm sure he will disappoint me again in the future. I will live with it...for now. The alternative is simply unfathomably worse.

Regards.

[conserve-it]

I have been listening since 9;06, thanks much!!

[conserve-it]

"Diligent conservatives like you or I cannot get elected"

Oh yeah? How did Mitch get elected? How did any conservative get elected? They got elected by living a clean life,(so they can't be blackmailed) and standing up to principle.

[Howlin]

We're doing it; we give money and support write and call and vote; that's ALL we can do.

[wardaddy]

I'm talking far right folks...socially and fiscally. We cannot get elected nationwide today so we have to be happy with the best we can manage. I am not happy about this ...trust me.

Mitch is ok on this issue but he's a porker on others.

[TLBSHOW]

Are you listening to Rush? He can help you understand why Bush is losing his base.

[conserve-it]

"Mitch is ok on this issue but he's a porker on others."

Better a porker than someone who wholesales my rights. I agree with Laz on this; Ronald Reagan would not be elected today. But my reasoning may differ. He would not be elected today, not because he couldn't, but because the RNC doesn't have the testicular fortitude to run a REAL conservative anymore.

[conserve-it]

I GUESS RUSH READ MY POST 85 BEFORE THE SHOW

[wardaddy]

Look I'm not happy either but I'm not throwing in the towel on a Quixotic crusade because I'm pissed. My favorite Pubbie is DeLay...big suprise right....followed by Helms....but neither could run for President. Folks like me and probably you too are only maybe 20 percent of the voters and we're narrowly demographically defined. We have to win what we can and fight the long fight. We're fighting a political war that started after the Articles of Confederation ....then Andy Jackson....then Abe....then Wilson...then FDR.....then LBJ....and now. It's battle against the Federalizers and entitlements crowd....we have lost for the most part over the past 200 years so we are going to have to take what we can or have a revolution and we lack the popular support to win that...right now. Gun confisction might be the catalyst.

Hang in there.

[Redcloak]

On the campaign trail, he said he'd veto it. Now he says he'll sign it. Most of us call that lying. Or at least we used to. Must depend on what the meaning of the word "is" is. Does anyone get it yet? Does anyone understand why I'm calling W a liar?

[Ragin1]

"wasn't their fault she got elected"

Who's fault is it?

[anniegetyourgun]

Reminder: Many on FR have already announced their decision to sit on the sidelines/opt out. ("I'll never vote for Bush again" or "I'll never vote Republican again".) That means their carping shouldn't rile you one bit because they are now inconsequential - by choice.

[The UnVeiled Lady]

I'm a pragmatist when I have to be. I would love to be an ideologue when I can get away with it. I am VERY disappointed by both this and 245(i). I think Bush is indeed wrong on both counts BUT I have no choice but to support he and his party. There is no alternative.

There is an alternative

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

----Declaration of Independence

[wardaddy]

Honey......Don't start the revolution without me!

[nopardons]

The mental idgets, who won't vote for President Bush , in 2004; that's who. The " MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN THOU " crowd, who don't understand politics, but still run their mouths here. You know, the group who the Dems adore. : - )

[nopardons]

Those people are GREAT at CCPing ; however , when it comes to putting their money where their mouth is, they fold.

[nopardons]

Hi annie ! Boy, are you right. These " serial caller " posters don't really matter ; most wouldn't have voted for him anyway. They haven't a clue about politics and how to get what they want. All they can do is complain.