[upchuck]

President Bush's about-face on trade tariffs, stricter campaign finance regulations and other deviations from Republican doctrine is beginning to anger his conservative foot soldiers but does not seem to be cutting into his overall popularity - yet..... Yet with an overall 80 percent job-approval rating in the polls - including 90 percent of all Republicans - there is no evidence thus far that these and other departures from party positions have weakened the president's broad support among voters.

Oh, this article is about Dubya? I thought for a minute there it was about his Dad.

Hey Jim, how come the dashes in the quotes got turned into question marks? I fixed this by manually changing the question marks back to dashes. I've also noticed apostrophies being turned into a question mark or a space. FYI

[shrinkermd]

"Within that context, as long as he is staying true on these core areas, he's not going to have any major problems with his political base. Everything I've seen says he is still the catalyst of strength for the Republicans in this election cycle," Mr. Franc said"

This fellow is dead wrong. The worst thing for a leader is to lose his loyal cadre. Masses do not make good soldiers. The President disses his base much like his father did. The outcome will be the same.

[gorush]

So THIS is what rankled feels like.

[snopercod]

If Bush is a conservative, then I'm Santa Claus.

republicans [lower case intentional] like him are why I left the party.

Considering the lack of comment on Bush's treachery against the Constitution this morning, I'm gusssing that many people feel the same.

I hit the streets in Asheville, NC for him during the election. Now, I just feel like a sap.

[Boucheau]

I just hope the Supreme Court takes care of it.

Politicians suck! ALL of them!

[borntodiefree]

LIAR

Now I'll just sit back and watch the Bush appologizers come a runnin...I can hear it now..

He's done good in a lot of other areas...

You don't understand politics...

He had to compromise to get reelected...

Let's see what they come back with to complete my list