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The author is right. Bush is no conservative as demonstrated by his recent support of the $100 billion plus socialist farm subsidy bill and his embracing of the Clinton-Gore propaganda pseudo-science on global warming. However, I do think his policies might improve if he dumped his liberal advisors like Karl Rove and Colin Powell. Thankfully, I sense that Bush's conservative supporters are beginning to wake up to the reality of Bush's unending appeasement of liberal Democraps and his refusal to veto ANY of their unconstitutional and big government legislation.

Among those longtime Bush supporters who have been increasingly critical of Bush increasing leftward tack--Rush Limbaugh, David Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and the list is increasing. According to Sean Hannity, Bush apologists use his success in the war on terrorism and his 2% of GNP tax cut passed last year to justify Bush's every surrender to the left. Yesterday, Sean Hannity called for Bush to begin to take a principled conservative stand against the liberals in at least SOME policy areas. It is becoming increasingly clear that George W. Bush is not only no Reagan, he is not his father either. Former President George H. W. Bush Sr. was never idealized by conservatives as Reagan was, but at least he was willing to take principled conservative stands on some issues, while George W. Bush clearly is not.

Bush's abandonment of his conservative principles and breaking of his campaign promise to fight the McCain-Feingold Democrat Incumbent Protection Act and ally was really the last straw for many of his previous supporters on the right like me. Bush cannot continue to ignore and yes alienate his conservative base by his support of liberal policies and hope to get re-elected in 2004. He will have to return to a more reasonable center-right approach to governance.