[jimkress]

When Bush got elected I thanked God. Now I'm beginning to learn the truth of the aphorisms "Sometimes God punishes you by giving what you ask" and "Be careful what you ask, you may get it".

Bush is betraying the people who got him elected. Bush is betraying the 'principles' for which he claimed to stand.

We should address our letters to the White House to President G.W. Gore.

[Kobyashi1942]

I miss Ronald Reagan.

[Zathras]

People tried to tell Bush Sr. he was making a mistake by raising taxes.
People tried to tell Bush Sr. to stop compromisizing with the DemocRats.
People tried to tell Bush Sr. to get off his butt and campain in '92.
People tried to tell Bush Sr. to abandon this "thousand points of light" goal.
People tried to tell Bush Sr. not to abandon California in the '92 election.

This came from people who CARED about the future and saw he was being setup.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Even Mr. Tancredo acknowledges that the strategy of pragmatic compromise will "win Bush a bigger share of the vote in 2004."

"But he can win and still push the conservative agenda. We don't have to win at any price. We can win at a smaller price."

What exactly is winning smaller than a 500K-popular-vote loss? A 1M-popular-vote loss? Thanks, Tom, great strategery! The whole reason Bush acts this way is because Gore won the popular vote.

Hell, Reagan won the popular vote in two huge landslides and still did things like not abolish Cabinet offices, appoint Sandra Day O'Connor to the SCOTUS when he had a favorable senate Judiciary Committee when Robert Bork was available (having served as a Professor at Yale Law School from 1962-1975 and 1977-1981; Solicitor general for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1972-1977; and Acting attorney general of the United States from 1973-1974), among others.

[Ben Ficklin]

I always get a kick out of counting the Bush Bashers.

Through 200 replies there are 35 of you.

If you type faster, it might seem like there are more of you.

You people didn't vote for Bush in 2000 and you are not going to vote for him in 2004 so who cares what you think.

[varon]

Bush is betraying the 'principles' for which he claimed to stand.

Right on. Bush is not doing things that are right but things that make him popular. He wants to be liked. ( re-elected )

[ForOurFuture]

Noone should be surprised.

[Texbob]

Geo. W. is more Liberal than his daddy and more Liberal than a lot of democraps. This will come to haunt him.

[Nephi]

George W. Bush: "Read my lips - I'm a conservative!"

[LibKill]

Bush makes me unhappy some days.

AlBore would have made me unhappy every day.

That's the reality of politics.

[Jhoffa_]

"If you keep emulating Clinton, eventually you become Clinton,"

[foreverfree]

bump

[agrandis]

Bush is betraying the 'principles' for which he claimed to stand.

Actually, his actions are matching up with his words for the last few years. I have to give him that.

That's why I just couldn't bring myself to vote for him. Some were telling me he just had to SAY certain things to get elected. I took him at his word, but I said that if he's a liar just to get elected, that's not the kind of man I want there either (Lord knows we've had enough of that). Happy to say, he is at least not a liar, that I know of. That's good for him, but he's still bad for us.

But the main problem is not Bush or any votees, it is the populace.

[LiberalBuster]

Anyone who thought Bush was going to advance a "conservative agenda," is naive in the extreme. His Texas record alone should have been a red flag. But, instead, we were told to vote for him because he was the only one who could win. Nevermind principles. Lets just get a guy into the White House with an "R" next to his name ... and all will be well. If you elect a neo-con ... don't expect anything but a neo-con agenda.

[Don Myers]

Bush is allowing unlimited immigration into the US. That is one big problem. If a nation cannot control who passes over its borders, there is no sovereignty. And, unlimited immigration will change the culture into a completely different society. And, that has been the dream of the left for many years. If our "Conservative" president furthers the agenda of the left, what are the real conservatives supposed to think?

[jimkress]

"Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart
is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue
his principles unto death." --Thomas Paine

[_Jim]

Are you copying all this?

[mconder]

All you people who thought voting for a third party candidate like Howard Philips was throwing a vote away, what do you think now? Either way we would have been stuck with a leftest pig, so why not try something different. The establishment has presented tweedle-dee and teedle-dumn choices for president for the past several decades. One of the biggest scams on "conservatives" was Reagan. Said he would get rid of the NEA and it's still here and Bush is growing it larger. Bush is a globalist cronie just like his father, don't expect redirection to Constitutional principles from him. He would just as soon have world government here NOW.