[Redleg Duke]

I am amazed at the number of people who totally miss out on the strategy being used here by the President. Sure he has increased spending, but at the same time, he has successfully stripped the RATS of their traditional campaign issues.

Think about incrementalism. We didn't get in this Socialist-inspired mess over night. The RATS did it incrementally. To correct this, we have to do it in increments and if we use the RATS own meat axe to do it, so be it. Once the RATS are out of power...and I mean without a filibuster capability, then we can finish the job.

[Howlin]

The first result is that the Republican Party is more unified than ever before. Ninety-one percent of Republicans approve of the job President Bush is doing. In 1992, Bush's father didn't have anything like that level of support, and even the Reagan administration was split between so-called pragmatists and ideologues.

Today's Republicans not only like Bush personally, they also overwhelmingly support his policies.According to a Pew Center study, 85 percent of Republicans support the war in Iraq, 82 percent believe that pre-emptive war is justified, and 72 percent believe the U.S. is justified in holding terror suspects without trial.

[AndyObermann]

So we should sell out on our principles to take away the talking-points of the Dems?

[Uncle Fud]

Incrementalism is fine if it means achieving conservative goals incrementally. We're not doing that. We're going incrementally in the wrong direction.

And as far as getting rid of the "filibuster capability', you can't discount the RINO factor. As long as the RNC keeps backing the Liddy Doles and Arlen Specters, you'll never see a conservative majority on the Hill.

[reelfoot]

The only "incrementalism" I see from Bush et al. are incremental moves to the left. If years of bloated federal government are to be reversed, don't we need to go in the other direction?

[honeygrl]

"I am amazed at the number of people who totally miss out on the strategy being used here by the President. Sure he has increased spending, but at the same time, he has successfully stripped the RATS of their traditional campaign issues."

So his strategy is "Screw the conservatives, I want to take stuff from the Dems"? It's gone too far.

[TigersEye]

Think about incrementalism. We didn't get in this Socialist-inspired mess over night. The RATS did it incrementally.

Oh wow now I get this strategery! The PUBs make a huge leap to the left and then start crawling back to the right. Ayup, that oughta do it.