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You miss the point...I am lamenting that there is NO choice....It is die NOW or die later. Bush is not a conservative. You may be fairly new to FR..I am NOT a Bush basher...some of you get froth in the mouth and yell "Bush basher" if someone takes Bush to task...I have A LONG record at FR of defending Bush from the single-issue and Libertarian crowd.

His illegal alien ideas are just plain WRONG and are BAD for this county.

His ideas on Health Care are BAD.

I am hoping that we can get enough conservatives into Congress to put an end to this madness....it will not be military might that defeats us, but economic meltdown. Bush is attempting to put in place programs that have the potential to bankrupt the nation.

Now, others with unquestioned conservative GOP standing are saying the SAME. Bush has become the CANDY MAN.

I've been her about a year. Not sure if that shakes the "newbie" status from me or not.

As I said earlier I agree that the Illegal Alien policy is wrong. I'm hoping it's just a carrot thrown out there to shut certain people up. To take "off the table" certain red meat issues the DIM's could use to bash him with like a club over the next year. He never would have proposed things like that when he was Gov. But then again neither would 90% of the DIM's in Austin. It's a different breed of DIM he's dealing with up there inside the Beltway I guess.

I think that W is hoping as you do, that we get more conservatives in Congress this election cycle. That way judges will get appointed at ALL levels. CFR will get repealed and some of these liberal programs can either be shrunk in his budgets or outright eliminated completely.

I think from what I know of W, from his time in Midland and as the Gov. of my state he is a conservative at heart. I think in my heart of hearts he hates personally some of the things he's proposed but he has to in order to get the "swing voters" and the non-hating moderate DIMS (i.e. The Reagan DIM's) on his side. Anything less than a landslide this year I think will fuel the DIM's to further obstinance and obstruction in the House and Senate.

While pandering is unpleasant and takes a strong stomach it is a very necessary evil these days at the level of politics that W is currently playing at.