How Bush could lose it

OC Register ^ | 1/25/04 | John Hood

[NormsRevenge]

President George W. Bush blew it Tuesday night. He delivered a State of the Union address that downplayed his most promising - and potentially revolutionary - domestic-policy initiatives. Earlier drafts had reportedly contained a lengthy exposition of his vision of an "ownership society," expanded and strengthened by tax changes and Social Security reform.

[Dec31,1999]

Can someone tell me if being in deep national debt makes it easier for foreign countries to take ownership of American properties? Don't laugh. What are we leveraging are national debt with?

We leverage our debt with faith in our government, our economy, and our ability to pay it back. Nothing more and nothing less. Just like any other country.

[Dane]

however I am also seeing Republicans who are very disappointed in Bush,

A very small but vocal crowd on FR. Same thing happened in 2000 when the Buchananites posted all the time. Pat got 0.3% of the vote in 2000.

[lsmith1990]

In 2000, it was estimated that 4m conservative christians sat out the election. These people cannot be reached.

I am amazed by people who think it will be ok for conservatives of Bush loses, we can simply regain the White House in 2008. We wont. What would happen if Osma Bin Laden was caught while a Dem was in the White House? Kiss good-bye the 40 year advantage the GOP has enjoyed on national defense. The electoral college has shifted so much since 1988 against he GOP. A Dem win in 2004 will mean the Dems will become the majority party again.

I would like to be here when Rhenquist retires and is replaced by Laurence Tribe. Will the far right be screaming?
They will have no one to blame but themselves

[PersonalLiberties]

Either you or Meg posted the "scare" not me. So it is not mine to answer. I was simply asking a ?

About the only thing we agree on is that we don't want america taking orders from the UN

[PersonalLiberties]

okay it was lsmith who posted the scare

[13foxtrot]

A demo would be kissing the ring of Kofi Annan and the UN.

Now that Saddam has been ousted I would welcome more UN involvement in Iraq.

I am glad Bush went in there and took care of business. I am glad Bush is our president today. I just don't think the direction the Republican party is going is good for America.

[Dane]

I just don't think the direction the Republican party is going is good for America

That's your personal opinion. 91% of the Republicans disagree with you.

[PersonalLiberties]

that I guess is the percentage that thought the Republicans at least grew the govt. slower than the dems. But that is no longer true.

[Dane]

that I guess is the percentage that thought the Republicans at least grew the govt. slower than the dems. But that is no longer true.

Uh there is war on also remember that 91% knows that the demos will grow taxes and not cut them.

[13foxtrot]

Are you a plant?

Do you support:

1. open borders?
2. pandering to China?
3. the largest Farm Subsidy bill in history?
4. the Can-Spam bill? (...a minor issue, but a personal peeve)
5. shielding SA?

Are you a plant?

[carenot]

Hi, how are you?

[arete]

He never had it. You probably voted for a no name third partier in 2000. Your disingenuousness is very tansparent.

You speak much nonsense and make fictitious self-serving assumptions about people. I voted Bush once but I will not vote Bush again. Nothing transparent about it. Bush isn't a conservative and I'm personally getting tired of the "lesser of evils" argument. Evil is evil and voting for either Evil A or Evil B runs contrary to my principles and values. People who want to jump off a cliff for party loyalty are very foolish.

Richard W.

[Dec31,1999]

A very small but vocal crowd on FR. Same thing happened in 2000 when the Buchananites posted all the time. Pat got 0.3% of the vote in 2000.

Excellent point. If he had won even 2% of the vote, Al Gore would have become president. I suppose we would still be negotiating with the Taliban to this day.

[arete]

I am seriously looking into these guys as well as some of the other alternative parties.

I think that I will vote Constitutional party or maybe a write in of Ron Paul.

Richard W.

[Dane]

Bush isn't a conservative and I'm personally getting tired of the "lesser of evils" argument. Evil is evil and voting for either Evil A or Evil B runs contrary to my principles and values. People who want to jump off a cliff for party loyalty are very foolish

When you find you reach your perfect political world of marshmallow pies and marmalade skies, how about sending me a postcard. I believe that I will be waiting a long time.

[PersonalLiberties]

nice to see you again

[13foxtrot]

Evil is evil and voting for either Evil A or Evil B runs contrary to my principles and values.

True. Rationalizing between and among so-called lesser-evils is a manifestation of the classical pattern of ethical compromise.

National, as well as personal ethics, are destroyed by singular small self-serving rationalizations.

[Dane]

I suppose we would still be negotiating with the Taliban to this day.

No doubt, and Gore also would be negotiating that the Taliban were enviromentally friendly, while obl was planning his next attack.

[arete]

I am just trying to get Dane and you and all of the others back to what FR says it was suppose to be about.

Those guys would support Joe Stalin if he had an R after his name. No principles and no values -- just mindless blind party loyalty crap.

Richard W.

[Beck_isright]

"I think that I will vote Constitutional party or maybe a write in of Ron Paul."

Ditto.