[Rodney King]

Hey, I agree with you guys for the most part. I just don't think we are doing the President any favors if we deny the reality that there is a problem. History tells us that strong conservative leadership wins elections. Nixon ran as a conservative and won. Ford as a wishy-washy moderate and lost. Reagan as a conservative and won. Bush Sr. as a Conseravative and the heir to the Reagan legacy in 88 and he won. He ran as a wishy-washy guy in 92 and lost. Dole as a wishy-washy guy in 96 and lost. W ran as a conservative in 2000 and won.

Right now the white house (for reasons unknown, perhaps they are missing the big picture in the focus group numbers) are behaving like Bush in 92 and Dole and 96. They are trying to pander to every group taht has no chance in hell of voting for them, and in doing so they are risking those who put W in the white house in the first place.

[ambrose]

W ran as a conservative in 2000 and won.

Where did you come up with that? W. ran as Mr. "Compassionate Conservative" "Drug Benefit for Seniors" back in 2000! We had many heated debated back then, and the "Go Pat Go!" Liberty Post crowd was squealin just as loudly back then.

We supported him in spite of this because we wanted to clean the Clinton filthy out of our government and because his opponent was a deranged extremist.

We will vote for W. again for the very same reason. The Rats could have nominated Lieberman and W. would probably have been toast. But they didn't.

[ambrose]

excuse the numerous typos...

[Dec31,1999]

Dole, the Viagra poster boy. Of COURSE people voted for Clinton. People want a vital candidate for president. They are not going to vote for someone who has no vitality, no matter the party. Out of 300 million people, the best the Republican party could come up with was Dole? It was like giving an Academy Award to an old actor simply because they hadn't won one and the time to do so seemed right.

Not a bad strategy for the Academy Awards, but quite a self- defeating strategy to win control of the presidency.

Did I vote for Clinton in 96? You bet I did.(Of course, I didn't know then what I know now) I'd rather have an "evil" genious than a washed up old has-been, in line for reasons of seniority.

They don't call us the "stupid party" for nothing.

Let's wise up!

[MJY1288]

Bush ran as a moderate Conservative, Buchanan ran as the far right conservative, Bush ran on Medicare overhaul, ran on "No Child Left Behind" he has stood on the platform he ran on, he hasn't abandoned his base, he never accepted Pat Buchanan's platform is what bothers all these so called "True Conservatives" around here.

If you asked me if I would like to see a strictly conservative agenda, I would answer "Hell Ya", but I'm not stupid enough to believe we could have one in a country this divided, So all I look for is the general direction to be shifted to the right and under George W. Bush it has, even more than I thought.

Have I been happy with everything Bush has done? NO. but I'm not an idiot who will toss him out and see to it that John Kerry gets in the White House to punish George W. Bush... because I know the only one that will be punished! IS ME AND THE REST OF AMERICA, if John Kerry wins in November