We don't even know if the whole purpose behind it was to get Conservatives up in arms.
It makes no sense.. I think it backfired, whatever the reason was. And we already see backpedaling.
I never believed that President Bush even believed what he was saying about jobs Americans wouldn't take.
I agree that the Amnesty issue has pushed some people too far, and that not reelecting President Bush would be a major blow for the United States. SO there is some work to be done re gaining those Conservatives who ran off.
I don't think many angry Conservatives are backing Kerry.
I guess you could make the argument that third party voters would in fact be electing him de facto, but I don't see them campaigning for Kerry. I just don't think that is fair to say.
I think there are some confused Vets, who are angry about the pension pay vrs. disability pay issues, but I don't know that they were ever Republicans in the first place.
The real issue is that if the President is going to loose a huge group of people based upon an "amnesty" platform, then he and his advisers need to rethink how much they really want to push that issue.
I think you will see many "third party "voters come back as we hear about the President backing off from Amnesty.
I don't think the President is a RINO- I think he is trying to get reelected in a scary world of voter fraud, Democratic dirty tricks ,and mass manipulations by the left.
Perhaps we have SOME of the noise makers to thank for getting the message out that pushing amnesty isn't going to get him there.
No one knows for sure in the world of double reverse.
President Bush is not Hitler, he is not Satan, he is not a leftist, he is not a liberal.
Anyone saying those kinds of things are not angry Conservatives, they are misinformed at best.
This issue was misrepresented (read lied about ) in the National News Media and frankly by some major Vet's organizations who now feel the need to become hand out recipients rather than true Veterans' Organizations. Any vet voting for Kerry is fool at best.