"So, on WHAT issues are Republicans allowed to disagree with their president "
NOTHING, in an election year, when the President is from your own party, unless you prefer a Democrat's stand on those issues.
Interesting. So all of the senate candidates have to agree with President Bush on 100% of all issues, or else they're naysayers and not worthy of a vote, eh?
That would be hard to do since they all four main candidates have voting records (although Marin and Casey's records are strictly local) to scrutinize and would therefore have discrepancies exposed, be exposed as liars and hypocrites, and therefore lose.
Talk about your 100% purity test. LOL. Guess you can't for for any of them now. What an unappeasable.
It comes down to whether you want the Republicans or Democrats to win.
It's going to be close, anything done to undermine President Bush only helps the Democrats. If you prefer Kerry/Edwards to Bush, keep undermining him to your hearts content, but stop calling yourself a conservative, and be honest about it.
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