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>>>Conservatives need to realize that the real enemy is the Democrats.

Get this through your thick skull, conservatives are the backbone of the GOP. Conservatives know who the enemy is. Stop trying to pick a fight with conservative Republicans. One more time, there is a small constituency of rightwingers who oppose PresBush`s reelection in 2004. They're a much smaller opposition faction compared to the one that existed during th 2000 campaign and will not be decisive in the outcome of this election.

In 2000, all major third party candidates on the rightwing received 1.1% of all the votes. That's roughly just over a million total votes cast out of some 106 million total votes cast by all Americans. Buchanan isn't running. Keyes isn't making waves. The Libertarian Party will get less then the 384K votes they recieved in 2000! Get the picture yet bucko? LOL STOP causing trouble.

Maybe in the 2008 election there might be massive defections by conservatives. This isn't the case this time.

I really believe you're still caught up in the California recall election. That's a different situation all together and has little if no bearing on support for the Bush-Cheney ticket in the general election campaign phase we're in right now..

RE: "Maybe in the 2008 election there might be massive defections by conservatives. This isn't the case this time. I really believe you're still caught up in the California recall election."

That's a great point, Reagan Man. I was wondering what was worrying the fellow.

Meanwhile..

RE: A Pew Research Center poll last month found that 97 percent of conservative Republicans favored Bush over Kerry.

FairOpinion what part of 97 out of 100 don't you understand? This is not between two conservatives.

But there are the rights and responsiblities of citizens letting elected leaders know what we think. Some of us have problems with some things the President does. We would like to let him know. Is that asking too much to be permitted in a free country?

This Washington Times article (below) suggests that the Bush Admnistration needs to try harder to address concerns of citizens beyond fiscal conservatives. There are six million evangelicals out there who did not vote in 2000 . The article addresses evangelicals' concerns. Is it asking too much for the Bush administration to recognize citizens' concerns? Isn't six million votes at least worth expending more energy, on B.S. if nothing else?

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040219-115609-3712r.htm

"'If there is a rerun of 2000, when an estimated 6 million fewer evangelical Christians voted than in the pivotal year of 1994, then the Bush ticket will be in trouble, especially if there is no [Ralph] Nader alternative to draw Democratic votes away from the Democratic candidate,' added Mr. Knight, whose organization is an affiliate of Concerned Women for America (CWA) . . .Religious conservatives helped Ronald Reagan win the presidency in the 1980s and helped Republicans retake the House and Senate in 1994, but complain that they have little to show for their loyalty to the GOP." [End excerpt]

Though generally sympathetic to ILLEGAL aliens nevertheless evangelicals recognize that "Illegal immigration must be halted at all costs: any nation that cannot define and defend its borders is hardly a nation at all." (From another source.)

The ILLEGAL aliens problem is where to find the separation between working class conservatives and mainstream Republican Party "cheap labor" conservatives. That's a real problem. Yes, I know that the Rats are worse.

Sorry for the long post. I just want to add the following. It's not germane to the above. No one has to read it, of course.

As far as the war goes I am all for "taking it to the enemy." That means getting rid of a threat and establishing a foothold at the same time. I approve of the policy, neo-con or not. If FDR had to put up with this yapping crap he probably would have interned the whole lot of them. Of course, we were all Americans in those days, few at that time had "moved beyond being Americans."

I do agree with the following however. But guys like Halper must realize that we are in a war the JCS Chairman, Gen. Meyers, has described as perhaps more serious than W.W. II.

"Actually, the neocons were originally liberal hawks," [Scott McConnell, a former neoconservative who broke ranks in the 1990s and is the executive editor of The American Conservative] says. "When I first became a neocon I was a registered Democrat." Prestowitz, author of the recent book Rogue Nation, echoes this. Today's neocons are not conservatives, he told me, but "right-wing Trotskyists" who are every bit as determined as their counterparts on the left once were about revolutionizing the world. Clarke and Halper call them "Wilsonians with guns."