Republican Right Abandoning Bush

MSNBC ^ | May 5, 2006 | AP

[wotan]

WASHINGTON - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.

Six months out, the intensity of opposition to Bush and Congress has risen sharply, along with the percentage of Americans who believe the nation is on the wrong track.

The AP-Ipsos poll also suggests that Democratic voters are far more motivated than Republicans. Elections in the middle of a president’s term traditionally favor the party whose core supporters are the most energized.

[LibLieSlayer]

"Do you really think we can afford the huge increases in education spending or the ridiculous medicare drug program?"

Yes, considering it is actually making a difference in educating our youth. When the NEA is bitching constantly about NCLB, it must be doing something right!

Tom Delay explained in his interview with Rush, that in the long-run, the Senior Drug bill IS saving us a tremendous amount of money.

"What should be even more important to conservatives is where exactly in the constitution is the US government authorized to enact such programs?"

It all started when that UNCONSTITUTIONAL INCOME TAX was instituted. Try to overturn that demon, and the battle will be over!

LLS

[Ben Ficklin]

The far right is composed of various groups that share certain characteristics. One of those charateristics is their need to demonize their opponants.

That is why you tried to imply that only the self-annointed "true conservatives" believe in the rule of law, and everyone else is a lawless bastard.

[papertyger]

Unfortunately, politically, he's turned out like his dad on issues here at home. "No child left behind", senior drug benefits, farm subsidies, growing government much faster than Clinton and rewarding illegal aliens with citizenship.

Ya know, I can forgive him for spending like a drunken sailor, what with the WOT and all...even to the point of throwing some meat to the societal parasites in order to preserve political capital.

What I can't get tolerate is allowing all that to fight the war, then having him leave our pants around our ankles so some SOB builder can get a fifteen percent discount on his cost to frame new houses.

I may hate the other side, but I despise someone on my own side betraying me. If the republicans won't dance with the one what brung 'em, the don't deserve to go to the dance at all! I will not vote for a democrat, but that doesn't mean I WILL vote for a republican.

[thoughtomator]

Conservatives didn't abandon Bush, he abandoned us.

I'm amazed it took 12 posts to have someone state the obvious!

[thoughtomator]

The reality is that the far right doesn't have enough votes to elect a president. Your only claim to political power is that you can prevent someone from being elected.

Even this center-right has been stiffed by this administration, which has taken domestic policy decisively to the left. And if the right doesn't have enough votes to elect a President, the elitist country-club Rockerfeller/RINO wing of the GOP definitely can't. Yet, through this President, they rule anyway.

[William Terrell]

So, you have no thought for what you would do, if you "reconsider"? Can you handle a tough question?

I'm sure you would rather think about a posterity graduation, but you weighed in politically, not academically.

Now, what will you do. You have only five options: die, vote republican, vote democrat, vote third party, not vote.

Which will you choose. If you can't face these issues, you don't need to vote at all; you need to leave it to the adults.

Is your granddaughter conservative, really? I'm not sure you know what a conservative looks like, from the positions you have been taking on issues here at FR. If you back people that call themselves "conservatives" but act like liberals, or think that "conservative" equals "republican", how can anyone trust your discernment?

Please, tell me what you will do when it finally dawns on you that you have been had.

[sarasotarepublican]

The far right has no claim on Bush because they didn't elect him. They didn't turn out very well in 2000.

Bush won Florida by 700 votes. Nader syphoned off 90,000 votes from Gore.

Even after Florida, Bush would not have been elected were it not for Democrats in West Virginia giving him their handful of electoral votes that put him over the top.

The reality is that the far right doesn't have enough votes to elect a president. Your only claim to political power is that you can prevent someone from being elected.

OH BOY, are you ever correct. Conservatives stay home, democrats get elected. This makes a Hillary Clinton Presidency very possible.

Until the Conservatives can rid themselves of the "FAR RIGHT" title, (given to them by the media and the democrats, they have little chance of being a majority.

[tobyhill]

He's been here since 1998 and you've been here within the last 6 hours and you're hoping he survives past the morning?

[thoughtomator]

Ash has a very long history here...

[tobyhill]

I just read his register date and it shows this morning so how would I know it's "the ash"?

[kittymyrib]

It would be grossly unfair for conservatives in the House to be defeated because of the President's liberal spending and his disasterous amnesty plan for illegal aliens. Every conservative needs to get out and vote for conservatives in the House and the few conservatives in the Senate. The RINOs can leave with no regrets because they've done nothing but vote with the Dems anyway.

[rollo tomasi]

Perot did not give us Clinton, the moderate Bush with the "No new taxes, bend over and let the Dems have their way with me" is what caused the Clintons.

But you blame conservatives or Alfalfa with the grudge instead of the weak Republican collectivist whose promises were broken.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

They seemed more motivated and enthusiastic than the right in 2004, as well. Republicans never get out and protest to the extent of the left because we have jobs, families, and responsibilities. The more giddy the MSM gets over this, the more likely they are to be stunned (once again) at the results in November.

Yep, you nailed it...

I do not believe a single poll out there, they are all from leftist liars. Who trusts pmsMSNBC anyways?

Many of these polls are done during the working hours (9 am to 5 pm) while all of the shiftless and lazy welfare types are watching soap operas and the night-shift working people are asleep... or, in the evening hours while most responsible folks are busy with family or volunteer work and the lazy are on their fat rears watching stupid sit-coms.

[lemura]

DU deep-cover trolls

So threads comprised of conservatives who criticize Bush on the border/amnesty issue are really deep cover DU trolls?

Remember the scene in Jurassic Park where the attorney hid in the portable toilet wishing the T-Rex wasn't really there? And then he got eaten?

Conservatives, such as myself, who are four-square behind Bush on almost every issue, are the T-Rexs of the GOP's nightmare regarding illegal aliens.

[papertyger]

The far right is composed of various groups that share certain characteristics. One of those charateristics is their need to demonize their opponants.

Wow, I didn't realize we had credentialed doctor of $***house philosophy here this a.m.

I guess the ability to spell above a fifth grade level is another?

[RFEngineer]

"Conservatives didn't abandon Bush, he abandoned us"

To be fair, Bush never was a conservative. Whenever the dreaded "C" word was uttered, it was qualified.

Of course he wanted us to think he was conservative, but he never was - just seemed so after Clinton.

[seemoAR]

I have voted republican every time there was a chance to. My allegiance belongs to the United States of America. I swore an oath to protect our Constitution against any enemy, domestic of foreign. I will support a political party only as long as it adheres to the Constitution. I will not support any party that turns its back on it.

[PhilipFreneau]

Refusal to control illegal immigration, out-of-control spending, expansion of federal control of education, CFR, a prescription drug entitlement, and the rehabilitation of Bill Clinton by him and his parents, are some of the areas where Bush has abandoned his conservative base (not to mention abandoning rationality). But, IMO, his most damaging policy has been his "new tone" of appeasement, which has proven to be a "green light" for the left to continuously attack him with lies and innuendo without fear of retribution. That, combined with bumbling, inarticulate press secretaries, has given the left virtual majority power.