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George Bush II.

George Bush II ran as a "compassionate conservative."
(Given the alternatives I'd still have voted for him, but as the lesser of two evils, not as a second coming of Ronald Reagan).

Bush II betrayed the conservative movement and screwed up the Republican Party on the National Level.

After an apparent good start in the 9-11 incident (although there were disquieting things there too - like referring constantly to Islam as a "religion of peace", trying to pander to the Palestinian butchers as though they were a legitimate state, etc.) he started to go downhill.

We are faced with the Iraqi "Insurgency" - a problem an intelligent man would never have gotten us into in the first place. After taking out the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the Sadddam bunch in Iraq, we should have moved immediately to support the student insurrectionists in Iran and wiped out Saddam's fellow Baathists in Syria. Then LEFT. Afghanistan is sufficiently isolated to create a decent government there and the people aren't Arab Muslims.

Iraq is surrounded by Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, Shiite Iran, etc. and is a politically unstable area. At best we could have divided it up between the Kurds, an ayatollah free Iran and the Jordanians and probably have stabilized the area.

But we didn't. We decided to tie ourselves down in an impossible experiment to bring democracy to a part of the world which never saw it, had a long history of instability of its own, no real sense of nationhood and was surrounded by undefeated enemies of ours.

Very very stupid move. But to criticize Bush's policies there leads some people to think you are criticizing the war itself or our military. Enough of that has gone on by the fruitcakes leftists in Democrat Party.

Domestically, Bush II betrayed us again. He tried twice to pull a fast one - the Dubai Port Deal and Harriet Miers.

Then he appointed Gonzales as his Ag and we are facing the specter of greater and greater invasions of southern borders by illegals and a scheme concocted by the Bush administration and the Dems with the help of selected RINOs to give amnesty to illegals - something most Americans and certainly most conservatives oppose. I won't even mention McCain-Feingold and other Bush problems - there are too many of them.

Now, facing Hillery or Obama Osama we apparenlty have a northeastern big city liberal Rudy Giuliani leading some polls which indicate he may be the Republican Party standard bearer - a man who is a Democrat philosophically with a long history of supporting Democrats and a viable opposition waiting to make an appearance.

Its no wonder Americans in general and conservatives in particular are disturbed, confused, angry and fed up with the system.

George Bush II ran as a "compassionate conservative." (Given the alternatives I'd still have voted for him, but as the lesser of two evils, not as a second coming of Ronald Reagan).

Bush II betrayed the conservative movement and screwed up the Republican Party on the National Level.

You make a lot of sense. Speaking for myself - the thought that I might have to vote for the lesser of two evils again - depresses me so much, it's certainly taken alot of the air out of my balloon.