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George W. Bush wrested the presidency from the party that had held the White House during a major and protracted economic boom, even though the incumbent party benefited from pervasive bias in the press and massive voter fraud.

I don't where you were or what you were reading during the campaign, but there were very few actual GW supporters then. Very few. For the longest time he never said where he stood on anything and rode that wave of popularity right into the debates.

Most of the supporters on FR were party loyalists who insisted that any vote other than for whomever the Party selected was a vote for the Dems or the Anybody But Gore types. People were so frightened of algore winning that the 'hold my nose one more time' types abounded. Republicans rank and file were not thrilled with the way that GW was 'selected' without anyone really knowing where he stood on what issues. The Party liked him because he is personable, attractive and almost an anti-clinton with few skeletons in the closet.

When he finally came out on issues, he came across as a Moderate who promised to increase the federal government and ease up on immigration.

I was wrong on one thing; I predicted that he would toss 2A supporters to the Dems as a bone, but he decided to shaft everyone an sign CFR to trash the 1st.

Rush kept saying that he wish Bush would be more Conservative than compassionate and Bob Dornan knew that Bush would need to be pressured heavily to stay in touch with the conservative base. Domestically, we've seen more of hte Democratic agenda in Bush's first year than all of clinton's eight!

Bush was so inspiring that he barely beat the dolt algore who never got his makeup right. The Republicans were more successful at scaring people into voting against algore than the dems were at scaring people into voting aginst Bush. But just barely.

Eagle Eye, you said: "I don't where you were or what you were reading during the campaign, but there were very few actual GW supporters then. Very few. For the longest time he never said where he stood on anything and rode that wave of popularity right into the debates."

So "there were very few actual GW supporters then. Very few.", but (in the very next sentence) "he rode that wave of popularity right into the debates."

Thanks, I needed that!