[RAT Patrol]

Dude, I'm no "moderate." But neither are you a "conservative," more likely, a Brigadier or radical Libertarian who can't wait to bash Bush. So you were never "in" the coalition.

LOL! I gave over $500 ($700 about?) to the Bush campaign, about $150 to Alan Keyes, $100 to the Republican party, and more to various organizations. I wrote letters to the editor for Bush, I carried around campaign garb. EVERYWHERE I went, etc etc... I've given HOURS to the man. But then, those are facts that might not fit into your little dream world.

[LS]

So we are about even. Either you were not fully informed of Bush's positions (and I admit on CFR, he flatly went AGAINST his campaign promise), or you deliberately chose not to grasp what his "compassionate" conservatism was.

Otherwise, he kept his promise on tax cuts; he kept his promise on advancing SDI; he kept his promise (much to my dismay) about "no child left behind" (and there IS some competition in that bill, and if you are a good conservative, you know that all we need is a crack and we win); and he has kept his promise to revive the military. All that, without a friendly senate, and while fighting a war. I call that a pretty successful first two years.