[MissAmericanPie]

I think she over looks the fact that not everyone that takes a poll bothers to go to the voters booth. Given the closeness of the last election a hundred votes can make or break a candidate.

Bush has toss'ed his base out in the cold by far more than a hundred votes. I rush to the television now to turn him off when he comes on, I can't bear to look at the man or listen to what he has to say. What he is saying probably isn't in my native tongue anyway.

I think 2004 will be a very interesting election given the Democrats habit of stuffing a couple of million bogus votes in the ballot boxes and given that a small, but possibly critical, percentage of the base will go fishing that day.

[altair]

I think you're correct. I wasn't especially enthusiastic voting for President Bush the first time around. 2004 will be especially interesting if the DemocRATs manage to nominate someone other than Algore. I'm especially afraid of a Hillary! campaign.

[CWRWinger]

a small, but possibly critical, percentage of the base will go fishing that day.

Rather than fishing, how about clean and test firing a few weapons?

[olliemb]

I feel sorry for you if you go out and fish and vote for a less deserving candidate. Mr. Bush has done very well on the war and he needs to get the support of the senate and the house. It is sad that you have already made up your mind about who to vote against. It is sad b/c votes like yours will put my life and the life of my children at stake b/c we are in a big fight for our freedom and for the way of life we have. But instead you would prefer CFR to have been vetoed, farm bill to be vetoed and for the president to give the democrats issues to hit him with. You should be shouting at the top of your voice regardig the thrashing by the democrats and the intimation that the president deliberately held back responding to terrorist threats. Go figure people like you who abandon ship. The republican party is a family who believes in certain values. The president has a plan and it is to win the war. It is up to the family to bond together and be unified in supporting him.

[montag813]

Bush has toss'ed his base out in the cold by far more than a hundred votes. I rush to the television now to turn him off when he comes on, I can't bear to look at the man or listen to what he has to say. What he is saying probably isn't in my native tongue anyway.

Hold your nose, turn him off, do whatever you need to to.

But, please, come November, VOTE REPUBLICAN.

Bush is our only chance to give us a unbeatable 7-2 majority of the SCOTUS, which America will need desperately to endure the coming global-socialist war on our culture.

[rdb3]

Bush has toss'ed his base out in the cold by far more than a hundred votes.

think 2004 will be a very interesting election given the Democrats habit of stuffing a couple of million bogus votes in the ballot boxes and given that a small, but possibly critical, percentage of the base will go fishing that day.

The certifiably stupid will act this way. But I'll tell this part of the "base" this right here, right now:

If you purposefully and willfully fail to support G. W. Bush in '04 and another RAT wins the White House, SHUT YOUR MOUTHS.

Don't criticize anything they do. Do not utter a sound when one or two far-Leftists get nominated and seated in the SCOTUS.

You will have sold out, not only yourselves, but the country as a whole because you KNOW what the RATS will do. Your political naïveté is simply appalling.

Again, if you don't support Dubya in '04, shut your pieholes. You will have forfeited your right to criticize because you will have then put in place the government you wanted.

[Jim Scott]

I think 2004 will be a very interesting election given the Democrats habit of stuffing a couple of million bogus votes in the ballot boxes and given that a small, but possibly critical, percentage of the base will go fishing that day.

Then the Democrats win it all, Bush is a one-term President and we probably get another Clinton in the White House. Based on your professed disgust with GW Bush, this should please you. What's the problem? You won't have to listen to Bush or even hear his name anymore. Seems like a win-win for the Bush-haters like you. Smile.

[avenir]

...and given that a small, but possibly critical, percentage of the base will go fishing that day.

Yes, and I hope it's deep sea fishing and something really nasty eats the whiners and their boats whole.

Barring that, perhaps Hillary will take care of the job when she is elected?

[Harrison Bergeron]

I agree with your every word. I love Peggy, but she's way off base on this one. Never, I mean never, have Republicans gained political ground by mollifying Democrats. It works for dems in the other direction because good conservative pubbies will always support a dem when he does the right thing - the dems will give a pubbie no such break, not even when there's a war on. All one need do is pick up the NYT or watch a news broadcast to know this is true. I don't think Bush is stupid or ignorant, I believe he knows about the one way street in Washington... so I have to assume he's the mother of all RINOs.

[ladyinred]

I think that President Bush has sacrificed so much for the good of the country. If indeed Peggy is right, and he is doing all of this for the war effort, then not doing everything his base wants is worth it.
This only makes me admire the man more, certainly not less.

About time we had a President who put the country above his own political ambitions.
Now if only the citizens would follow that commendable path.

Unfortunately, there are too many who care only for themselves and abandon the man when he doesn't give them everything they want the country be darned.
We truly aren't rid of the "me generation" of the 70's and 80's in spite of Sept. 11th.

I wonder what the reaction will be when and if we have another terrorist attack? Will those who abandoned the President because he had to make the hard choices realize they maybe should have supported him in his efforts?
I can only hope, but I am afraid that this is wishful thinking.