[Zack Nguyen]

While President Bush is doing very well with a 70%+ approval rating, he has done little to pass this approval rating on to his party. It may not even be possible to do so.

Bush's popularity is based almost entirely on his excellent war leadership. Imagine if their were no war - would conservatives have accepted Bush's spending spree, signing of CFR, etc. and maintain Bush's high approval ratings of their were no war? Should his excellent leadership end for any reason, Bush's administration could suffer politically.

[gunshy]

Bush is far and away the best democrat president of the last hundred years.

[Zack Nguyen]

bump

[KC_Conspirator]

I have to agree with the author. There are few in the GOP who really excite me. And hell, the fact is that the GOP strategists are telling everyone to run as democrats even though the number one issue by far is The War on Terror.

[Redleg Duke]

Oh,yeah! Let's all just give up, hunker down in our self-righteous indignation, refuse to vote out the DemocRATS and pray for the moral uprising that leads to the revolution that destroys this country to make it safe for the Libertarians to take over and establish their dictatorship of anarchy.

Or, we can pull our heads out of our butts and see that GW is playing the best game possible with the hand dealt to him by indifferent voters and traitorous people such as "Jumpin' Jim" Jeffords. We need to rise up and throw out the DemcRAT Bastards this Fall and give GW the Republican-controlled House and Senate he needs to get moving. As long as the RATs control the Senate, they will continue to obstruct progress...but then, the brigadeers and brownies don't want progress. They want dissatisfaction and devisiveness. They aren't any better than the liberals.

[RedWing9]

Why should Republicans bother to vote GOP next November 5? Inexplicably, President Bush and congressional Republicans are giving their party base myriad reasons to go fishing on Election Day.

Republicans and Democrats have proven to be pigs in a bipartisan pen on pork-barrel spending. While some Republicans still treat taxpayers' dollars with reverence, too many more stand gleefully at the trough, snout-by-snout, with their Democratic colleagues.

I disagree, we should instead try to vote for persons who "still treat taxpayers' dollars with reverence". By not voting we are enabling those to stay in office which this writer decries.

[alpowolf]

If they can't affirmatively support or even defend their agenda when the President is popular, when can they?

Whatever happened to the "smaller government" conservatives?

[linn37]

you like the idea of more democrats running the show in the fall,you go ahead and go fishing.Just don't whine when Charlie Rangel and Gephardt have you by the balls cause I don't want to hear it.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Help here?

[N. Theknow]

Never underestimate the stupidity of the GOP.

Two Democratic Presidents in the past 30 years (and among the WORST Presidents ever).

WHY?

Nixon Pardon and "No new taxes" pledge broken.

I say again, "Never underestimate the stupidity of the GOP."

[samtheman]

There's always a way to get involved, always a way to make your vote and your campaign contribution count. Not all Republicans are good, but there are plenty of good Republicans. What's the bottom line of this author's argument? That the fight is a tough one so we should all give up? That doesn't even sound like advice to me... but rather, disinformation straight from the camp of the Enemy.

[arkfreepdom]

I simply can't believe that people are stupid enough to think there is no real difference between the pubs and dimwits. They must be dimwits.

[Mudboy Slim]

"A popular conservative president should steer Congress starboard. A May 14 - 15 Fox News poll of 900 adults found Bush's job approval at 77 percent (+/- 3 percent). Alas, like his father (who achieved 90 percent favorability after the Persian Gulf War), G. W. Bush guards his political capital like an heirloom rather than invest it for even greater gains."

Exactly right...MUD

[Jumper]

The Democrats can only wish that Republicans might somehow become disaffected by their constant barrage of "Bush is a democrat" and "turn's off his Republican core"....

The truth is somewhere between the Democrats don't have any issues and the Repbulicans has pacified the opposition....

The Republican's are poised, if they turn out in average numbers, to sweep the Democrats in a number of races.

Predict that the Republicans hold 57-58 Senate Seats, short of the sixty needed; and pick up 10+ in congressional districts.

[Charlotte Corday]

President Bush is not running this November. I do not intend to make my vote a referendum on his performance. Instead, I will vote for whichever Senate and House candidate(s) most clearly express a belief in lower taxes and less government regulation. If that's a Republican, that's fine by me. If it's a third party candidate, that's fine by me too.

[Coop]

G. W. Bush guards his political capital like an heirloom rather than invest it for even greater gains.

That's just a downright dumb statement by the author. This President has been quite busy raising funds for GOP candidates.

[uncbob]

CAR ROVE'S Strategy

take away democrat issues by voting for and signing democrat programs that way the GOP can take back the senate


Fast forward to post ekection after the GOP gains back the senate by a narrow margin
CARL ROVE'S Strategy---Prevent the democrats from regaining the senate by voting for and signing democrat programs

ROVE HAS GOT TO GO

[Jagdgewehr]

Based on this thread, it is easy to see that Democrats wiil be in control of Congress in November 2002.

[uncbob]

If the democrats ever tell Sarah Brady to take a "Flying Leap" the GOP will lose the house and senate both

[rdb3]

Why should Republicans bother to vote GOP next November 5?

This non-Pub is thinking... That lil ol' thing called the Senate, maybe? Where judgeships for the next 15-20 years are decided and will have longer lasting effects on this country after Presidents are gone? No! Just go fishing. Let the Left have control of our courts.

[Bill Davis FR]

if the stupid republicans go fishing on election day all they will catch will be more democrats in congress...happy fishing suckers...