Just don't understand people that if a President doesn't do 100% of what they want, they won't vote for him or the Party again. Talk about narrow minded thinking! I didn't agree with the Education Bill but does that mean I don't support this President -- not on your life! Politics is about making compromises time and time again except on your core beliefs. There are certain things he will not compromise on much as people on here want everyone to believe he will. Guess they would rather have a pomposs jerk for President that won't compromise on anything -- their way or no way! Sometimes when a person is in the Oval Office things look different. President Bush is not just President of Conservatives, he is the President of the United States with more on his plate than anyone has had in a long time and these people on here cannot quit complaining about every little thing he does they don't like!
Without the Senate, there will be no conservative judges but why should they let a little detail like that stand in the way. Laws are changed in the Judiciary as they are declared unconstitutional -- we need conservative judges who interpret the law not make the law!
All this banter about something in the NY Times is a joke. Since when did Freepers believe the NY Times or Rush believe the NY Times -- seems only when it puts President Bush and his Administration in a bad light! There is an Agenda at work here as there is across America -- there are memos from the DemocRATS discussing how to best cut off conservatives from this Administration but guess what so far it isn't working but some Freepers are buying into the rhetoric of the NY Times, WP, and LA Times which is just amazing. Guess that happens when you have a different agenda! Instead of being above board, we get the rhetoric that President Bush has lost their vote and so have the Republicans -- how can you lose something you don't have to begin with -- how many people stayed home or voted 3rd party that say that. Now some of us that won't listen to Rush anymore are called Losers.
If this is what conservatives are all about, I do not believe that I want that Label -- just being a Republican suits me just fine for a label! I am very proud to call myself a Republican and work for Republican candidates to win this Fall to Take Back the Senate and Keep the House. Will be right there in 2004 supporting President Bush's candidacy for a second term also. Some folks on here now have me convinced in total if there is an (R) behind the name, they have my vote!
Listening to some of these folks it seems to me what they want is a Dictator in Office who with a sign of the pen will do away with every thing and every one they don't like
Hmmmmmmm ... I am thinking this is the kind of thing our Founding Fathers wanted to avoid when they wrote the Constitution
1. The majority of votes in this country must be solidly left of center -- and in favor of greater government outlays, enviromentalist, anti-free enterprise, Pro-Palestinian, and so forth. If movement is made to the left this strongly in order to acquire the votes necessary to win, then how will it be possible to ever move back to the right? Will there ever come a time when those votes will not be necessary to win?
2. Once having adopted at least a good measure of Democrat positions, how then does Mr. Bush credibly flop back to the right? If he states that they are right on the issues, how then does he ever oppose them in the future? For example: Having stated that the Democrats/religious environmentalists are correct about the causes and effects of global warming how then, in the long term, is an effective argument made not to adopt policies to ameliorate it? By adopting their premise, he has granted them a nearly endless supply of material to demagogue him (and pro-business Republicans for many years in the future) with.
To wit: How can you give tax breaks and "environmental regulation" breaks to rich corporations and greedy special interests when it means that your children will get melanoma by age 25 because of the greed of nasty businesses?
Or don't you think you'll hear that? We've seen the result of what has happened to Republican backbones over the "starving grandma and the children" attacks. What will we see when now the Republicans are endlessly accused of killing children outright? And all because a Republican President admitted that they were right???