[Twodees]

You know, I think Bush doesn't care about reelection. His daddy didn't. Those Bushes seem to want to do all the damage they can in one term, then when they lose their bid to reup, they just start grooming another family member.

After two terms of Clinton, any conservative running for president should have won in a landslide. Bush's squeaker of a win shows that he never had any conservative base to start with. He isn't going to give a $#!+ whether he offends the few conservatives who voted for him. His base was a bunch of big tent liberals who would fit right in at any democrat party gathering. Just look around FR at the ones who defend him.

[rebelsoldier]

Bush obviously thinks conservatives can be safely jettisoned in place of a larger group of liberals and "moderates" he can pick up by going ever left and growing government to gain their support. What he fails to realize is that liberals aren't going to jettison their own base or leftist ideology and values to rush to his candidacy in 2004. In short, they will play up to him, all the while planning to stab him in the back come November. It's political rope-a-dope. Of course Bush will gain liberal votes, he already has, but not to the extent that it will put him over the top against his Democrat opponent, especially when liberals en masse will vote for the Democrat candidate regardless of what Bush does. As for Republicans, they will split into three groups: dropouts who will stay home, suckers who will drink the Bush Koolaid no matter what and cast a vote for him anyway, and committed conservatives that will vote a third party or also stay home. At this point I have no reason to further support a man who has done as Clinton did, to destroy the base of his own party and sell it out for more power and a second term.