Don't forget why Bush was elected

Jewish World Review ^ | July 9, 2002 | Michael Long

[carenot]

Yeah, I am listening.

In California in 2000, Gore easily beat Bush, and by a dozen percentage points. Today Bush beats Gore in the liberal stronghold by seven points.

Liberals like what he is doing.

I don't.

[carenot]

With Algore or any other democrat in office right now we would be speaking arabic and our wives would be wearing burkas.

I disagree.

We would not let Al Gore get away with what we have let Bush get away with.

How can we conservatives let him go on with this agenda?

[WKB]

Great Article. BUSH/CHENEY 2004!

Don't you mean

Great article. Bush/? 2004

[nravoter]

Yes! And don't forget why Bush-41 was not reelected...

Because he tried to show the left he was a moderate, and angered his base in the process?

I voted for him and his son, and they're both upstanding gentlemen (a welcome change from Slick, to be sure), but it's not the conservative base's fault that they've been alienated more than once or twice.

[nravoter]

Bush is a popular leader, and this is a useful thing for Republicans-especially considering how rare such popularity is. His approval ratings have stood at superhuman levels for months.

Popular enough to get away with advancing conservative principles, maybe?

This is the part that disappoints so many of the "Bush-bashers": When will there ever be a better opportunity to advance our cause? If the country continues to drift to the left even in the short time since 9/11, there's no stopping it in sight.

[Ben Ficklin]

Did you notice that when the Urban Park Renewal/Restoration Grants were awarded week before last that not one city in CA recieved one? We got 8 here!

Cogitate on the significance of that. I mean, like do you dudes out there have bad grant writers or is Dub sending a message?

[olliemb]

Yeah, but your candidate WON'T WIN!!! Once you figure that out and Yeah you can disagree with the borders, but do you want a democrat with liberal ideas--judges, abortion, Godless society, higher taxes to run the country, less military, or do you want a president like Bush who might not agree with you 100% but holds conservative views that are important. It is hard for me to understand that the border "thing" is the reason you would not vote for Bush. Even Buchanan admits now that he won't run b/c he finally got it--people don't like him for a president b/c he is too ultra right!!!. Now if PJB does not run, would you then vote for Bush or would you go ahead and vote for the democrat as that is whom you don't care if they win.?

[Sabertooth]

Did you notice that when the Urban Park Renewal/Restoration Grants were awarded week before last that not one city in CA recieved one? We got 8 here!

Cogitate on the significance of that. I mean, like do you dudes out there have bad grant writers or is Dub sending a message?

Here's the message I wish every politician in America had the stones to say...

Keep the grants, and tax us less.

I don't want grants, and neither should you. Nothing more than vote-buying with money taken at gunpoint. That's the problem, not the solution.

If the President is playing these kinds of games, it might be simple political arithmetic to you, but if folks get wind of it and don't like it, don't complain if your ballots don't add up the way you thought they would.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

At least you're no MurryMom-- posting and running.

LOL! **MOM ALERT**

[Ben Ficklin]

Were you opposed to this funding act in 1973 when it was enacted? How about a similar funding act from the 60s?

Of course you know that the feds need some way to disburse those funds they collect as royalties.

[Willie Green]

-people don't like him for a president b/c he is too ultra right!!!.

Similarly, I've been a staunch conservative for 30+ years.
I have no intention of sacrificing my principles just because
"compassionate conservatives" want to swing the party leftward.
I am firm in my resolution that my vote has to be earned.
If Dubya wants to alienate the conservative base, that's his problem, not mine.

[Consort]

Yes! And don't forget why Bush-41 was not reelected...

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Because he tried to show the left he was a moderate, and angered his base in the process?

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If we got Clinton for 8 years because Bush's base got angry, then this so-called base is one the problems our country faces. For 8 years, the Left has been filling all three branches of government at all levels (federal, state, and local) with socialists, communists, progressives, liberals, etc. They will be there for generations. They've taken over our colleges, the entertainment industry......you name it. It looks like the base is way off base.

[Consort]

....and then the Democrats ignore or intentionally screw up our foreign relations and our military so that any Republican President has to spend most of his time fixing those problems and not correcting the Liberal damage being done domestically.

[Drumbo]

[Sabertooth]

If we got Clinton for 8 years because Bush's base got angry, then this so-called base is one the problems our country faces.

Wrong lesson. Our politicians owe their loyalty to us.

Bush 41 didn't have it, so he lost. No one's fault but his.

[nravoter]

For 8 years, the Left has been filling all three branches of government at all levels (federal, state, and local) with socialists, communists, progressives, liberals, etc.

Why is the left so much more dedicated to advancing their agenda than Bush is to advancing Constitutional government? During a good portion of those eight years, Clinton had a Republican Congress with which to contend, and he still moved us to the left, thanks to the weak-kneed Republicans in the Senate. Why is Bush so timid that he can't use his wartime popularity to push the conservative side?

It's not as if we're asking for every left wing program to be rolled back over night but, for God's sake, could "our guy" at least go a couple of days without proposing socialist programs of his own?

It looks like the base is way off base.

Which is more likely: that all the conservatives upset with Bush changed overnight, or that one man (Bush) has sold out that base?

[olliemb]

No, Willie, it will be YOUR problem when the democrats start running the country.

[Willie Green]

No, Willie, it will be YOUR problem when the democrats start running the country.

Friends, neither Beltway party is going to drain this swamp, because to them it is not a swamp at all, but a protected wetland and their natural habitat. They swim in it, feed in it, spawn in it.

-- Patrick J. Buchanan, "A Plague on Both Your Houses"

Go Pat Go!!!

[olliemb]

Go Pat Go!!!

What part of the swamp do the liberal judges swim? What part of the swamp do the higher taxes go to clean up? What part of the swamp will allow guns.Where oh where will the abortions take place? And of course the borders will remain open!!! Oh, Lordy, Let me see--I will waste my vote and vote for GORE!!!

Why even bother to work hard to get the majority --Gore and Clinton raised taxes in 1993. Go Gore and Clinton!!!!

PJB indeed has great rhetoric. I even enjoy listening to him. But no one votes for him. You are a cheerleader of 2 (I think Stevie 50 has PJB pompoms). But you know PJB announced the other day on Hannity that he was not running. So who you gonna vote for now?

[Consort]

Similarly, I've been a staunch conservative for 30+ years.
I have no intention of sacrificing my principles just because "compassionate conservatives" want to swing the party leftward.

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Then you will be a "principled" runner-up (as in Loser).

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I am firm in my resolution that my vote has to be earned.

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Hillary appreciates your firmness and she looks forward to being your President.

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If Dubya wants to alienate the conservative base, that's his problem, not mine.

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Alienation is not an option. There's too much at stake.