Posted on 07/10/2002 11:27:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
This is an unofficial quick and dirty presidential poll. Apparently, there is a good sized contingent on Free Republic that believes that President Bush is:
Please list the numbers that best match the reasons you don't like Bush (or state other reasons if not on the list) and state whether you believe that President Bush should be defeated even if it means installing a Democrat in the Whitehouse.
Conversely, if you believe President Bush should be re-elected, please state why.
Please state who you would like to see win the Presidency in 2004 and whether or not you believe he/she has a chance of winning.
Thanks,
Jim
Who is conned by that lard-ass contrivance anymore? "I'm a slug, I don't support anything, I'll set my standards so high that no party is worthy of my support and I can justify my lard-ass inaction as principle. Woo Hoo!
Most worthy of a repeat, Arne. Anyone who thinks the political process is no longer a valid avenue of change really has no business coming around to FR to whine and moan their despair.
We did and they squandered it.
After their embarrassing failures, they are courting Democrats because they know some conservatives will seek retribution and the rest have no where else to go. They think they have a free shot of chasing the left or the middle with little or nothing to lose from the Conservative base. And if everybody listens to what you are saying, the Republicans will be right. And perhaps the larger tragedy, is regardless of whether the Republicans win or lose this November won't matter to the conservative agenda. Since Republicans are running on a socialist's platform, we will be the losers regardless of who is in office.
Never mind the terms "conservative" and "liberal." Bush seems to understand America's founding ideas. He is, however, President at a time when most American adults have never studied those ideas. If he can use his plain-spoken manner to convey and reconfirm
1)that our lives, our inalienable rights, and our liberty come from a Creator;
2) that there is, in fact, a "Supreme Judge";
3) that ideas have consequences; and
4) that September 11 proved that there are two equally powerful forces at work in the world--good and evil--one of which produces liberty and life, and the other which results in tyranny and death--if he can reconfirm these ideas for the current generations, then he will have earned my vote.
Not pro-life Not proven.
Is a gun-grabber
Not yet determined.
Is a federal power-grabber Desperate times demand desperate measures, and although it's troublesome, others have brought us to this point.
Will appoint liberal judgesWon't believe until I see.
Is a globalistPerhaps, but he follows a long line.
Is in it just for oil No.
Is too soft on immigration Yet to be seen.
Is too soft (or too hard) on Israel What would you do?
Is a crook Not so
! All of the above
None of the above
Other (you name it) Follows the most corrupt man who ever held the office and one who almost singlehandedly disarmed America, both militarily and morally. George Bush, next to him, is a throwback to the founding period.
Unless Washington, Madison, or Jefferson are resurrected and run in the 2004 election, Bush has my vote!
We need a President and a political party willing to take a stand and block the lunatics on the left. The Republicans are not even taking a stand. Does the "R" stand for "R"etreat?
Seventy years is enough patience. When should we expect progress?
I don't care if they snuck across the border or not. I want to know who is here, where they are and what they are doing. I'll swallow my indignation for the bigger win.
I propose lawsuits galore over providing county entitlements and local school access to non citizens. I propose a local, county and state grass roots movement to remove those who would take our money to provide benefits to those who do not reside in our county. We need to sting the ID syndicates HARD!!! We need to throw State Civil Servants into prison if they traffick illegal IDs.
Within 12 months, 2/3 of illegals will be back in Mexico or Somalia. No welfare, no work skills ... no America for the unskilled or weak. No parasites. Immigrants who break their backs and honorably make a days wage so their children might have an education and prosperous life here - that makes me tingly! That's America Goddamit! Stay out of the way of that Tooth. It's bigger than you or me.
I would vote for "W" again in 2004. In 2000 he was the only choice on the ballot....So far he has done a good job - not neccisarily excellent, but better than I thought he could do.
1.Is a socially and fiscally republican and stays true to basic party line.
2. First time I've heard this logic.
3.Gee, I understood that when he went and trained with the F.B.I./C.I.A. recently in shooting and driving skills that perhaps it was a hint to all to be better shots and sharpen up on that driving!
4.Power-grabbing....or is it pulling the stops out only to stop terrorism? Klintoon refused to accept responsibility when U.B.L.'s head was offered to him...."W" said "dead or alive", I like that.
5.After the comments on the judges after the "Pledge Attack" by the idiot from the 9th district, I can't imagine anyone believing his judges would be anything but serious conservatives.
6.Globalist?....Ya, ask Coffi tincan and the U.N. boys if they think "W" is going to cave in to that stupid I.C.C. noise? Don't think so.
7. "W" is the only president ever to work in the great state of Alaska....Therefore has real world view of developing A.N.W.R.
8. This maybe true.
9. Could give Israel a break.
10. Not true.
Would vote for him again. He won't make it if the goofs who are third party hard-liners go it alone, thus giving it the liberals. Needs to get all the republican and"floater" votes to beat all the dimorats in 2004.
It's entitlements amd welfare.
Oh, and lastly ... it's welfare and entitlements.
Commence besieged bitching!
1. Not conservative enough
As conservative as he can be and still be elected and maintain support from the apathetic public.
2. Not pro-life
Nonsense. I don't agree with his exceptions for rape and incest as reasons for abortion, but Bush is pro-life.
3. Is a gun-grabber
More nonsense.
4. Is a federal power-grabber
To a certain degree born of necessity but since 9/11 changed everything we'll never know the true answer to that question.
5. Will appoint liberal judges
If anyone believes this they are deluded, big-time.
6. Is a globalist
To a degree but he's not giving up U.S. sovereignty. The term 'globalist' has different meanings for different people.
7. Is in it just for oil
Nonsense on stilts.
8. Is too soft on immigration
Yes, he is. This must change and I hope it doesn't take another terrorist attack to do it but I fear that it will.
9. Is too soft (or too hard) on Israel
Bush is just right on Israel. His speech last month that called for new Palestinian leadership and held out the carrot of U.S. help if that (ever) happens was a masterstroke.
10. Is a crook
Insulting, slanderous nonsense, totally false and without a shred of evidence to back up such a foolish ststement.
11. All of the above
Only if you're a liberal posing as a conservative, a Libertarian or one of those perpetually angry and negative types that populate some corners of Free Republic.
12. None of the above
#8 is the only real exception.
13. Other (you name it)
George W. Bush foiled the Democrat attempt to steal an election from him, performed as a leader should on and after 9/11 and has generally been an excellent President with sharp political instincts.
That he gives some quarter to the Congressional Democrats may be frustrating but it's also inevitible and reasonable. Bush isn't the president of Christian conservatives only. While I would like him to do more 'conservative' things, such as tightening immigration, I realize that he's doing a lot under the constant pressure of the Democrats to demonize him and thwart his agenda and the liberal media's endless attempts to defame and minimize him at every opportunity.
It's not easy being even a mildly conservative president in this environment but Bush is performing well. He's never going to be (nor does he want to be) Harry Browne or Pat Buchanan or some other hard-core fantasy President but then, George W. Bush actually gets elected and does effect some changes while the perpetually sour piss and moan 24/7 while offering nothing but 'coulda wudda shoulda' to the man actually in Teddy Roosevelt's political arena, getting bloody and dirty and fighting the good fight.
I was for George W. Bush two years ago and I'm for him now.
Heaven will be perfect and I anticipate being there someday but this is earth. America in 2002 and we're talking politics, not theology. No politician is 'perfect' in any way. Never was. I'm certain that had FR existed in 1782, George Washington would be critized as too soft on something or other. That's politics.
President Bush is a good man doing a good job in trying times. He has my support and my vote in 2004 and I believe that all the anti-Bush 'conservatives' that endlessly catalog his perceived faults and shortcomings here every day and constantly proclaim that they'll vote Third-Party or refuse to vote at all in November and especailly in 2004 will be rather embarrassed when Bush wins by a landslide - without them and their endless criticisms of a good President and a good man.
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