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
Ph.D. in government from Haaaaaa-vaaaad.
That's Harvard for us Southerners.
Things I don't like about Dubya Bush:
1) Fits.
2) (I wonder about this one allot...)
4) Fits.
6) Fits.
8) DEFINATELY. To an extreme.
13) Dubya has a habbit of coming out of the box in a very Conservative fashion, we all cheer and are proud and then somewhere along the line he tempers his response and dilutes it to the point that it becomes all but meaningless and arbitrary. (Look at the "Bush doctrine" and CFR for example)
NO. Until and Unless there comes a Democrat more Conservative than we are (or Dubya is) and is sincere about it, NO WAY.
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.
I don't have a particular favorite as of yet, 2004 is a long way off chronologically and even further politically. I will see what the primary yeilds then in terms of candidates at that time.
All things being equal, I will probably vote for the most Conservative candidate in the Primary and then back whomever the Rino wing of the party shafts me with in the General.
(And PS: Completely off topic.. There was a thread pulled the other day and it was replaced by a placeholder page stating the time it was pulled, who pulled it and why. I think that's a great feature for FR and I hope you keep it.)
Regards Mr. Robinson.
So I agree with B.A.Conservative.
he wasn't blindly trashing the President, he knows of what he speaks.
I need to rethink this whole thing. Wow.
Oh, I may be able to help with that Jim. Here are a few post from some Texans regarding this immigration issue.
Why no! Nothing like that could happen to the great "Republic of Texas". We've got the Alamo. Why, our motto is "Don't Mess With Texas". We print it on T-shirts and refridgerator magnets and everything. We are the biggest braggarts and chest beaters in the nation. You don't know what you are talking about.
Illegal Mexicans aren't taken over Texas. Texas is conquering Mexico. yeah, that's it. That's the ticket. we will just keep telling ourselves that. That way we won't have our overblown pride hurt. Yeah! Thats it.
570 posted on 3/13/02 9:38 PM Pacific by southern rock [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 564 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
____________________________________________________________ So the millions of illegals in the state of Texas don't bother you huh?
Hey Joe, here is one Texan that is bothered by the millions of illegals in Texas. We're flooded up to our necks in illegals in this part of Texas, and I've hadenuf! Deport them all now, and throw in the illegal alien luvin' Texans as well if they love them so very much.
70 posted on 3/21/02 11:43 PM Pacific by Eddie Haskell [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
____________________________________________________________ I live in Houston - I SEE that the Mexicans have no intention of adopting American culture. They live, work and breed Mexico.
(no, not all of them - but a majority)
88 posted on 5/31/02 8:11 AM Pacific by Flyer
______________________________________________________ "Some 1,800 colonias, or shantytowns that developed without services like water or sewers, have emerged along the Texas-Mexico border."
These colonias are mostly populated by illegal aliens that shouldn't even be here in the first place!
Hell, you can drive around the city limits of Austin, Texas and find Messcuns living just like they did in Messco. A trashed out trailer home surrounded by a mini junk yard: Old rusted out cars, old refrigerators, old stoves, and misc. piles of garbage.
We could dump all of the money in the State Treasury into fixing up the colonias, and they'd have 'em trashed out again within a year! This is something that is ingrained in the culture, and throwing money at the problem won't change a thing.
16 posted on 6/7/02 9:19 AM Pacific by Destructor
Oh, and I have more from just about every single state in this country. Let me know if you would like to see more. Thanks for the great thread.
That's bullshit. That needs to be changed, and the 60s counterculture creeps who keep screwing us need to be removed. Wit' a quickness It's all political, therefore is is all DOABLE! IT'S ALL DOABLE!!!!
Let's organize our efforts here on FR! Seriously. Blitzkreig those Marxist theifs and systematically yet gently guide vulnerable indigent non-resident Mexican women, elderly and children back to their homes. Let the worms know we're in the territory, and we're scent marking our kingdom left and right. Hey LaRaza Commies .... why don't you help returning families repatriate their Mexican communities with a secure and ongoing buffer? Those asswipes won't glance at any family returning to Mexico ... not their agenda.
Obviously. Kind of like people who don't think God knows what is in their hearts. Some people think the idea that He does is a real joke, worth pinging their friends to point and laugh about...can you imagine?
Arming the pilots is a no-brainer. It should have been done by the end of September 2001 (if not years before). I will vote for Howard Philips if he runs in 2004.
Seriously;
- I'd settle for more conservative to start with, most conservative is an ideal, but 'more' would be the right direction (pun intended)
- Which people are not ready? The ones who vote democratic, or the ones who voted for Reagan, Perot and Buchanan? And running Dole/Kemp was enough make anyone sit on their hands. There was a lame ticket.
- Maybe not miilions, but a few hundred to swing the outcome in 2000, absolutely. Bush would have lost had it not been for Nader 'swinging' votes from Gore.
yes, I'm thinking about your poll and will post a response to it later...
Very good points. A lot of people on here keep forgetting the first part, I think.
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.
OK, you've still not played.
When Illegals are Amnestied, they count against our immigration caps. That means that law-abiding immigrant candidates are displaced by every Amestied Illegal.
Do you approve of an Amnesty that rewards lawbreakers at the expense of would-be immigrants who want to play by our rules?
I've got family and friends in Texas -- not political junkies, but conservatives, and more importantly, voters. They're disgusted with Bush's immigration policies; particularly 245(i).
I was pretty surprised myself.
After 9/11, I'm not surprised. I think the average American was fatalistic about immigration before that, but the stories of corruption, malaise and diplomatic manipulation within the immigration system since then have made immigration, and our national insecurity, a major concern -- but not to Bush, which is painfully obvious. How he can fight a war on terror, while allowing the terrorist population to be replaced on a daily basis, is a bizarre contradiction in terms. Sure, he doesn't have much control, given the makeup of the Senate -- but keeping his mouth shut on 245(i), and at least making some token committment to controlling runaway immigration, would go a long way with potential Republican ship-jumpers. In this and other respects, he doesn't seem capable of adapting to changing circumstances -- i.e., the mood of the American people -- and adaptation has historically proved to be the province of survivors.
As far as the poll goes, I choose 1,2 and 8. The jury's still out on 3 and 5.
No, I won't vote for a Demoncrat, and no, there's no conservative on the horizon who has a chance of keeping the jackals (in both parties) at bay. Lately, I keep thinking of Rush's chant when Clinton was first elected: "America held hostage." Maybe now, it should be changed to "Conservatives held hostage."
United States of America's President and Armed Forces Commander In Chief, George Walker Bush, understands and practices politics in ways that have "Democrats" tearing out their hair and scraping the bottom of their barrels of envy and hatred and rage and lies in their FRuitless efforts to shake either him and/or America's faith and trust in and of him.I declare this as the MVP (Most Valuable Post) of this thread!
He is, thank God -- and will be for the next six and a half years -- my President.
Whoopee.
If Miguel can go see his parents and kids every weekend, if Maria can visit her husband in Arizona to share his birthday ... Miguel and Maria will follow legal mandates. Then ... you and your guys can start policing REALLY BAD guys who bring drugs, weapons and perhaps terrorist ugliness across the border. You can ply your craft MI! No more standing with a woman and her two elderly aunts who are all babbling and sobbing incoherently. It's alpha male pounding a MexiMafia creep who's bringing plastic explosives to the religion of peace dandies in the biggest Austin Mosque.
That's fun and duty worth getting up every morning for sir! Let's take the confused nitwits out of your equation, so you can do some world-class police work.
Ouch, that name again, just when we Minnesotans were rejoicing at Jesse's petulant departure from the gubernatorial field. No, Jesse doesn't have a prayer . . . and that's true in more ways than one. His negatives are sky-high in Minnesota. The bloom is off "The Body," as a St. Paul Pioneer Press columnist wrote.
Jim, don't know why I've avoided this thread until now, but I've seen nothing to convince me that he will run in '04. His dad gave it up in '92 without looking like he was giving it up, IMO. Of course, if he decides to run for re-election, I'll support him. By this time next year he may have decided he's had enough. Or, more importantly, he may feel he has done enough.
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