HOW CONSERVATIVE IS PRESIDENT BUSH?

The Cato Institute ^ | August 3, 2002 | By Veronique de Rugy

[afuturegovernor]

On a conservative scale of 1-10 with Bill Clinton being a 2, Ronald Reagan an 8, and Ron Paul a 10, Bush is a 3.5.

What? How on earth someone with a voting record in the 70's from the ACU be given a ten?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This stuff is getting very tired. The President is less conservative than most of us would like, and is more conservative than many of us expected. He has and will make proposals that many will think not conservative, and has and will make proposals that most of us will be proud to support.

I will support him when I agree with him, oppose him when I disagree, and tend to give him the benefit of the doubt when I have doubt. I fully expect to give him my support for the nomination, and enthusiastic support in the general election.

I may be wrong, but I think it is likely that most freepers come down more or less where I am on this subject. A laundry list of the issues where he is less than wholeheartedly conservative will not have the least effect on anyone who has been around for awhile, and has become very repetitious, to put it mildly.

[Texasforever]

Sometimes the truth requires very few words.

[rintense]

Completely agree.

[gcruse]

Pathetic.

[Twodees]

Actually, the poster of this thread should be the first indication.

Uncle Bill was posting evidence of Clinton corruption while you were defending him against impeachment. Just start another of your campaigns and get him banned the way you did Registered. Call Gramps in here and you two get to work. You'll have another old time FReeper banned and you can congratulate each other.

Liberals. Ya'll make me sick.

[Texasforever]

Maybe you can tell me what Reagan did that Bush has not done other than raise taxes. As to Ron Paul; what a joke. Hell yes you can get a 10 if there is not a thing to lose. The guy has done absolutely NOTHING of any significance. He is harmless and just Jim Trafficant with better hair.

[Texasforever]

Grow up.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Not a big Ron Paul fan, but I don't think he is a crook like Trafficant.

[terilyn]

Great post!

RJJ - Check out #42, it's terrific!

[Twodees]

Shut up.

[deport]

....banned.........

dd.. you kinda stretching the truth aren't you?

[Texasforever]

Ronald Reagan had 6 years with control of the Senate. That was the time in which his agenda was passed after 1986 Reagan was in the same box Bush is in now. Bush had one month with control of the Senate and yet he has actually surpassed Reagan even with a shooting war 7 months into his first term.

[sinkspur]

Just start another of your campaigns and get him banned the way you did Registered.

Registered's been banned?

Well, hot damn! What did he do?

I liked his graphics, but he's been pissed since Keyes was dumped from MSNBC.

Must have gotten carried away.

BTW, nobody reads Uncle Bill's stuff. Thought you'd like to know that.

[Jesse]

1) Cut taxes...for real, then and there. Not a promised tax cut over ten years. 2) Rolled back regulatory burdens. 3) Beat the Soviet Union. If Dubya or Dubya Jr. had been president during the 80's, we'd be sending billions of dollars in foreign aid to the USSR to this day. What didn't he do? He believed that he could just get along with Dems and their promise to cut spending.

As for Ron Paul...Well, what single House of Representative would you nominate for being a conservative, pray tell? It isn't his fault that the GOP is a bunch of vote buying, big spending liars for the most part, dressed up in conservative drag...sort of like Dubya.

[Texasforever]

Shut up.

I rest my case. Grow up.

[Spirited]

I was a Reagan delegate.

His largest drawback was having Bushpappa insinuated on him.

[Nayt2]

i was never under the impression that bush was on the far right side of the party. perhaps you should pay better attention during the campaign.

that said, i support president bush and will vote for him in '04.

[Texasforever]

Regan had a republican senate when he made his tax cuts and for 5 more years. Bush had one for 1 or 2 months. At least know the history of the '80s before pronouncing judgment.

[Twodees]

Suspended and the man says it may as well be a permanent ban because he isn't coming back. What is it y'all want anyway? You want this site to be called Republican Underground? Name it and claim it.

This site could lose the entire clique of Bushbots and survive. Losing all the old timers who carried the fight to the democrats while most of the W swoonfest posters here were voting democrat will kill this forum. Keep it up and there won't be an FR anymore.