Are there any conservatives out there who feel betrayed by the Bush administration?

Question

I'm very interested to hear the reasons.

Answer 1

Yes I do I had faith that our men and women were going into battle to get a job done not to police a country that no longer wants us on their soil nor appreciates what we are doing let alone some of them are killing our men and women by shooting them in the back and calling them accidents BUSH AND HIS HENCH MEN NO LONGER HOLD FAVOR WITH THIS CONSERVATIVE!

Answer 2

At least you are asking an intelligent question for a change.

I have a hard time answering yes, because I was never duped into believing that GWB was a conservative. He mouthed a good line about "compassionate conservatism" and all, but I know enough about his family to realize that they learned how to pay lip service to Reagan conservatives but continue on in the more liberal Nixonian/Rockefeller tradition. So none of this really surprises me.

I am however, disappointed by virtually every Bush policy save the tax reductions. Thanks to the reductions, government revenue has skyrocketed over the last six years. Unfotunately, all pretense at fiscal responsibility from the White House to Congress has been abandoned. It is almost like the 536 top execs at "USA Corp" know we're going out of business and are lining their pockets with everything they can grab.
The War on Terror has become a tragic joke while we're bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan. I understand why we bracketed Iran, which was always the main target if you listen to Bush's speeches, but why not go quickly and stick the dagger in the heart of the beast instead of cornering it to a point where it knows that it has to fight or die? I still believe that freeing Iraq from Hussein's gulag was necessary but with Iran out of the way prior to that, it would have been a lot easier.
That said, I don't believe we can blame him for everything. Gas prices would be high no matter what we did today. India and China are buying it up like mad. Though I approve of drilling in ANWR, it's a bucket of spit in the ocean as far as oil is concerned.
He was a bad choice but still the best choice of the three in 2000 and 2004. It's sad but maybe that says more about us than him, Gore or Kerry.

Answer 3

Betrayed is the wrong word. I am disappointed that he hasn't been able to work with congress to limit the size of government. They have spent money like drunken sailors. The tax cut to everyone who pays taxes was a great start (would have been better to adopt the Fair Tax plan but I will take what I can get), but Bush just wound up spending like a liberal.
Anyone who says they feel betrayed because of the war is really naive.

Answer 4

Nah - the last President that I felt betrayed by was Lyndon Johnson. Bush is a piker compared to Johnson and Nixon.

"Betrayed" is a codeword the far left-wing uses to suggest that Bush is a dastardly character who has stabbed the electorate in the back. Anyone who allows themselves to feel betrayed by a politician (and this is more true the higher the office) is naive and thinks of the politician as their mommy or daddy or wife or husband.

Those are the sorts of people one generally may feel betrayed by, not politicians. If you feel "betrayed" by a politician, it's time to grow up and join the real world.

Answer 5

yes. Bush promised compasionate conservatism. Conservatives are supposed to be spend-thrift, not run up the biggest budget defisit in history. Conservatives usually follow a home first foreign policy. Bush just wanted revenge on the man who tried to kill his dad. Lastly, the only people who have seen Bush's compassion are the really rich, and the oil companies. The rest of us poor shlubs have gotten left out of the agenda. The Bush administration has left behind the libertarianism that made me a conservative. I hope the Democrats sweep every major election. There are no real republicans left. Where have you gone TR? Where have you gone?

Answer 6

I voted for Bush in the 2000 election and voted for Kerry in 2004. I don't know if I felt betrayed, but I do know that Bush showed me exactly what a Neocon could do in the Presidential office...meaning that they want all the bad things about socialism like robbing the people of their freedom but don't want the good things of socialism like socialized health care.

I suppose you can call that fascism since the people of this country get nothing for the rape of their freedom.

But yeah, back to betrayal....I think I did feel betrayed at first, but then I realized it was my own ignorance that compelled me to vote for Bush the first time and I only could blame myself for such a mistake. I should have read more about the election, I should have questioned more when my pastor told me that Bush was the person to vote for, I should have been a compassionate person instead of insisting that I was a "compassionate conservative".

Answer 7

Anyone who believed him when he said that he would use diplomacy to solve foreign relations problems should feel betrayed. When he invaded Iraq with no proof of WMD's or Saddam-Bin Laden ties, he betrayed all Americans and especially our soldiers. I believe in fighting terrorists where they are stationed, not invading a country and letting the terrorists come to us there. He had all of the support he could handle to go into Afghanistan and find Bin Laden after 9/11, but instead he had to try and convince us that Hussein had something to do with it and that he was going to kill us all with his "weapons of mass destruction." I'm a Democrat (or Demoncrat, Damnocrat, DemocRAT, etc...whatever they want to call me, I don't care) but most importantly, I'm an American...and I feel betrayed by the Bush administration.

Answer 8

No. Clinton betrayed this country. Bush just hasn't done enough. And, he trusts democrats too much, he thinks they'll actually try to help this country more than themselves.

Answer 9

honestly no,.. not really.

I'm a conservative moderate myself.

George is just a lesser evil, not a greater.
We've had to have someone in the center seat, we could of had worse. But now that he's had his two terms, will the next monkey be better or worse, lets just hope it doesn't get a beating where a spanking is good enough.

Answer 10

Bush has betrayed everyone by lying.