Republicans....Has Bush abandoned his base?

Question

I, for one, am sorry I voted for him.....
Bush's attack on the motives and character of conservatives tell us it is Goldwater-Rockefeller time again – time to split the blanket. Conservatives need to declare their independence of Bush and to repudiate Bushism as the philosophy of their movement and party.

While Bush's court appointments, setting aside the Harriet Miers mess, have been superb, while his tax cuts have been Reaganite, while his stand on traditional values is courageous, beyond is a vast wasteland as far as the eye can see.

His free-trade zealotry has led to five straight record trade deficits. While America's economy is now growing at under 1 percent, China's is booming at 10 percent. His refusal to defend and secure the borders is well-nigh impeachable. His compromises with Teddy Kennedy on No Child Left Behind have doubled the size of the Department of Education without any appreciable gain in test scores. His "Big Government Conservatism"

marks him as his father's son, not Reagan's heir. In Ward Connerly's courageous battle against reverse discrimination, the Bushes have all been on the other side.

His bungled war of choice on Iraq has left us with 3,400 dead, 25,000 wounded, hundreds of billions deeper in debt and an Army on the point of breaking. Relations with Europe, Russia, and the Arab and Muslim world are worse than they were when he took office.

His clandestine drive to merge Mexico, America and Canada in a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" – a North American Union modeled on the European Union – entails the loss of sovereignty and end of the republic as we know it.

The damage Bush has done to his party is beginning to rival that of Herbert Hoover. If the Clintons were doing this, would conservatives be mute? Time to lock and load.

Hey Brad! I am a conservative, just not a Republican anymore, too bad Bush isn't. You should take the blinders off.
Here's the funny part...As we align ourselves to any group, we take on that groups view and lose our own. So we blindly follow, even when there is evidence available to question that allegiance. Pretty sad we can't think for ourselves anymore.

Answer 1

CONSERVATIVES ARE UNPATRIOTIC is his latest slam -because they don't agree with his immigration bill.
Talking about biting the hand that feeds and adores you........................

Answer 2

In the "good ole days" intelligent knowledgeable people could split hairs about which ideologies (liberal or conservative) had the better policies. Now we are in a situation where everybody that doesn't have their head up their butt is concluding that the neocons have screwed up the country. If Bush was actually a conservative, things wouldn't be that bad. Unfortunately, he's a neoconservative, which means the country is going to hell in a hand basket.

Answer 3

I think he does in part resent his base. I think he honestly believes that his base's support for him should be universal - that he truly believes the mandate garbage. You can see this after the 2004 election (before things went downhill for him) and even in the 2006 elections where he is suddenly teaming up with the Dems on a host of issues. I think he honestly believes a large portion of the American people want what the Dems are shoveling out.

Answer 4

I'm not conservative but he sure has.You're not alone in feeling that and I applaud you for being smart and open minded enough to change course;
You have to be more loyal to idea's and value's than to politicians or elected officials.If they abandon where you stand for it's wrong and betraying yourself if you support them any longer.The people attacking you over this question would maybe prefer an absolute monarchy

Answer 5

In a political sense, I don't think Bush even knows what the word base means.

Answer 6

Bush will LIE to anyone who is stupid enough to believe him.

Answer 7

Get a life, lefty!
ps to "I'm a Conservative"....SURE you are!! Hi there, I'm Michael Moore!