[JohnGalt]

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[finnman69]

Lee Reockwell is an a-hole.

[stuartcr]

When it comes to getting elected, you just can't please everybody, all the time....but you say what you have to, to get the most votes/money.

[JohnGalt]

Worth a read...

[r9etb]

Geeze -- I really tried, but I couldn't even force myself to read this crap.

[FormerLib]

I hope W. is smart enough to push for the Marriage Amendment and doesn't alienate his base.

Perhaps he needs to be reminded of what happend to Dad when he alienated the pro-lifers and the 2nd Amendment-supporters?

Not taking the strongest possible stand against homosexual marriage will finish W.

[steve-b]

What a steaming pile.

The simple fact is that most people simply don't want the government to get itself entangled in these matters. Joe Sixpack may not hold to an explicitly libertarian ideology, but out of simple common sense he understands that the government just doesn't have time to pander to Elmer Gantry while there is a mob of savages out there bent on the destruction of Western Civilization.

[dts32041]

Check the track record of the correct pubis president.

CFR which was going to be made unconstitutional by th SS Court.

NEA Funding, made the swimmer partially happy.

Wanting to legalize the illegals.

Hasn't shut the borders.

Signing the biggest welfare entitlement, since the great society.

Trying to cut the combat pay of soldiers.

Not coming out in favor of defense of marriage.

Yeah he signed the ban on partial birth abortions and gave us some of our money back.

Trying to think of something he really stands for, I got it T-ball at the white house.

[bobjam]

Blah blah blah....this author misses the big picture: the coming Evangelical Exodus from American politics. Right now, evanglicals are perfectly comfortable being part of society. But there will be a day when they will decide they can no longer be part of society. Right now they care who wins elections, but soon they may decide that being part of the system is not worth their time and money.

[sinkspur]

You need to tell your boys over at LoserRockwell that Presidents don't get to vote on Constitutional Amendments.

CONGRESS passes them and sends them directly to the states.

Also, since when does a Losertarian want a Constitutional Amendment? This is just the losers over at LoserRockwell kicking up dust.

[massadvj]

Bush is afraid of the neocons. They can turn on him, and ruin him, in a New York Minute. But he does not fear the evangelicals. They have nowhere else to go.

You can replace the word "evangelicals" with "constitutionalists" and still be right on the money.

[elfman2]

This is the second time I’ve seen you post from writers on obscure web sites that can’t reason their way out of a paper bag.

The title is Bush's “Betrayal” of Evangelicals, but the only support is that he “owns” them for agreeing with him on the war so if he doesn’t push through the rest of their social agenda it’s a betrayal. The article’s an unfocused wandering piece of garbage from an unfocused fuzzy thinker.

[Mamzelle]

At the National Review, the premier Republican pundit-hole, there are NO evangelicals who are featured writers.

Evangelicals make up around half of Republicans.

But no writers at NR represent them.

Not our kind, dear. Bad dentistry, not enough Ivy ed.

[MindBender26]

Typical Lew Rockewll "Waaaaaah!"

Unfortunately too many conservatives are spoiled children who think what they care about is all that counts.

[1rudeboy]

blah blah Rove blah blah blah neocon blah blah blah Rove

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Except in the eyes of a few blind Bush-moonies, he's betrayed everybody else already.

[em2vn]

I agree that the White House will use the evangilicals like an old shoe and then forget them. As an evangilical I have seen it happen too many times.
That doesn't change the fact that Lew is a nut waiting for a tree to sprout.
I will vote for President Bush in the next election by default.That doesn't mean I am satisfied with his performance. He is going to be the least poor of the choices available.

[Gargantua]

I believe this author underesitmates the depth of W's convictions.

I believe that President Bush is going to stand firm on these issues despite the potential for political fallout, and he will firm-up his voter base (and grow it) for having done so despite the "sky-is-falling" predictions of perennial pessimists like Rockwell.

As concerns the Marriage issue, if the queer vote had any real clout in America, Gore would have won last time around.

;-/

[d-back]

Excellent post, JohnGalt. Note the knee-jerk criticisms from Bushbots, who fail to see what the Neocon influence hath wrought on this Administration.

And half of the critics don't even know what a Neocon is. That's why God invented Google, folks: Spend an hour reading and learn why David Frum, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, and the "Girly Men" at National Review (in Ann Coulter's wonderful phrase) are betraying conservative principles. And George W. Bush, too.

[KantianBurke]

What about the filibustered federal judges? What about the Marriage Amendment? Will the neocons, in gratitude for the indispensable support of the evangelicals for the war, return the favor and support the conservative moral agenda? Don’t hold your breath.

[biblewonk]

snip--He is aghast. Virtually every neocon supporter of the war just happens to be discovering, quite suddenly, that traditional marriage, so central to Bush’s core evangelical constituency, is a threat to Republican victory in 2004.

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