That is your right, of course.
If we expected each incoming president to do what he needs to make everyone in the country happy, then why even have an election?
That wasn't what I was saying. My point was that there aren't enough 'real conservatives', whatever that means, to elect a President. Since most people fall somewhere in the middle of the 'bell curve,' it is logical to presume that most who get elected will fall toward the middle.
The fact is that the President, as with all elected officials, is duty-bound to faithfully represent those who elected him
Seems Bush is doing just that. After all, it wasn't just the ones who call themselves 'real conservatives' who voted for Bush.
And since people fall all along the spectrum from far right to far left, no one is ever going to be happy with everything the President does or says. It simply isn't possible.
For one ideological party to place a candidate in office, only to have him promote the ideologies of both parties or of the other party alone flies in the face of all reason.
I agree. It is erroneous thinking, however, to presume that all members of the party hold the same opinion on every issue.
OK, fair enough. I thought what you were saying is that a Republican president is supposed to serve all interests, including those who didn't vote for him (such as Bush and Democrats). I think a large part of the Republican party would agree completely with the approach to domestic issues that Bush has taken, so he is serving many who voted for him when he goes that way, but I also think that very few of the Republicans who are happy with Bush's domestic policies are actually conservative. I think the Republican party got a lot of disaffected Democrats over the years who are still pretty liberal on domestic issues but just couldn't stomach the anti-Americanism that has come to define the Democrats.