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We have know GWB's position on this matter ever since we nominated him as our candidate 7 years ago. Now we want him to turn 180 degrees when it finally becomes an issue.

I didn't know about this speech until about six months ago. Bush learned that he can say and do anything because of our fear of the likes of Kerry or Gore. What choice did I have at the polls between an avowed socialist and a compassionate conservative (socialist-lite)?

I would hope that Bush would turn around on this issue. It would show, for the first time in his presidency, that he even recognizes that there is an American electorate out there that voted him in to uphold the Constitution - not interpret it to mean what he wants.

I bet your thoughts are now turning to the War on Terror, right? You are going to say "Look, he's fighting the war on terror." Yes. We are. But, if that's all Bush carries to his legacy that legacy will be even thinner than his father's. His father tried to turn to domestic issues late in his first term. This Bush hasn't considered domestic issues yet.

"Wait" you say, "he's lowered taxes, tried to get SS privatized, created the greatest social medicine program in the history of the U.S., spent more money on schools than any president in history and created a panel to study energy."

Great. Half of his initiatives are socialist in nature and the conservative initiatives are either not permanent (tax reduction) or haven't come to pass.

What kind of leader is he? He has always been weak. Don't bother to point to Reagan and how he had to battle Congress all the time. Bush is president during a republican controlled Congress and he still can't get anything done. Reagan led the democrats to where he wanted them. Bush has been schizophrenic from the start. He's conservative on some issue but liberal on most domestic ones. The republican Congress has to fight him one day and try to defend him the next. Even they have gotten turned around by his schizophrenia so that the don't even know which way to go.

Bush has been a failure as a conservative choice for president. He used up all of his political capital on Iraq and didn't save any for the domestic conservative issues.

We are in this position because Bush can't see that America should always come first. He is, in some ways, like Jimmy Carter who was always worried about human rights around the world except with Bush he's more worried about the future of foreign economies than he is about America's. Bush takes for granted that building a debt of 8 trillion dollars will somehow take care of itself. That's not the measure of leadership. My children will be taxed on that debt for their entire lives. Do Bush, the rich democrats or the country-club republicans even care about that? Hell no. Their lives are so insulated from this problem that they don't even think it exists.

I'm a Reagan Republican, not a Heston Republican.
During Reagan's first campaign, he asked us voters "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?" Back then the answer was DEFINITLY NO! Since then whenever I get to a major political crossroads where I can voice my opinion, I think of the state of the status quo, and am always faced with this same question. Since Reagan originally asked that question, my answer has always been yes, not because each president since Reagan has taken care of us, but because Reagan inspired me to stand up on my own feet and make a better life for myself by not depending on our government to care for us. Today my answer to Reagan's question is once again Yes. Do we have 12 million illegal aliens living among us, making a living, raising their families and for some breaking our laws (not including immigration laws of course)? Yes. Would we be better off if they all left peacefully? Maybe, maybe not. Would we be better off if it took a bloody civil war to move them back out of our country? No, only a Heston Republican would want that kind of blood on their hands, until their hands are red and they realize what they have done.
We have already absorbed most of the problems created by these 12 million and are still a great country that is now face with an opportunity to turn this into a huge moral, religious and ecconomic plus.