Posted on 05/06/2006 1:34:58 AM PDT by wotan
WASHINGTON - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.
Six months out, the intensity of opposition to Bush and Congress has risen sharply, along with the percentage of Americans who believe the nation is on the wrong track.
The AP-Ipsos poll also suggests that Democratic voters are far more motivated than Republicans. Elections in the middle of a president’s term traditionally favor the party whose core supporters are the most energized.
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I don't care if the last 42 presidents had an illegal immigration problem. This one is president now and he is a total and utter failure because his plans will only exacerbate it. Reagan made a huge mistake and Bush hasn't learned from it.
Remember, the buck stops at the Oval Office. It's Bush's problem and a lot of it is Bush's fault.
Nice to see that you have so much confidence in America. We survived Clinton, didn't we?
We voted for Bush with the hope (silly though that that notion was) that he would REVERSE what Clinton did, especially those things done by Executive Order. He hasn't.
What the RINOs do best is solidify the damage that the Dems have done. If you reelect RINOs, you are rewarding them. They want the power and the perks and the privileges that come with the office and you want to put them back into office. That's a reward.
80% of Americans want the border secure and illegals deported. Being overrun by illiterate, non-English speaking hordes from corrupt Latin American neighboring countries is about as fundamental an issue as any country can have. The vast majority of citizens don't want our country to become like Mexico.
It isn't "far right," it's patriotism and basic sovereignty. Most Americans don't want their country sold out from under them. And they will vote.
You're forgetting one important distinction...they're nuts, and we're not.
And I'm not kidding. I think parallelism is a mistake. Plurality wins just as surely as majority. We will NEVER have a majority, but we've already got the plurality. And by "we" I mean conservatives, not republicans.
The word is 'forest'.
I just love when the spelling police can't spell either.
Or is it that you just have nothing more to add to the discussion that you signed up for the SP?
Take some meds. Take a drink. Do something to calm yourself down. Your hysteria is not becoming.
I have supported GW all along. Stood behind him in the WOT.
But I have to admitt, I'll be glad to see the end of the Bush Family in national politics.
I am NOT a compassonate Conservative and am bloddy tired of having it rammed down my throat.
If only I knew how to get the rinos out, and replaced with solid conservatives I would be happy. But the reality is that in most of the districts where the rinos come from the alternatives are flaming-gaping socialists. Maybe in Texas and in some other states there are good, viable alternatives, but in many of the "blue states" it is not realistic. It is not an easy problem to solve.
I believe that you and I are in full agreement here. I usually say the overseas WOT, but this time I got lazy and left off the 'overseas'.
I will hold my nose and vote Republican (RINO even) if only to try to protect the military from the cut and run bunch.
After all their sacrifice and with victory ahead, sitting home amounts to spitting in the eye of our hero's. IMHO
Texas even is not that solid anymore. We are ate up with rinos in the state government.
His promises to secure the border were also there for everyone to see. I thought he understood that the border must be secure before any guest worker/amnesty program would work. If he had secured the borders, he would have more support for some sort of guest worker program. He has not secured the border, and has broken promises to hire more Border Patrol, that he said we needed. Now he is trying to push a guest worker/amnesty program down our throats without first having secured the border, and we are not going for it. It's that simple.
That is exactly how I feel.
The Spelling Police want you to turn in your badge. That's your second (at least) spelling error since correcting that other poster.
The word is lever, not leaver.
It's best not to point out spelling errors of others when you aren't perfect yourself.
This may be true, but the capacity to adapt to changing political realities, especially when said adaptation means a favorable move in the right direction, is a virtue. A foolish consistency, on the other hand, is not, and deserves no support.
Time to get those damn NEOCONS out of the White House and put in REAL CONSERVATIVES for a change!!!!
GET THEM OUT!
Excuse me .. when you weight your poll with 11-14% democrats over repubs .. and you include in your poll the same amount of independents (with no tally as to their leanings) - which by the way doesn't compute with voter registration percentages of independents, you are essentially setting the poll up to get the numbers you want - the numbers which fit your agenda - HATE BUSH.
Rasmussen has been the closest to the real numbers - with Bush at 43% - and since the President has made a 5% leap this week - Bush now stands at 48%.
So their premise that the right is abandoning Bush - is based on their FALSE POLLING DATA.
You can't get much more stupid than that .. believing your own skewed polling .. remember .. this is what Carville did in 2002 when he said they were going to win everything and they won nothing and he put a garbage can on his head ..??
I recently came across an article, "Alien Crossings" by anthropologist Glynn Custred, about the illegal invasion across the Texas border, and its impact on ranchers there.
The article was in The American Spectator, October 2000.
Bush was finishing up his career as governor of Texas at the time. No way he hasn't known full well what he is doing. The missing link is, why. I suspect he will never tell us.
Didn't we when we had Reagan?
You've come over from the Dem Party, but you are still encouraging the election of liberal Republicans who are really just Democrats in disguise.
Alito is probably a solid conservative, but time will tell. Roberts, I'm not sure that your assertion will hold over time at all.
Let the Dems impeach Bush. Or try. Do you really think that the GOP will lose enough seats in A] the House where impeachment begins, to get the Bill of Impeachment? or B] in the Senate to get a conviction?
If you do, you're nuts. But in the process, just maybe they will be so busy fighting each other that we, the people, will be left alone. There has been enough law making and tax spending and government overreaching to last us a lifetime. Maybe, just maybe, gridlock will slow the government's rush to spend and regulate us to death.
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