[EagleUSA]

Stop lying and start doing what you promise to do, then you'll win.
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At the end of the day, that was the undoing of the Repubs. Bush made some serious campaign pledges, which if he had performed on, would have tipped the scales away from the Iraq War and still won back the Congress.

Those were notably: Social Security reform, illegal immigration solution, reduced size of government, and squelching radical government spending. He failed MISERABLY on all these counts. IMHO, the attitude of the voter would have been vastly different if he had delivered AS PROMISED.

He didn't and we lost.

[zarf]

Stop lying and start doing what you promise to do, then you'll win.

$$$$$ talks. If it takes a lie to take the cash, the lying will continue.

[Majic]

"Bush made some serious campaign pledges, which if he had performed on, would have tipped the scales away from the Iraq War and still won back the Congress."

Perhaps, but I can't take up the mantra that "It's all Bush's fault!"

The Republicans have had six years to implement a true Republican agenda -- one which, by the way, as a Libertarian, I'd been holding my breath for.

And what do we get? A bunch of spineless RINOs pushing Democrat ideology.

Apparently the people of this great nation have grown weary of the empty promises and would rather have real Democrats running the country than phony Republicans.

God knows they must be desperate if they're voting Democrat. :^P

[MaineVoter2002]

So true!

http://www.cafenetamerica.com

[tcrlaf]

Social Security reform:
Are you from THIS PLANET?
On Earth, Bush and the Republicans got HAMMERED at every single mention of Social Security reform...

Illegal immigration solution:
Look at the election Demographics. Our "Border" people cost us a TON of Hispanic Votes Nationwide, and gave the Dems a whole new base of Illegal Voters....

[Checkers]

Congress never lifted a finger on Social Security.

[Ricebug]

"No new taxes!" Some time the son forgets the sins of the his old man? Ricebug

[El Gato]

Those were notably: Social Security reform, illegal immigration solution, reduced size of government, and squelching radical government spending. He failed MISERABLY on all these counts. IMHO, the attitude of the voter would have been vastly different if he had delivered AS PROMISED.

He didn't and we lost

While I agree that those things were promised and not delivered, I would point out that the President can't do those things by himself, the Congress must do the work. The Republican Congress, particularly the Senate, failed miserably to do so.

In no small part because so many of them think *they* should be President. Ignoring the fact that no Senator has been elected President since John F. Kennedy in 1960.. and I don't know how long it had been before then. I'm old, but not that old. (Johnson had been a Senator, but was elected after inheriting the Presidency after Kennedy was killed. He beat a serving Senator, Barry Goldwater, Similarly Harry Truman had been a Senator before being tapped as FDR's VP in '44)