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There has been a lot of good done. More than we could have expected from a Dim.

Still, the growth of government, the PATRIOT Act, caving in to the liberals by co-opting their agenda items... I expected better from a "conservative".

Maybe that's where I differ from a lot of people here. I never thought GWB was a "conservative", at least as defined on FR. I thought he was a "moderate", so I'm not all that surprised, I'm just happy about the stuff on the "conservative" list that has gotten done.

I'm with you. I like the way you've expressed yourself.

I'm neither a Bushbot who will not tolerate any dissent (we have a few of those). Nor, am I unaware of the only electable alternative which WOULD be much worse and is quite relevant.

I think I expected a bit more rightist action from W domestically but given the magnitude of the sudden cataclysm dumped in his lap, I'm willing to rationalize the domestic shortcomings in leiu of his foreign policy and warmaking efforts...for now.

The honour and dignity restoration is also something not to be dismissed lightly.

The problem many FReepers including my self had is simply this:

Anyone who say 80% shares our world view and cultural values cannot get elected today in America. The reasons for that are myriad and will have to be attacked for generations and we may (in fact probably) fail.

W's biggest failure in my view is his lack of action on illegal immigration. He obviously fears the Hispanic Gorilla in the Closet and thinks he can tame it. I'm very skpetical. Were they all Cubans or perhaps South American professionals, it would be easy but these are purely economic refugees and the numbers are staggering and the institutional trending for them to go into urban clusters and remain Democrat is already well noted. He seems to brim with confidence which is good but I think he is wrong on this one....quite wrong actually.

I give him an A on foreign policy (aside from the African AIDs nuttiness which is great PR but will be a huge waste)

I'd give him a C+/B- on domestic simply in comparison to the Dems who would naturally recieve Fs.

He deseves nods for his judiciary attempts.