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You weren't around here for the runup to the 2000 election. During late 1999 and right up until election day, the opposition to GWBush`s candidacy on FR was intense. Leading the way outside the GOP were the "Buchannites" and the "libertarians". Not far behind them, but from within the GOP, were the "Keyesters". If you want to talk about hardcore rightwing fanatics, you only have to look at these three extremist candidacies to understand what we Bush supporters were up against. The Keyesters got most of my attention and the flame wars were some of the most famous in the annuals of FR.

Looking at Alan Keyes remarks this time around, its quite obvious that he supports the reelection of the Bush-Cheney ticket. In fact, I believe Pat Buchanan will be voting for PresBush. The "Libertarians" are a differenbt stroy, but only consitute less then 1/2% of all voters. The conservatives are with the President. Stop trying to blow this rightwing opposition to Bush`s reelection in 2004, all out of proportion.

"[W]hile there are the occasional dissenters speaking out from the rightwings anti-Bush contingent, I don't see the same level of serious opposition we Bush supporters encountered back in 1999 and 2000. I haven't experienced the same level of widespread vitriol coming from the rightwings vocal group of malcontents, misfits and militants. OTOH, there does seem to be more inflitrators this time around coming in from the Democrats wacko leftwing.

The fight remains with the Democrats who advance the liberal agenda and their endless attempts to employ pure propaganda to discredit the President, denounce the economic recovery and undermine the war effort. With their crazed rhetoric, the liberal establishment is making every effort to appeal to the paranoids and sickos in our society. Rational folk will reject this effort at every opportunity. Hang on though, its gonna be a bumpy ride on a rough road to victory."

"The fight remains with the Democrats who advance the liberal agenda and their endless attempts to employ pure propaganda to discredit the President, denounce the economic recovery and undermine the war effort. "

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Exactly right. Conservatives need to realize that the real enemy is the Democrats.

And as The Wizard said in an earlier post, conservatives need to turn out to vote for Bush AND Republican candidates for Congress, so Bush can promote his conservative agenda, which is now being stymied in the Senate, because the Republicans don't have a sufficient majority.

"[W]hile there are the occasional dissenters speaking out from the rightwings anti-Bush contingent, I don't see the same level of serious opposition we Bush supporters encountered back in 1999 and 2000. I haven't experienced the same level of widespread vitriol coming from the rightwings vocal group of malcontents, misfits and militants."

This is encouraging, at least.

I haven't experienced the same level of widespread vitriol coming from the rightwings vocal group of malcontents, misfits and militants.

Ha! Looks like you need a course in diplomacy. Any "malcontent, misfit or militant" that reads that statement is going to say, "Fine, you don't need my vote, then". Either we do some things to keep these people happy, people who are law-abiding, tax-paying citizens, BTW, or we ignore them and become a minority party- again. Right now, Rove and Co. are ignoring them, and they will most likely make only empty promises to try to keep them on the farm.

I personally will wear one industrial-sized clothes pin on my nose as I make my vote for W in November, and will then swear off ever voting for anyone from that family ever again. Fool me once...