Well, other polls are showing improvement. I refuse to get all upset till I start to see polls in individual races showing changes. As for Bush. Bush has pretty much lived up to what he campaigned on. His viewpoints on immigration legal or other wise were there for everyone to see. As at home. Well the economy is going gangbusters. He is trying to get spending under control(his threats of a veto) he has been pretty consistent on the Court. ON social issues he has pretty much kept his word and made progress. The electorate might be in a nasty mood at times but that is nothing new. Also, 6 years of Bush and we have held the House and Senate. In fact made gains in the Senate that were pretty conservative under his leadership.
No sir, it is not the responsibility of the electorate to "see" that their chief law enforcement officer will consciously decline to enforece the law after he gets their vote. He ran as a Republican, even a Conservative, and we have a right to expect our men to enforce the law no less than obey it. They are not Democrats, after all.
Yes, his positions were there for us to see, but many of us voted for him anyway because the alternative was so much worse.
We voted for him with the hope that he was just pandering for votes and really wouldn't allow an invasion and really would actually use his veto pen.
When W accepted the charge of President, his "personal" support of illegal aliens and their disregard for the law became a moot point; upholding the rule of law is his sworn duty and he best perform that oath to the best of his ability until the laws he doesn't like are amended or repealed.
Otherwise, his calculating the American public is too slack to see what's happening will bite the Republican arse hard, with President Bush providing the teeth.
Well, sort of.
But he had to be dragged back to reality with his Harriet Miers selection.
Ditto with the Dubai/UAE ports thing.
Bush's push for amnesty for illegal immigrants is STRIKE three, and has convinced many Republicans (like me) that GWB is losing his grip.
I previously would have walked the earth barefoot over broken glass to support President Bush.
Now I don't even want to see his face as it reminds me of how wrong he is on this illegal immigrant issue.
I refuse to accept a proposal that would force my kids and grandkids to learn Spanish, not to mention the third world culture transformation that is already overwhelming American society.
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.
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.
His stands on all the issues were there for everyone to see when he campaigned. I feel neither disappointed or betrayed. He's governed pretty much as I thought he would.
As a Presidential candidate he was not nearly as conservative as I would have liked, so it was difficult for me to be as enthused about him as I was about Reagan. And I said as much to many people at the time.
Go back and read up. He campaigned as a fiscal conservative. Read transcipts of his debates with Kerry.
He is a bigger spender than even Lyndon Johnson, and his tax cuts will probably sunset out.
All we have is the War , and minimal support at home. He sucks eggs, IMO.