What conservatives? The last conservative President I saw was Ronald Reagan. The last Congressmen were Bob Barr and Newt Gingrich. The last conservative Senator I saw was a Democrat-Zell Miller.
I voted for George Bush both in 2000 and 2004. I believed that both elections were close enough that just a few votes might turn the tide. I believe enough like minded people felt the same way to squeak him through.
I'm not disappointed in the results. The way he's handled the job is about what I expected before I voted in 2000 and 2004. I didn't vote for the lesser evil, I voted against Al Gore and John Kerry. If I had the choice tomorrow of casting a vote again in either election, I'd vote for Bush again.
I'm not surprised by Bush nor dismayed by Bush. Listening to his speeches. looking at his background, at the people who reared him, and his political record-what we've gotten is about what I expected.
He's not a conservative? I never thought for one instance that he was. I'm absolutely dumbfounded that there are people running around all indignant that he's not acting as a conservative should. How anyone anywhere who had watched TV, listened to radio, or broke down and read something ever thought the man (or the Republicans in Congress) was a conservative is beyond me.
All I can say about those people is an education in critical thinking might just take the blinders off.
If you are conservative, I certainly don't see how you can vote for 'neo-conservatives.' They might be neo but a cursory study of American conservatism will shortly show they are certainly not conservatives.
I can understand saying,"I'm a Republican and will support the Republican Party." But saying,"I'm a conservative and will therefore support the conservatives in the Republican Party," makes no sense. The few conservatives left in the Republican Party have been marginalized by the party power brokers.
If you want to vote for conservatives, you're either going to have to reform the Republican Party from the ground up or build a conservative party. You don't have one in the Republicans and haven't for quite some time.
The Republican Party's platform will eventuall be catastrophic for this nation. So will the Democratic Party's platform. The only difference between the two parties is the Republicans' platform will take two or three decades longer to reach the cataclysm. Maybe. It seems that the power brokers in the Republican Party are striving for parity in catastrophe with the Democrats.
In the past 34 years I've been able to justify voting for a Republican three times...in order to ensure an absolutely awful Democrat didn't get the post. The way it looks as if the Republican Party is going, I doubt I'll be able to make that justification in the next 34 years.
There's a Democrat running for Congress in South Carolina, I didn't catch his name on the radio. He's campaigning to balance the federal budget, steer more federal money into research into alternative fuels, and more federal money to protect our borders. If more Democrats start campaigns such as his, AND then follow through on the campaign rhetoric-the Republican Party is going to get its brains beaten out.
