Conservative outrage and backlash against Bush

[roguevalley]

Go here:

http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2003/national/20031210012531.shtml

These quotes line the article:


QUOTES
"The majority of Republicans, at the urging of the president and GOP congressional leaders, voted for the $7 trillion prescription drug entitlement to become the nation’s new welfare-state party, depriving the Democrat Party of its sole claim as champion of big government."

Donald Devine
Vice chair, American Conservative Union

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"By any principled, conservative standard, Bush has been a disaster in every arena -- domestically, internationally, fiscally, socially."

Jim Urling
Cincinnati lawyer, small government activist

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The Medicare law "will be very troubling to the Republican base. Our voters sent us here to be different. I assume their enthusiasm would wane significantly if we have become what we replaced."

Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.

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"The Republican Party has been the party of fiscal restraint and responsibility since the free-spending days of the New Deal. However, if present spending habits persist, we’re going to have a hard time convincing voters that we can be trusted with the federal purse strings."

Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.

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"In the eyes of many conservatives, today’s GOP simply has abandoned its limited government heritage to buy votes and gain political power in Washington."

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas

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"Over the past half year, conservatives have realized the spending and budget deficits are not solely the result of recession and 9/11. It’s becoming clear that these are permanent problems. Conservatives feel betrayed by President Bush, by the leadership in Congress, pretty much by all elected Republicans. For the most part, there has been surprisingly little leadership. ... The Medicare bill was an abomination."

Brian Reidl
Heritage Foundation

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Excuse me a moment...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Thank you. ;)

[Sliverofhope]

1. Of course, unfortunately

these people have nowhere to turn. Some might to libertarian, and I know at least two GOPers who voted Nader in the last election as a big f-you to the Republican Party for nominating Bush. But if they disapprove of Bush, these will not be democratic defectors. I suppose they could just sit out voting?

[mikehiggins]

2. And this helps us how?

Do you think they are going to sit home and not vote?

Do you think they are going to sit back and let the "liberal left" beat George Bush?

When push comes to shove, they have nowhere to go but to Bush unless we have an alternative who is acceptable to people across the board.

Obviously, you can see who I consider the likeliest candidate to do something like that.

[Kat 333]

4. Did you read the article ?

"The worry for the Bush campaign is not that Republicans will vote for the Democratic nominee next November. It’s that they will stay home.

"Does that matter? It matters if we have as close an election as we had in 2000," said Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation. "If Bush wins substantially, it’s not going to matter."


Soooo evidently the repukes are concerned that "they are going to sit home and not vote"

Understandable concern ... imo

[caledesi]

3. Gee, I thought "big government was a liberal issue" Not!