I heard that Bush is not really a true conservative republican but really a Evangelical plant whose mission is to destory USA and Bring Jesus back sooner by Staring the waietd and wished for third world war that will signal the return of the svior they all want. THE RAPTURE is more inportant than oil or the environment or governments etc. Who cares about grandchildren when the world is redy to end anyway.&#92;Bush does not seem to be a conservative. he spend money like a drunken sailor and lest disators get worse and worse. He does nothing about any problems.bush has not got any enrgy policy to conserve( so is he conservative)\n\nHe seems to want to suspend basic rights and change constitution( is that conservative?)\n\nMaybe he is just there to screw up America so the big war can get going and he can go to Jesus with all the other right wing luntic Christian frings. He is sure doing a good job. it explains a lot\nthe democrats and republican need to join together to stop him and him.
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A lot of policy towards the mideast is due to Christian beliefs in the second coming.
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Limbaugh is a school drop-/flunk-out, an idiot, and a partisan hack. He does not care about America. In fact, he is ignorant of American history and government, and detests the ideas of America’s Founding Fathers.  Like all modern religious and political conservatives, he accepts no responsibility for mistakes. \n\nBy now it is completely clear that invading Iraq was illegal, immoral, stupid, and doomed to failure. Yet Bush and all of his most ardent supporters do not seem to loose any sleep over the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who have died as a result of their actions. They should be praying that there is no God, because if there is, they are in a world of trouble.\n\n---------------------------\nAlex B. Ph.D. -\n\nSo did the Republicans and the media. Have you ever been in DC? It is as small socially as it is geographically. There are no secrets. Everyone knows everyone's business. \n\nAnd, they are all in it together. It is their club and they do not give a sh!t about the rest of us - or the country. Their two primary concerns are: 1) personal wealth and power, and 2) party power and wealth.\n\n------------------------------------\ntok h -\n\nFox News is a conservative PR firm. The White House refers to it as 'White House West'. Hannity flew on Air Force One with Bush during the last campaign. By your logic, why shouldn't Yahoo ban all references to them as well?
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This is a fair question to ask. If Bush bases his personal integrity around his religious beliefs, then acting in a duplicitous way casts both him and his beliefs in a very negative light. This then becomes a political issue.\n\nBut, does anyone seriously believe Bush?
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It is much more a reflection on our society than an objective criticism of his policies.\n\nMany people criticize him for the strength of his Christian values, many of which he holds to be true and right in all cases, regardless of any mitigating factors.  This absolutism is as frustrating to the open-minded intellectual types of this nation as the relativism of the Clinton era was to the more conservative sectors of the population.\n\nBecause of his strongly-held convictions, the liberal-minded of the American populace distrusts him and portrays him as a tyrranical individual, just as the previous President was painted by the conservatives as spineless because of his seeming lack of absolute convictions.\n\nAll the debate that rages over the current President has less to do with actual policy dispute and more with the underlying old political question:\n-       Is a politician supposed to vote how he or she believes or how the majority of their constituency would vote?\n\nBecause much of the criticism about President Bush is due to his closely-held beliefs, our grandparents (who often held the same beliefs just as strongly, or maybe even more so) would be pleased with him - they tended to respect a politician who did what he or she believed was right more so than one who voted how the "folks back home" would like.  After all, didn't our grandparents coin the word "pandering" to describe this?
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I wonder how many Extreme Conservative Republicans, the ones who said that God put Bush and the Republican party in their respective offices, will now be saying that it is Satan who is putting the Democrats in theirs?
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No.  He's lost the support of fiscal conservatives with his spendthrift ways, Christian conservatives have soured on him, and others are turned off by the Iraq War.  Frankly, I don't believe it when I hear he has an approval rating around 40%.  I think it's really more like 10%.
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Bush's form of conservatism is known as "compassionate conservatism." When he was first elected, the general platform was to be traditional in social issues, and generous in fiscal issues. Tax cuts and social spending are the marks of compassionate conservatism. 9/11 changed all that.  With the idea of terrorism in everybody's mind, especially the idealist Bush's mind, security and defense became priorities. In addition, with his ear turned to Karl Rove, Bush was controlled by the whims of the "neoconservatives," a block of politicians, not even necessarily Republican who believed in the democratization of the Middle East.  Whether inspired by the idea of fully free market oil, or just plain crazy idealism, they considered Israel blameless and wished the remainder of the Middle East was as American.\nIt was their idea to use terrorism as an excuse to invade Iraq.  \n\nWith the want for a large defense budget and the want to be "compassionate," spending is pretty out of control.\n\nAlso consider, whenever a party controls the two legislative bodies, they will try to preserve it, and to do that, compromises must be made.  Everyone needs to be happy. Democrats are helpless to stop them. If they take back both bodies in November, expect Bush to start exercising his power of veto often.
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Amen.\nIf you are a republican and don't want this war, then you're probably not a conservative republican.
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gosh, you other answerers misunderstand Bush completely.  He's trying to help the USA by killing off all those mideast types and taking their oil for nothing.  He's absolutely sure he is doing God's work.  But I really don't see how MURDERing people is doing God's work, do you?
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They are selling the world out from under us.  The way things are going now, in 20 years, there will be no such thing as private ownership in this country; everything will be owned by major corporations.\n\nWhen will you fundamentalists figure out that Bush isn't a REAL christian?  No christian would look upon violence so favorably.
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The people at Halliburton need American soldiers on the ground to protect the oil wells.\n\nWe have to put up with this because the crazy christians who voted for President Bush are more concerned about preventing abortions and gay marriage than the lives of American soldiers.\n\nRepublican voters are willing to pay a lot.
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I agree with many of your points that you bring up, but then again...here is a good reason why people might be undicided....\n\nDemocrats and Rebulicans are very close on the issues.....many of them are very hard to tell apart. I know that the republican party claims to be conservative, but I haven't seen anything conservative in the Bush administration. National Defense is not a conservative or a liberal issue in my eyes...It's an American issue. But unfortunately many Democrats want to cut and run from Iraq, causing even more problems in the middle east. \n\nWell, I did end up voting for almost all the republicans on the ballot this year. I voted for one Democrat and one Libertarian.\n\nI need a new party....If the Fair Tax orginization would start a new party....well, I would be there.\n\nI guess what I am trying to say is, both of the major parties are money and power hungry...... Take away their tax power on the public and America will grow so fast.....It would be unbelievable.\n\nJust one honest guys opinion....\n\nTravis Hill\nugadawg30@yahoo.com
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I've been thinking about this for quite awhile now in an attempt to try to understand the answer to your exact question.\n\nI used to think that Republicans who support Bush were just haters who were obviously miserable unhappy ppl that wanted to be angry and blame everybody else for what flaws they saw in their lives; BUT, I have come to realize this is incorrect.\n\nThe answer lies in the fundamental way of thinking. I will explain: take for example, homosexuality. The rightwing take the fact that the Bible states homosexuality is a sin to mean that it should not be allowed in our society. They see things in flat black and white; based purely on what THEY have decided is right and wrong. With this true conviction that they are right, they feel they have the authority, as the majority, to impose their beliefs on society, ignoring the rights of the minority.\n\nThe liberal pt of view, stems from society as a whole and the rights of the individual even when in the minority. Liberals, while many also considering homosexuality a sin in the Bible, do not feel it is their place to dictate to another person how he/she should live their life as long as it is within the confinements of the law. So, you see, the liberal-minded seem to look beyond themselves and what THEY believe is right or wrong. \n\nDon't mean to make this a gay posting.. that was just an example to try to explain my answer to your question.
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Bush is most definately not the antichrist.  I love the man and voted for him, but let's face it.  He does not have the intellect described in the Bible that the antichrist is supposed to have.  Angel?  I wouldn't go that far.  I will say he is doing the best he can with the really raunchy hand he has been dealt.
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Dude, if you think Bush has the smarts to A. operate the internet and B. operate a keyboard/computer in the first place, much less C. read all those big words up there, you're being WAY too generous to his intelligence in the first place.\n\nThe truth is, he's a halfwit driven by religious superiority and consumerist greed. In other words, the worst possible person to be running our country. It wouldn't be so bad if he were INTELLIGENT and a religious fanatic and driven by consumerist greed, but... I've had pet fish that had more brains than that man.\n\nAnd imagine, he's what the American people chose. \n\nSays a LOT about our fool selves, doesn't it? \n\nDon't look at me, I was too young to vote for/against him. I'd've written in Mickey Mouse just to keep him from being elected. I know better than to put a retard in a position of extreme power.
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You underestimate the Christian Right.  They will rather modify the prayer and explain why Bush is right than impeach him.  Remember they believe he's the  President because God made him so.
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As a Republican, when I voted for Bush in the first term, I thought that I was electing a small limited government Republican. Instead, I elected a religious Republican. The 04 election was more about safety and security for me, so I still voted Bush as it seemed that Kerry didn't really offer anything different.\n\nIf I could go back, I would change my vote to a no vote, as I believe that Bush is not the president that he proclaimed to be, and that Kerry didn't and doesn't stand for my values. To be truthful, most canidates are either too far left or right for my taste.\n\nTo answer your question, some conservative / libertarian Republicans still exist, but it seems to me that our party has been hijacked by religious factions. They seem to be on this holy crusade to stamp out all opposition to anything that they deem is wrong or sinful. Since the Republicans control almost all the branches of government at this time, I believe it is time to restore balance. So, I will probably vote the straight democratic ticket in 06 to see if the balance of power will be changed.