Winning Strategy - Bush to conservative for America

[LeftHander]

Bush ran on being a middle of the road republican with a down home sensibility that captured too many moderate dems and republicans. What we see now is a completely different person. If he ran making promises on policies he has since advocated he WOULD NEVER HAVE WON!

[wuushew]

1. The lie is working

No one in the media is debunking the absurd notion of "compassionate conservatism".

[whoYaCallinAlib]

2. Sorry to break the news to you, but every politician runs in the

middle for the election and then turns left or right once they have the presidency. It's true.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Yeah but nobody thought Bush would be

such a right wing loon. I mean Ashcroft? A fucking loon. All of them.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

4. That's fair. He went further right than most moderates predicted.

And that, I hope, will come back to bite him in the ass this election.

[MarianJack]

5. 2 Points

1 Bush jr. didn't win (sorry. I'm NOT being critical of you)

2 Something that reinforces what you say is the way the rethuglicans turned off the public with their disaster of a convention in 1992, especially quayle's wife & buchannan's (spelled right?) "holy war":crazy:

Any D over any r in '04!:bounce:

[whoYaCallinAlib]

6. Good points.

I like your "any D or any r in '04" sign-off.

[MarianJack]

9. Thanks!

:hi: I used to think that there were some good republicans somewhere, but the support that our 2 Maine "moderate" republican senators give to president moron is disgusting (especially collins. Snowe did show that she has the occasional backbone, but she still supports bush.

Any D over any r in '04!:bounce:

[stopbush]

7. No, He's Too RADICAL For America

Radical republicans

Red-Ink republicans

Most Americans think of themselves as conservative, as in "are you gay (no)," "do you go to church (yes)," etc. "Conservative" has a genteel connotation to Americans. The conservative label needs to be RIPPED AWAY from this band of repig thugs. They are RADICALS. No question about it.

Call them anything, but don't call them conservative!

[loyalsister]

8. AWESOME

I love Red-ink Republicans especially!!!

You're totally right about the connotations of the word radical, too.

On a Specturm from left to right, conservative IS the middle, and it is where most people want to be. They want to identify themselves as conservative.

Rad.lft liberal.lft con.lft <conservative> con.rt liberal.rt RAD.rt

Noticeif you put it on this scale, Bush is closer to a "liberal" than a "conservative!!"