Social Conservatives upset with Bush after SOTU

[ck4829]

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins isn’t the only right-wing leader unhappy with President Bush’s State of the Union speech.

“We're disappointed that he didn't mention cultural issues at all,” said National Review editor Rich Lowry. The Institute for Policy Innovation, a strong supporter of Bush’s plan two years ago to privatize Social Security, now asserts that he “lacked leadership in that he failed to propose any solutions.” Bush “left a lot of conservatives shaking their heads” with the speech, according to Bill Lauderback of the American Conservative Union. A spokesperson for Gary Bauer’s American Values lamented that the president “lost a golden opportunity to set the stage” by emphasizing right-wing issues.

Rick Scarborough, a key organizer of politically-charged “Patriot Pastors,” claimed Bush was beholden to the Religious Right to take up their causes:

“While the president spoke, I couldn’t help but groan inwardly as I reflected on the squandered opportunities of the past six years of a "conservative" majority. As he concluded his remarks with “God Bless,” it dawned on me that the speech didn’t contain even a passing reference to the issues that sent millions of Christians to the polls in 2000, 2002 and 2004 - making Bush a two-term president and giving his party a majority in Congress for six years - the first time in more than half-a-century that Republicans controlled the presidency and both Houses of Congress. Whatever else they voted for….Values Voters did not turn out in past elections so their concerns could be ignored the day after the election. Is it any wonder that so many us stayed home last November?”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/01/bush_speech_fra.html

:rofl:

[salin]

1. oops, there goes another couple of percentage points in jrs poll numbers

Hey Mr Dobson and Perkins, can't believe you are now just picking up that jr is, well, less than credible. But please do keep threatening major GOP office holders and candidates to push theocracy in their speeches - we rather like the results per the further weakening of the GOP party.

[liberaldemocrat7]

20. Mr. Dobson and Mr. Perkins, Focus on your own families

and end your attempt to force your fake 11th century religious principles on those who not believe in them. Also your concern with people's quality of life ends at birth.

"We will not allow the Rapeublican religious nuts to Defetus"

[notadmblnd]

2. The koolaid seems to be wearing of of these people too?

The only Thing bush ever cared about was getting his hands in your collection plates. Chosen by god to lead, my ass. Or maybe the fundie nuts are just not living up to gods expectations and this is their punishment for being evil sinners?

[Kikosexy2]

33. The False Prophet...

came before his people and collected false profits...You see, Christ did return...in the form of the Anti-Christ (Bush)...

[LaurenG]

3. I think the only people left who still back him are the

fearful types. Those who have lost all faith in the goodness of human beings and still believe you have to blow others up in order to gain peace. Imagine how it must feel to "live" in their heads!

[Lerkfish]

10. naw, I think he's down to the white supremacists, frankly.

I think they are the only ones still fervently in love with the guy. They LOVE what he didn't do in New Orleans.

[ClintonTyree]

40. I don''t think they're even behind him....

a Black woman as SecDef? :wow: Supporting Israel in everything they do? :wow: Infringing on their civil liberties? :wow:

About the only thing they might support them on is illegal immigration but then Bush wants the "guest worker program" so he's even shit out of luck there. There's a bunch of totally confused white supremacists in our country right now. They don't know who to throw their bat-shit-crazy support behind. :silly:

[etherealtruth]

13. ...and that 1-2%

... that has profited wildly from the Chimp's policies.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Do they really think Bush is christian?

They must be more gullible than they appear.

[The Wizard]

29. They think the word gullible

isn't in the dictionary. Ask them and they'll look it up just to prove it.

[ClintonTyree]

42. He said he was....

and he even went through the ridiculous "born again" bullshit. That's usually all the convincing they need. Hey, if they'll believe a 2000 year old bronze age fairy tale about arks, virgin births, resurrection and the like, they'll believe anything. :shrug:

[rock]

5. Suckers

[Ganja Ninja]

6. There just wasn't enough gay bashing in the SOTU to ...

suit their tastes.

[Kindigger]

7. As they say on That '70s Show

BURN!

[MADem]

8. Gee, think they are starting to realize that they've jumped the shark? NT

[mitchleary]

9. And

you fundies thought he was serious when he told you he would respect you in the morning and call you. He got re-(s)elected, he doesn't need you anymore. :rofl:

[marmar]

11. The pit bulls have turned on their master.....

:nopity:

[Philosoraptor]

12. Used & tossed aside like some cheap plaything, oh the pain, the pain.

[magellan]

14. They STILL don't get that they were USED

...so the neocons could expand presidential powers far beyond the limits of the Constitution, and that the neocons are about as Christian as Saddam was Muslim. What utter FOOLS.

I hope they enjoy the death of Empire, because that's where we're all headed now thanks to them.

[underpants]

16. and NO ONE SUPPORTS THEM

They are political live wire no one their right mind would get near anything that they support.

[rocktivity]

15. This is the social conservatives' Freddy Kruger moment

The climax of the first Nightmare On Elm Street movie is when the heroine defeats the monster Freddy Kruger by telling him he has no power over her because she realizes that he's a figment of her imagination. What really happened, Mr. Scarborough, is that last November, millions of Christians went to the polls AND VOTED OUT you rightwing Christo-fascists as surely as they did the Republican party!

:headbang:
rocknation

[JohnnyLib2]

17. Opening a rift in the unholy alliance of GWB and the Christian Right

was perhaps the biggest "win" in 2006. Undoing that Roviavellian strategy can really help change the course of things IMO.

[City Lights]

18. Chumps.

The chimp cares not one iota about you or the issues that matter to you. He cares only about himself, his legacy and his bank account.

:nopity:

[PlanetBev]

35. You got it, Surrender

They've been chumped by the Chimp.

Cry me a river...

[BeyondThePale]

19. As the Sex Pistols said, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

My response to the Patriot Pastors is something along the line of, "Bwah, ha ha"

[OnionPatch]

21. "Social issues"?

You mean they're mad cause he never mentioned all the uninsured or how the minimum wage is so low or like how they're sending all our jobs overseas, or how the rebuilding in NO is so pathetically behind........oh, wait.......Duh!!.....I forgot, the only social issues they're interested in are the ones having to do with our sex lives.

[lisby]

31. So very frackin' true

They could care less about anything except dictating how the sex act transpires for everyone else, and who can who enough to form a family unit. It's all about control and/or denial of their own secret desires.

We need a "I spit on them" smilie.

Lisby

[Alamom]

22. Listen closely. THE PREZ IS NOT A CHRISTIAN, nor is he a

religious person.


HE USED YOU!!!!!!!!

[InvisibleTouch]

25. He's as Christian as they are.

Which tells you something right there. Both sides were trying to use each other.

[stubtoe]

32. We have a winner!

That is so right on. The religious right got addicted to being close to power. The Republicans got addicted to an easily manipulated voting bloc. Now they've all hit bottom.

edited for clarification

[ClintonTyree]

43. But a new rising star is on the horizon....

Brownshirt, I mean Brownback. ;) HE'S the one who will REALLY listen to them and champion their agenda. REALLY! :rofl:

There's always another one in the wings, another one that they can pin their hopes on because the rapture IS just around the corner, you know? :spray:

[hippiechick]

23. Neither Bush (41 and 43) nor Cheney give a rat's ass about

'social issues'.

Poppy was pro-choice until he ran for the nomination against Reagan in 79/80.

They only tell people what they want to hear to get their grubby hands on the purse strings and power levers. They truly do not believe in anything except advancing their own scurrilous agendas.

Duh?? :freak:

[MidwestTransplant]

24. Hey Putz. "Value Voters" didn't stay home, the rest of the country just came to its senses.

[Marie26]

26. Have they figured out they've been used yet? nt

[porphyrian]

27. Good. Fuck them. They have no right to force everyone to flagellate with them.

If they want to live in fear of nipples and masturbation, fine. They've crossed the line when they're forcing their beliefs on us all, though.

[yellowcanine]

28. Bitch bitch bitch. Whine, whine, whine. Suck it up fundies. After all, God is in charge, right?

Or is that just talk on your part?

[Javaman]

30. personally, I honestly don't believe that these right wing fundies hold that much power...

it took two stolen elections to get moron* in, if the fundies really did wield that much power, moron* his supreme court butt buddies wouldn't have had to throw the first election and the dire need for dibol to fix it both in the first and second elections wouldn't have been necessary.

it's money that talks.

[Swamp Rat]

34. "Almighty King Bushler, why have you forsaken us?"

[ClintonTyree]

44. Love those pics, Swampy...

crazy crap like that always amuses me. ;)

[chrisau214]

48. It Scares the Living Shit Out of Me (nt)

[Avalux]

36. Memo to Value Voters: You've been punked!

Think about it for a few minutes, let it sink in, then get angry. You were used and manipulated for years (way back to Bush's Texas days) by Rove and Co. just to get your vote.

You didn't really think Bush gave a damn about your precious social issues, did you?? :rofl:

[racaulk]

37. Dumbasses!

You're been used by the Republican party! They used you to keep themselves in power while promising to care about your issues. Don't you find it odd at all that the issue of gay marriage is only brought up by Republican lawmakers every two years? When will you get it?!?!?!?!

[JPettus]

38. What? They didn't get the memo?

Bush is a lame duck. He can't be re-elected and with a Democratic Congress he can't do what he wants anymore.

The SOTU was just Jr's way of flipping the bird to the people that didn't come out to vote for him again this past election.

[newyawker99]

50. Hi JPettus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ClintonTyree]

39. The religiously insane "values voters"....

were taken for a ride, again, by the Republic Party. When are these nut-jobs going to realize that the Republics don't give a crap about them? They merely use them as a tried and true voting bloc, throwing them a scrap of red meat every few years to give the appearance that they're listening to them, and insist that they themselves share their twisted theocratic dreams.

You lie down with dogs and you get fleas. You'd think god would give them a hint that they're being used and discarded like an old rubber by the Republics.

Oh well, it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of cretins.

[progressivebydesign]

41. "Patriot Pastors"?? I think I might vomit...

:puke: Why exactly are these people getting IRS breaks?

[Morgana LaFey]

45. They STAYED HOME on Election Day????? What proof of that

is there?

Whatever else they voted for….Values Voters did not turn out in past elections so their concerns could be ignored the day after the election. Is it any wonder that so many us stayed home last November?”

Does ANYone recall any indication whatsoever that Republicans stayed home in droves in November??

[TygrBright]

46. uh.... waitaminnit here... Remember, blivet has a DIRECT line...

...to God, who chats with him personally EVERY DAY.

So....

If blivet didn't mention dickshit about The Gay Menace and The Babykilling Horror and the Dangers of Self-Abuse....

That must mean...

THAT GOD DOESN'T CARE DICKSHIT ABOUT THAT STUFF!!!

Now we know!

Direct from blivet, the One True Prophet!

Take that, fundeenutbags!

helpfully,
Bright

[jazzjunkysue]

47. And still they don't get it that Imperialism isn't conservative! Hello!

I told my GOP dad in 2004 that he had no conservative to vote for. There's never been anything conservative about foreign wars, especially needless ones.

This might, well, it's only a slim chance, that the GOP might wake up and get it that this family regime is not conservative at all. Never has been.

Until we bring the troops home, conservatism can't even get a toe-hold.

The sheep get dumber.

[knight_of_the_star]

49. Oh now they wake up

Wake up you wannabe witch hunters: YOU'VE BEEN USED!