Bush Not Popular at this Year's Winger Convention

[BurtWorm]

"At last year's CPAC, worship for the president was almost cultlike -- people festooned themselves with T-shirts and buttons bearing his face and bought up George Bush mouse pads, mugs and handbags. The same merchandise was for sale this year, but it wasn't moving as swiftly. By Saturday, Bush baseball caps had been marked down from $15 to $3."

It's worth a daypass at salon.com to read this article. Otherwise, it may only be available to Premium subscribers only.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/01/27/cpac/index.html

The conservatives are outraged -- about Bush

At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, foot soldiers of the right rail against the big-government, free-spending ways of the White House.

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By Michelle Goldberg




Jan. 27, 2004 | CRYSTAL CITY, Va. -- Razor-tongued right-wing darling Michelle Malkin stood before a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday and denounced George Bush's new immigration policy. Her voice oozing contempt, she described Bush as "Clintonian" for claiming to oppose amnesty in his State of the Union speech. She held up an orange sign with Bush's words, "I oppose amnesty," written on it. Then she ripped it up and roared, "What part of amnesty doesn't he understand?"

This year's CPAC, an annual conference that's ground zero of the vast right-wing conspiracy, pulsated with the usual antipathy toward liberals, gays, secular judges, environmentalists and Europeans. Yet many attendees also bristled with a more uneasy anger, one directed at their erstwhile allies in the White House. Conservative activists, especially older ones, felt betrayed and disappointed by Bush's immigration policy, his expansion of the federal government and his promiscuous spending, so much so that some suggested the grass-roots right might stay home on Election Day. There were plenty of passionate Bush fans in attendance, most of them college students, but movement leaders and veterans spoke of them with outright contempt. One right-wing pollster called them "Bushlickers."

This year's CPAC, in fact, was more encouraging for liberals than conservatives. Bush's right-wing base is demanding more concessions than he's made so far, but those concessions are likely to erode whatever moderate support the president has. At one of the most fervently Republican gatherings in the country, it wasn't hard to find people who were planning to vote for third-party candidates from the Constitution or Libertarian parties, and a few even confided in whispers that they might vote for Joe Lieberman or John Edwards if given a chance. The mood was like that of liberals in 2000 who saw Al Gore as nothing more than a lesser evil and yearned to send a futile message through Ralph Nader. While the grass-roots left is more motivated and disciplined than it's ever been, the grass-roots right has turned sullen and uncompromising.

"A lot of people here don't care if Bush wins or not," said Rick Shaftan, a right-wing political consultant and pollster based in New Jersey....

[zbdent]

1. Now, if only they'd stay home

instead of holding their noses and voting for him anyway.

[DEM FAN]

2. Talk About A Media Whore. Michelle Malkin.

Where Did She Come From. :-(

[nostamj]

3. this may not be the correct sewage treatment facility

but you get the idea.........

she is truly among the putrid repuke class of mediacrackwhore

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. "Bushlickers" -- I like it

There were plenty of passionate Bush fans in attendance, most of them college students, but movement leaders and veterans spoke of them with outright contempt. One right-wing pollster called them "Bushlickers."

Well, why not use a pejorative to describe those who want to elevate boosh* to messiah status?

[zbdent]

5. Use it on the female fans of Bush

really confuse the Repukes.

They wouldn't be sure if you were talking about the politics or the "orientation".

[Cat Atomic]

6. I know it's good that they're losing interest in Bush, but you know-

their timing makes them even more sickening than they were before.

They couldn't care less about his lying to get us into a war. But boy, you start talking about letting in more immigrants and they're pissed.

The fact that they're anti-union and pro-corporate on just about everything makes me doubt their motivations in opposing immigration. I expect it has alot more to do with racism than low wages.

[Beetwasher]

7. Best Laugh of the Night!

Thanks! That made my night!