Is Bush a Conservative? Article from oxymoron Intellectual Conservative

[RobertSeattle]

To twist a phrase, with enemies like these, who needs friends...

Is Bush a Conservative?
by Tom DeWeese
09 February 2004
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3116.html

"The White House is so seriously out of tune with its political base one wonders how President Bush thinks he will be re-elected.

The great problem affecting Americans these days is a mixture of apathy and anger over the growing realization that nothing they say or do matters. It is a growing sense of hopelessness as government spirals out of control and beyond their reach.

What they see is a White House (1) that wants to loan $1.2 billion to the United Nations to renovate its headquarters in New York, (2) that signed agreements with India to accelerate the export of jobs, (3) that has proposed that Mexicans, here illegally, who take jobs from Americans, be granted a status that will lead to amnesty, (4) that has signed off on a profligate Medicare prescription drug plan that balloons this massive social program, (5) that offered a budget so packed with pork it promises an ever-growing deficit, and (6) that thinks it is the federal government’s job to encourage marriage."

[judge_smales]

1. He's really not.

Not sure why he claimed to be.

Great article too.

[RobertSeattle]

2. Yep - Bush is an Arrogant, Ignorant Radical

Many true conservatives are realizing that a divided government (DEM Pres and GOP Congress - or vice versi) is actually best overall for the country. Heck, if you are a libertarian, you should vote for a DEM since the 90's prove that a divided government causes a smaller government.

[priller]

3. This article has a faulty assumption

The author assumes that "conservatives" in general are the base for Bush. They are not. Bush actually has a very small, narrow base that he works for almost exclusively, and they are not aligned with traditional conservatives at all. His base is mostly made up of high-dollar crony capitalists, with a few bones thrown to the rabid religious right to keep the barking down. They pretend to listen to conservatives; for the "average person" they haven't a clue or a care.