The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre. […]
* Just 33 percent of the public approves of Bush’s job performance, the lowest of his presidency. […] Forty-five percent of self-described conservatives now disapprove of the president.
*Just one-fourth of the public approves of the job Congress is doing, a new low in AP-Ipsos polling and down 5 percentage points since last month. A whopping 65 percent of conservatives disapprove of Congress.
The Bad:
A majority of Americans say they want Democrats rather than Republicans to control Congress (51 percent to 34 percent). That’s the largest gap recorded by AP-Ipsos since Bush took office. Even 31 percent of conservatives want Republicans out of power.
The Ugly: It took 5.5 years of big government Republicans to finally wake the conservatives in this country up.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
The Republicans sold us on the notion they were the party of smaller government. They have had a long time now to proven themselves to be just the opposite. Conservatives who vote on the Principles of Liberty have no where to go. Democrats, on the other hand, are unhappy with their representatives because they haven’t done enough to stick it to Bush. They have no principles, and will vote on straight party lines, because they just want the power back. Either way we are screwd.
The choices are;
1. Republican; More socialism, slowly.
2. Democrats; More socialism, quickly – jump right into nationalizing all major industry, starting with health care and energy (they already own education, transportation, most of energy and much of agriculture and food, communication, the drug trade, etc.).
Now if you ascribe to the “frog in the pot” concept, you should vote Democrat, so we can get the destruction of America over with sooner, and get on to rebuilding, rather than allow socialism to completely take over with a permanently entrenched stranglehold on the world, many years from now.
May 5th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
I should probably mention the big “L” Libertarian Party.
At this point, big “L” Libertarians, even existing as a party is obstructing us from getting where we all claim we want to be. After years of ineffective campaigning, the perfect issue, Kelo v. New London just fell into your lap. The Dems didn’t touch it. The Repubs said nothing. The hearts of the American public were with the Libertarians instantly, and you guys totally failed to gain an inch. There’s not even a single Libertarian elected to the New London board. Instead, a new upstart I know nothing about, the “One New London Party” got two seats.
See this: http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=4093831&nav=3YeX
The Libertarian party needs to be disbanded, It’s standing in the way of it’s own agenda.
May 6th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
People are too busy chasing the carrot in front of their nose. Remember that socialism will eventually do away with this carrot as well, at which point everything collapses.
May 8th, 2006 at 9:32 am
If the current crop of the Republican leadership has anyone to blame but themselves, I’d be shocked to hear about it. They’ve expanded the authortarian wings of the executive branch by leaps and bounds above what Dick Nixon ever could have dreamt of, and thusly all the worrying about “socialist Democrats” (an oxymoron really, guys) is jumping over $50 bills to pick up nickels–our govt is as authortarian as it ever has been. The AWB expiring was a nice olive branch for us gun nuts, but our govt is authortarian as it ever has been IMHO.