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To: Dale Baker who wrote (4876)11/3/2005 3:50:28 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541518
 
Bush might not be the most moderate person in politics but he's hardly a fire breathing conservative. About the only things that he has done that really advanced a conservative agenda are his moderate sized tax cuts and just possibly his court appointments. He hasn't shown any spending restraint. His nods to the religious right (again with the possible exception of his court appointments) have mostly been verbal.

I suppose the left mainly thinks of him as a radical conservative because 1 - Anyone who is even moderately conservative will be seen by them (or at least portrayed by them) as being a reactionary, and 2 - Iraq. But getting in to a war really doesn't place a president on an ideological scale, except perhaps placing him as not being a pacifist. Presidents with all different sorts of political views have led the country in to foreign military conflicts.

I think there is a fair number of things that can be accurately said that reflect negatively on Bush, but calling him ideologically zealous is probably not one of those things.

Tim



To: Dale Baker who wrote (4876)11/3/2005 5:05:45 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541518
 
If Bush had a 61% overall approval rating instead of just 61% of self-proclaimed conservatives

I read in one of the Post's columns the other day that the latest ABC-Post poll showed that thirty percent self-identified as conservatives. That seemed low to me I did some Googling but couldn't find any more info.

If it's correct, then we're talking about sixty one percent of thirty percent, which is not a lot of supporters.


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