Expose !! Bush is not a Republican !

[kentuck]

In a dramatic turn of events, George W Bush was accused by Richard Dreyfuss, the actor, of not even being a Republican! Real Republicans do not start wars. Real Republicans do not spend money like a drunken sailor. Real Republicans respect the Constitution and individual rights.

Bush is a radical under the flag of right-wing conservatism. He is not a real Republican. He is a one-note Johnny with taxcuts for his wealthy friends. He could care less about fiscal responsibility.

[Ima]

well

He better be a pug because the Democrats sure don't want him.

[mediaman007]

1. Dreyfus got it from me!

Sad to say but thankfully the Democratic Party is so diverse, a takeover of this sort would be very difficult.

The Republicans are so eager for power, they sold their souls.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Remember Bob Barr? Former Rep.(R-GA)? Bob Barr says

"An agonizing choice
Conservatives have plenty of cause to abandon Bush"

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2004-10-07/news_flankingaction.html

Bob's not a happy camper. Would he be clamoring to impeach Bush* if Bush* hadn't gotten other Georgia 'pubs to redistrict Barr into a new district, leading to his failure to win re-election?

Well, maybe he wouldn't go that far, but clearly Bush* has disappointed him by not being conservative enough in regard to economic matters, guarding our borders, and civil rights. (You may remember that Barr has been doing consulting work with the ACLU since being pushed out of Congress.)

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Ah yes....and Bush doesn;t agree with the Repubican Platform

on gay rights.

Not to mention the abortion issue. Does anyone really believe that if Jenna or Barbara got pregnant (whether through consentual sex or rape) that abortion as an option wouldn't be on the Bush kitchen table?

[kokomo]

4. Having left behind my Republican family in 1965, I agree with Dreyfuss.

I even worked the floor of the Republican National Convention in 1960 at the Chicago Stockyards Arena to get Barry Goldwater nominated over Richard Nixon. BTW, a teenaged Hillary Rodham was also there working for Goldwater. I was a member of Young Republicans/YAF at my college.

John F. Kennedy won and challenged me to look deeply into my political beliefs. I was being converted. I still worked for Goldwater in 1964 but not with the same conviction. I didn't like LBJ, felt he was too slick, but Robert Kennedy, then Eugene McCarthy pulled me over to the Democratic Party where I have been ever since. The party of Lincoln began to pull the racist Dixiecrats out of the Democratic Party in droves due to LBJ's Civil Rights agenda. Really more Republicans backed LBJ than did Democrats, but these were the "old" Republicans of Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. In fact, black America was more Republican than Democratic until LBJ. They felt a debt of gratitude to Lincoln for ending slavery.

The Republican Party of today is nothing like the party I grew up in. However, I don't understand why my family refuses to acknowledge that change. They have such loyalty to the party, that they are blinded by what is happening. My family was for smaller government, local control, fiscal responsiblity, no government snooping in our homes, churches, doctor's offices, etc., no foreign adventures....doesn't sound a bit like Bush's party, does it?