Do you agree: "Loyalty to Bush May Hurt GOP Lawmakers"?

It's not their job to be loyal to the President. It is their job to be loyal to their constituents and their country. The President may lead the country but 300 million Americans are the country and republicans have occasionally forgotten that in the last few years. They also need to remember that loyalty to their party should be after loyalty to their country not before it.

Will it hurt them? I think so because the president doesn't give them their jobs. Citizens do. If they make it clear they support the president in defiance of the citizens who elect them then some of those citizens may not elect them again.

It always amazes me when I am accused of being unpatriotic or disloyal or downright traitorous for disagreeing with Bush. Did we get a King without anyone telling me about it?

Absolutely. And its hurting the GOP as well. What many Republicans (including lawmakers) have not realized is that Bush represents on ly the extreme right wing--essentially the neocon (and mostly religiously driven) fring of the party. And the many genuine conservatives have spent the last 2 decades intimidated by these extremists.

The reality is that if the moderate Republicans and real conservatives just stand up to the right-wing, its NOT going to hurt them. Why is so obvious its almost funny: the neo-cons have nowhere else to go. If the GOP stops catering to them, they won't lose that "core" vote. The only alternative the neocons have is to vote Democrat. And when pigs have wings, that might happen. In the meantime, its the mainstream that has the upper hand--if they will only see that and act accordingly.

Yes. The most recent elections suggest that Bush Administrations policies will have an effect on fellow Republicans. They need to start moving away from him in order to avoid being connected to Bush's failures.

Yes,it's inevitable

The war and the way it was executed is nothing less than a disaster.It's a loser issue,they will have to run from it or loose.At this point it might already be too late to get this dark electoral cloud of their party.Might be very interesting the next months to see how far some will be going to turn themselves into anti war candidates.

It was obvious in the Repub debate last night. Those candidates were running fast and hard away from Bush. GWs screw ups will haunt the Repub party for years to come.

I completely agree. Bush is thoroughly incompetent and this us of a has suffered for it. not merely incompetent yet dishonest to boot. He lied to the yank human beings 935 circumstances to get a conflict that under no circumstances must have began. Bush is an outbreak on the u . s . a ..

It will help them get the republican nomination, but will hurt them in the general election.

They may have to do some flip-flopping to have any chance of winning. The problem is too many intelligent people are onto their game of lying to get votes.

Yesterday's "debate" showed how the repubs are distancing themselves from Bush. Obviously they think it would be damaging.

the truth will out, I don't see loyalty to the President hurting anyone, depending on the make-up of the district

It'll hurt with some voters, but not with others.

It makes a big difference what state they're from.