As a pro-life/values-conservative Republican who's getting a wee bit tired of lipservice, I'm feeling a bit betrayed at the moment. Go ahead and smack me down. See what good it does.
I know what you mean.
George W. Bush and Jeb put the GOP's BUTT on the line. If a knife goes in their back from Keyes and Terry, especially if it is justifed by a so-called "betrayal", DO YOU HONESTLY THINK A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WILL EVER TRUST "PRO-LIFE/VALUES-CONSERVATIVES" AGAIN?
I think the answer will be NO. If you can make a convincing case otherwise, I'd like to hear it.
You got more than lipservice, buddy. You got the governor of Florida, Congress, and the President catering to your will, right up to the limits of their authority. You got the nuclear option killed off just to have half a chance of saving Terri Schiavo. You've gotten Social Security reform derailed just to have half a chance of saving Terri Schiavo. And then your ace legal team deliberately threw the case because winning it didn't serve the interests of Randall Terry et al.
Thanks a lot. Y'all took out a huge loan of goodwill. If you want to get anything other than ignored, you and your buddies had better deliver some astonishing victories in 2006 and 2008. We'd better have a cloture-proof Senate after 2006 if you want anything more than a "drop dead" from the rest of the party.
Instead, I hear folks talking about torpedoing Rick Santorum in 2006, because (I guess) they think Casey's going to be more conservative.
Go ahead and do it. I double-dog dare you. Go ahead and toss out Santorum. Go ahead and re-elect Feinstein. Let's see how you get treated after pulling stunts like that.