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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.

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.

I expect the people I vote for to stand up for their own principles, not mine. You said they did it for me and people like me. I guess you're saying they threw us a bone, and their convictions really weren't in it. What you're telling me is that as long as we vote Republican, you're willing to tolerate us unwashed religious nuts, but as soon as we expect our elected leaders whom we worked for, sent money to, and have fought to support, to take a stand when it counts, we're lucky to get the time of day.

And I don't begrudge what Congress, the Pres., and Gov. Bush have done. What I begrudge is the unmasked animosity my fellow conservatives really have for me and people like me. Rather than emphasize with our frustration, you stab us in the back. I'm sorry we've been such a nusance that you and the rest have had to put up with for some 25 years.

While I and others like me think other issues on the President's agenda are worth fighting for, and we will continue to support him and his objectives, don't think we won't forget how shabbily we were treated by our "brethren" (I'm not talking about officeholders here) when our #1 issue came centerstage. If you have to hold your nose to keep us in the party, we'll stay, but we'll hold our nose as well.

NOT to mention the fact other wings of the GOP are royally ticked off about this for various reasons...

Before these folks betray President Bush, they'd damn well better look at Tom Daschle and others who picked fights with the President. The track record clearly shows that picking fights with George Walker Bush is NOT good for one's future prospects.

Thanks a lot. Y'all took out a huge loan of goodwill.

Man Poohbah, step back from the cyniscim a bit. This fight existed with or without Schiavo, and it exists without us the constituence. This is a power struggle between egotistical men in suits vs. egotistical men in robes.

However, I wouldn't characterize the Bush's moves as pandering. Nor would I consider myself part of the Evangelical Right to Life group, but this whole episode has me out for (political) blood.