[FairOpinion]

Life is full of priorities. Bush put solid conservatives in important positions, like Rumsfeld, but tried to cater to the bipartisanship, as a "small" gesture and let Mineta stay on.

It was a mistake, in retrospect, but Bush was doing it as a good will gesture to the Dems, who of course bit his outstretched hand.

What some people need to learn, is that you can't have a 100% or NOTHING demand, because in that case you will consistently get nothing.

If you don't support Bush, who do you think you are going to get as next president, probably Dean. Do you consider him preferable to President Bush?

[Orangedog]

If you don't support Bush, who do you think you are going to get as next president, probably Dean. Do you consider him preferable to President Bush?

The GOP has about one election cycle left in the tired mantra of "We're not as bad as the other guys!"

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...if you don't support Bush, who do you think you are going to get as next president, probably Dean...

Why not support a Republican alternative?

[Eastbound]

"It was a mistake, in retrospect, but Bush was doing it as a good will gesture to the Dems, who of course bit his outstretched hand. "

That's what happens when you try to feed starving coyotes by hand. As a Texan, I thought he knew better. He dropped the ball on CFR and let Estrada slide. Let's hope he snaps out of his anesthesia before he loses an arm over the AWB sunset.

[DLfromthedesert]

After 9/11 Mineta should have been HISTORY.