"Yes, you're right. But we know how that would be played by a media starving for ways to paint Bush and his supporters as right wing extremists"
Screw the media. They are going to do that no matter what we do, so don't worry about it and just get it done.
Get it done is right, there is no point to making that more of an uphill battle though. I want to win the war and that requires picking the right battles.