Rather than blame conservatives, especially Rush, I'd think we would be rather concerned that large numbers of our fellow Americans have basically turned their back on fighting terrorism.
It is not the conservatives that didn't come through. It's the moderates. They stabbed the GOP in the back---again.
I am not blaming conservatives. I am saying the base was demoralized. I was. Delay, the growing of the Ed Department, Harriet Meiers, two justices who may not be all that conservative, an unanswered immigration situation, and the Foley's of the world, these are some of the things that demoralized me. We had a shot at being really conservative: having a moral center. President Bush could have chosen notably conservative Justices, and people like Ann Coulter rightly chided him for not doing so. And now our education mandates are going to kill us financially-here in New York State our taxes are insane to support an out of control education department which is doing a piss poor job and is white collar welfare.No Child Left behind just grows that monolithic structure. Bush inherited a terrible situaton. But he made a tacitcal error. He should have focused on a narrow, nationalistic approach to terrorism. Not an endless war on terror, and he should have secured the borders. A plane can still fly into a NY highrise? That should not be the case. I see so many areas in the tri state-oil holding centers, resevoirs, so many opportunities for terrorism unprotected. Again, the President inherited a terrible situation, but I think he was spread to thin. I think he is not as conservative as the base that brung him, and I think we became demoralized. V's wife.