[ImpBill]

"Conservatives like Pauken have little use for liberal politics and Barack Obama, but they see in Bush a betrayal of principle."

Yeah but he wasn't as bad as the alternatives.

Sigh!

What wasted opportunities.

Double sigh!!

[JoSixChip]

"Yeah but he wasn't as bad as the alternatives."

A lot of people forget that, including myself. But al (he played on our fears) gore and lurch (seared, seared into my memory) kerry would have tried to be as damaging as obumber is if ether had been elected. Bush was a good and principled man, just not a conservative.

[9YearLurker]

McCain was undoubtedly better than the alternative, too—yet how much harm would he have done to the Republican Party, and how much progressive legislation might he and a Democratic Congress slipped through on us?