[wardaddy]

Well...he may be a damn good war leader and we all know he's an exponential improvement over his predecessor(and we did crawl thru broken glass for him) but he and the folks he's listening to are simply wrong.

This steady tug away from the conservative base makes no sense to me.

I know that now I'll be admonished and told to give it time .moderate socially and domestically..that next election we will get a supermajority and then things will really click....ok....where have I got to go politically?....nowhere...and Rove knows that....but some folks aren't gonna be pragmatic like me and they might just stay home. It's a gamble that I SEE NO FRIGGIN REASON SUCH A POPULAR PRESIDENT NEEDS TO TAKE....he has beaucoup political capital....

Hell, lets spend some of it dammit!

[Mr. Mojo]

Bump

[Hugin]

My guess is the renewal will never make it out of the House in the first place. In fact this may be intended to see to it that it doesn't happen so Bush doesn't have to sign or veto it.

[RLK]

This steady tug away from the conservative base makes no sense to me.

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Conservatives let themselves be conned.

[Uncle Bill]

Read #140

People vote, and parties gain power, but who is winning, and what direction are we going?

There is no such thing as a moderate position in politics where there is a radical left. Any time you move half way to accommodate the left, the left responds by moving further left, which then moves the center further left. In the last 40 years the middle ground has been moving leftward fast enough to make your head swim, as moderates and peacemakers ineptly pursue the lowest common denominator of mediocrity, which is set and reset by radicals, who are ever increasing in militancy. The leftist position of 40 years ago is now labelled right-wing extremism."

The term conservatism has been so bastardized, it's meaningless.