Bush's congeniality toward the Log Cabins and their growing influence within the Party is quizzical, given his personal morality (which I don't for a minute reproach) and his devotion to his wife and family.
I can't figure out to what to attribute his stance on these matters, except that the NeoCons have been ragging on him and the party leadership for years to ditch the social agenda as a "loser" in battleground states. I've referred in the past to Christopher Caldwell's benchmark July 1998 article in The Atlantic Monthly on divorcing the South, and Bush's approach to the Log Cabins, his promotion of pro-abortion judges to the appellate court (a Freeper referred to one of them as "El Souterito"), and his generally squishy posture on non-economic issues, which contrasts sharply and unfavorably with his hard line in favor of delivering tax cuts to Park Avenue investors.
In short, Bush acts as though he'd been governor of Massachusetts, not governor of Texas.
We can't reward him with support, if he's going to diss the family values he lives, when it comes time to articulate public policy and nominate Supreme Court justices. Particularly when the party of hedonism, sodomy, and personal corruption in every dimension of life -- from lying books to perjury to adultery and onanism in the Whie House -- unbelievable! Just unbelievable! -- will automatically take up every opposed position, in favor of every form of human degradation there is, being exalted in policy to the "equally valid construct" peer of High Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Easter morning.
And I agree with you completely about the Border Patrol, and see that as further evidence that he is supporting a modified McKinleyite agenda -- no tariffs, but lots of wage-breaking, unrestricted immigration, and corporate welfare.
God knows the moral leadership within the Demoncratic ranks is even worse.
The possibility of a government posessing integrity, morality, and decency is far from us - perhaps never to appear again.
Goodbye America.