[.30Carbine]

I understand that you don't like or appreciate "the base," nor do you find them relevant. I get that.
It seems to me that the base was liked and appreciated and relevant in 2000. Has the tent become smaller?

[Texasforever]

It seems to me that the base was liked and appreciated and relevant in 2000. Has the tent become smaller?

No because Bush put his own political neck on the line by campaigning for the very same ones that are now whining that the "devil made me do it". Bush went out and reversed the history of out of power parties gaining seats congress in the mid term elections.

[Huck]

I am sure my congressman, Scott Garrett, was among those voicing dissatisfaction. And you can bet your ass I have been on the phone to his office. And to the president.

[Poohbah]

It seems to me that the base was liked and appreciated and relevant in 2000. Has the tent become smaller?

Well, they were liked, and appreciated, and pandered to...

And then they didn't show up on Election Day.

I've seen folks in the self-proclaimed "base" brag about their support for Bush AFTER the damn election, as if that's actually significant. But if they'd turned out in the same pathetically low numbers as they did in 1996, all of those damn rallies would've been unnecessary.

The GOP discovered that NOTHING makes the self-proclaimed "base" happy, so they started ignoring them.

Bush is willing to stick his neck out for the folks who actually voted for him. The loudmouth "base" didn't.

Tough noogies.

The self-proclaimed "base" better learn to be gracious in accepting charity--because that is what they've been getting since 1/20/01. They've gotten a lot of goodies when you consider that they didn't deliver votes.