[marron]

It is useful to remember that Bush was elected with less than 50% of the popular vote, in an election that turned on a few dozen contested votes give or take. In a nation of almost 300 million people, that is mind boggling.

The Senate is in liberal control, especially when you consider that a half dozen Repub senators consistently vote with the Demos. The House of Representatives has a microscopic Repub majority, but when you factor in the Repubs that vote Demo, even that majority evaporates.

With the marginal exception of maybe one major newspaper, and one TV outlet, and a few radio talking heads, the media is solidly socialist and statist in its orientation, aggressively so, to the point of dishonesty in its reporting.

This is the problem, and the solution is not abandoning Bush, but sending him some ammunition in the form of a conservative majority in congress. If we can't do that, then badmouthing Bush is just an empty exercise.

[Sabertooth]

This is the problem, and the solution is not abandoning Bush, but sending him some ammunition in the form of a conservative majority in congress. If we can't do that, then badmouthing Bush is just an empty exercise.

Ah, but here's another potential problem...

What if voting GOP "no matter what" only encourages President Bush to pander leftward even more?

If a politician can't lose your vote, what leverage do you have?

[illstillbe]

Of the 300 hundred million potential votes you seek to dedicate to ANY candidate ... it might be useful to remember that there is a fair amount of potential voters, there, decidedly below the registration age ... legitimately lowering the count, marron ... whose name comes very close to ... well ... legendary jokes, here ...

Drop a letter here ... pick up one there .... you see where I am going ... to the maroon crowd ....