That is the way Karl Rove managed President Bush II. And it sure has messed the Republican Party up. If you have no sense & no guts; you have no future. The tragedy is that the whipped cur approach has been destroying the future of millions of decent Americans, who trusted people who did not deserve to be trusted.
Yes, that is where the “religion of peace” rhetoric came from, not from the left, but from our very own “compassionate conservative”. What did Barbara Bush teach those boys?