Your only choice is the same as always, to choose the most conservative candidate on offer, and keep fighting, keep complaining, keep exposing, keep fighting.
We live in a 50-50 country, and its never going to be easy. We can never relax, we have to fight every day. We'll always have politicians looking for the easy way out, and its only by throwing a fit periodically that we make sure that the easy way out is the principled way out, because its the only way to keep us from embarrassing them in front of their friends.
We don't win by letting the other side win, we win by getting the best deal we can get at each step of the way, and then going back for more, at each step of the way. Take what you can get, then turn right around and demand more.
But don't imagine that a Democratic Congress is somehow good for conservatism. Its tough enough to get a majority now when so many Repubs are weak sisters; it takes a supermajority because you have to outvote the Dems and the weak sisters. It takes a supermajority to even get a bare majority. Electing more Democrats doesn't get you any closer to your supermajority.
marron wrote: "Electing more Democrats doesn't get you any closer to your supermajority."
Well said. The simple fact is, conservatives are NOT the majority in power right now. Bush was always more moderate than conservative, and the Senate is presently controlled by a moderate Republican and liberal/moderate Democrap coalition.
Before I get flamed for calling Bush a moderate, just remember he's always said he's a uniter, not a divider. You don't unite the Demorats and Republicans by sitting on the right, you unite them by riding the middle. That's what Bush has done and is doing on several (not all) issues, and he's been quite open about it all along.