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Of course I've been reading the comments here (and I'm not a "faux Conservative -- you're really on a rant here)... what I see is a party that is badly fractured right now and people trying to voice what it is they are not happy about. We can either stick our heads in the sand or we can pay attention and learn enough to pull everyone back into one tent before 2008. Maybe instead of insults we should look at what has so many people in a dither.

I, for one, am not happy about the Iraq Study Group -- it appears the President is being supportive of their findings, one of which is to flip Syria to our side by handing them Israel on a silver platter. HOWEVER, I'm also waiting to see what he actually does regarding the report.

The party is "badly fractured" because the msm created it. If you really followed conservative values, you'd see, this is a msm manufactured phenomena, and those 'true conservatives' have bought it hook line and sinker..

I think Bush has been very strong in advancing his views, but he's finally been worn down by the media, the Dems, and events in Iraq. I remember the day of his first inauguration, it was cold, blustery, wet, and miserable in DC, and I thought it was a bad omen for his presidency. It seemed like the forces of evil were arrayed against him, and they've been unrelenting.

In Iraq, Bush was fighting three wars: against the insurgents, against the Dems, and against the press. Or more precisely, the insurgents, the Dems, and the press were all united against Bush. An incident like Abu Ghraib, for example, was a minor story, really, and was being dealt with by the military, but the press morphed it into a major, months-long story, featuring it and re-hashing it every night, bashing the military, bashing Bush, bashing America, and emboldening the insurgents. And that sort of thing happened over and over, and they finally just wore out Bush.