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There are a lot more differences among the various Republicans and Democrats than that. For instance, you use the term "Bushie," but GWB is considerably more conservative than his father, GHWB. I notice that you avoid the term RINO. GWB is not a full conservative, but neither is he a RINO. He is far to the right of Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, and Lincoln Chaffee, not to speak of Jim Jeffords.

There are RINOs and RINOs, too. There are the RINOs who vote with the party when they think their constituents will allow it, and so are only as leftist as they need to be to get reelected from liberal districts. Then there are RINOs like Lincoln Chaffee who seem to take special pride in voting just as far to the left as they can get away with, which is quite a different thing.

I'm willing to support a president like GWB if he does the right thing on what I consider to be the important issues, and compromises on the less important ones. You, of course, may have different priorities and think different issues are the most important. For me, the crucial issue is the right to life, and the most crucial job Bush has to do is to start appointing some decent, law-abiding judges. Next after that is national security, which at the moment mostly means dealing with Islamists and China in the right way. So far Bush has done a good job on that, although I'm a bit nervous at the moment about China.

I too would like to see our immigration laws enforced. But it has to be approached in the right way or Bush will be thrown out of office like Pete Wilson. He needs to prevent the Democrats from getting a lock on the Hispanic vote, for instance, like their current 95% lock on the black vote, or else the Republicans can forget accomplishing anything at all. The Democrats have learned to pander to the illegal immigrant vote. It's a form of corruption that needs to be fixed, but it won't be fixed by charging at it like a bull in a China shop.

Finally, Bush is soft spoken. He enrages the leftist voters, but he seems like a nice guy to the swing voters. Bush understands that the important thing is DOING things, like the passage of the Partial Birth Abortion Bill after so many years, or the tax cut bills, or the successful invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Better to DO things than to mouth loud conservative slogans. That was Newt's mistake. And I credit Newt with doing some great things. But he brought himself down with his big mouth.

I notice that you avoid the term RINO. GWB is not a full conservative, but neither is he a RINO. He is far to the right of Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, and Lincoln Chaffee, not to speak of Jim Jeffords.

I thought I covered that in my original post.

"So if you are neither a democrat nor republican and have a different agenda you have to pass yourself off as one or the other. This is a very common practice in the House and Senate"