GWB learned from his father that broken campaign promises are to be avoided. Too bad he didn't pay closer attention; he would've realized that more people were disappointed in his father because he caved-in to the Democrats on a number of issues, one of which being the new taxes.
The fact that George W. Bush is breaking no campaign promises is sort of beside the point. If he does something so monumentally foolish as pressing this amnesty issue, he will alienate (no pun intended) more Republican voters than Rove is probably gambling on. With such a lame lineup of Democrat candidates, this is literally George Bush's election to lose. It looks like he's going to attempt to do just that, too.
Actually it is because there is such a lame Democratic lineup that Bush feels he can do this amnesty thing and still retain conservative votes. And he isn't wrong on this. We have no where else to go. None of us are about to vote for Dean- who will lose in the biggest landslide in history if nominated.
As an aside- witness the liberal mainstream press beginning to savage Dean with "scandal" stories on the front pages of the NYT and Boston Globe yesterday. There will only be more to follow. I predicted the liberal establishment would strangle the Dean campaign- I just thought they would have started a long time ago. Kerry or Clark are down but not out- especially with the DNC and liberal beltway gunning for Dean. Now if the liberal establishment and their media allies manage to derail a Dean nomination- a Clark or Kerrey nomination will be a real threat to Bush. We should all be defending Dean and hoping he wins.