[Howlin]

I guess Bush realized he needs to get his base back.

Oh, please. He never lost his base. 91 percent of the GOP support him AND his policies.

[Wolfstar]

Good for you, Howlin. Most of us in that 91% are pretty adult about politics. We understand that no two human beings agree 100% on anything — that even with the people closest to us in our lives (parents, spouses, children) we can have vehement, even bitter disagreements and still not discard the whole person.

Most, if not all of the self-proclaimed "real" conservatives who bitch and moan about Dubya on these threads would probably have had exactly the same things to say about Ronald Reagan had FR been around in the 1980's.