The recent polls show Bush with 91 percent support from Registered Republicans. That is better than Reagan at this point in 1984.
The so called conservatives never vote for a winner. They did not vote for Reagan in 80 and 84. They did not vote for Nixon or Ford. They did not vote for Bush 41 or Dole.
The so called conservatives don't vote for Republicans any more than the so called liberals voted for Gore. Liberals vote for leftists fringe candidates and so called conservatives vote for right wing fringe candidates or don't vote.
The Bush bashing conservatives on this site were all fawning over Buchanan or the Libertarian candidate in 2000.
Rove doesn't pay any attention to them and neither does anyone else that wants to win an election
Dean thought he could win with the far left. They aren't even 20 percent of the Democrat base.
The name of the game is the center. The candidate that wins the majority fo the center wins the election. The candidate that wins nearly all the center wins a Reaganesque landslide.
The fringes on either the left or right are a total non factor in winning an election.
Refreshing to see this posting - wish I would see more of the same on a regular basis. I'm tired of the whining that this or that particular group doesn't get everything it wants. Do any of the hard right wingers believe for one moment that late term abortions would finally be banned - that a stand on human cloning would be taken - that Pickering would have a recess appointment ( the others were offered the same but turned it down )- if Bush weren't in office. Sure there are things done that none of us like ....but people -----wake up- what are the alternatives? Common Tator has it pegged.