I did not want Bush to do this. I sent so many emails for months begging them not to do this. The price he may pay listening to Rove. They thought we were blowing smoke and his advisor's knew better. President Bush you should have, I wish you had listened! They thought this would be a non-issue come election. If his conservative base is angry, just imagine how the Dims will use this!
Honest to goodness neither did I, JP. I voted for Bush in 2000. Newbie hacks around here act as though I were just lurking around here waiting to jump up and bite Bush in the @$$.
Not so. As much as I supported GW on nearly everything else, when he and the GOP started floating amnesty proposals in 2001, I posted here that Bush would lose my support thereby.
Then he and Rove, after the primary filing deadlines had passed, jumped up and bit ME and millions of my fellows in the you-know-where on January 7.
They thought they'd be facing Dean, and that they'd win re-election in a 1972 or 1984 blow-out, and that as a result they could blow off unhappy conservatives.
But they're going to learn the lesson Daddy Bush learned the hard way in 1992: you don't mess with your base.