Yeah, that's the ticket...
Have 8 years of destroying the military. Have 8 years of gutting the intelligence agencies.
Have 8 years of retreat in the war on terror while the terrorists salivate at our willingness to be slaughtered like sheep...
And,to top it all off... at the end of the 8 years... you still may not get your "rededication" to conservative principles by our elected Republicans.
But... how decent and noble of you to take that gamble on behalf of the country and the party. After all... it will only be for 8 years. What bad can happen in 8 years? Heck what bad can happen on any given morning (like 9/11) in two hours? Not much!
If you believe Bush is making a stupid bet and has miscalculated the liberal votes he can win by kissing up to the loony leftist supporters of the National Endowment for the Arts, I suggest you contact him, let him know, and persuade him to repent of his frolic to the left. Otherwise, his antics might well result in eight years of gross dysfunction that you fear.
I said if it meant a return to conservative principles.
It's almost as if your saying a slow death is preferable to a quick one.
Using a national tragedy and trying to play upon someone's potential fears, to motivate them into voting a certain way is silly. You know good and well that the odds are that you or I or anybody else will have a heart attack, cancer, auto accident or any number of things happen to us before a terrorist attack kills us.
You may not be old enough to remember, but many of us here lived through LBJ's presidency and he did more damage to this country than Bill Clinton. If we have to live through another LBJ or Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton to get a Ronald Reagan, then I would do it. I've done it before.