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This column is utter nonsense. The responsibility of conservatives isn't to worship at the alter of the Republican party while a Republican President -- with a Republican Congress -- expands spending by a greater ratio than any President since the great socialist Lyndon B. Johnson. The responsibility of conservatives is to fight for conservative principles and George W. Bush has become the enemy of limited government.

The only way Bush and the Republican will stop expanding govenrment and get back to a conservative agenda is if it is clear to them that they will lose elections if they don't.

Bush and Rove don't give a rat's behind about conservativism. Both care about getting reelected no matter what policies they have to implement.

It is irresponsible and causes tremendous harm to conservatism to vote for Bush or any Republican who is advancing left-wing, big government policies.

The base doesn't need to change. Bush needs to change. He needs to realize that to win, he must implement a conservative agenda, one which helped Ronald Reagan to two landslide victories.

"I intend to vote in 2004 to reelect President Bush," he declared. "I will do so despite the fact that I do not agree with him on any major domestic issue, from tax policy to the recently enacted prescription drug law. These issues, however, pale in importance beside the menace of international terrorism, which threatens our very survival as a nation. President Bush has earned my vote because he has shown the resolve and courage necessary to wage the war against terrorism."

~Ed Koch

So, Ed Koch, a real liberals' liberal gets it, but the "purist conservatives" don't.

WAKE UP and GROW UP.