[Ohioan]

The President's problems are self-inflicted. Without the inconsistencies, that you slough over, the media, the Left, and we disgruntled Conservatives, would have little ammunition--and in the case of the Conservatives, no need--to attack him. As a lawyer, I will assure you that the first thing one looks for, to tear down an adversary, are inconsistencies in his argument, inconsistencies in the testimony of his witnesses. As a one time Conservative student, upholding traditional American values at one of the historically most Liberal campuses on the continent--as well as having encouraged campus Conservatives in fights over the decades since--I can assure you that the prime vehicle the Leftwing Professor uses to undermine the traditional values of students, is to find logical inconsistencies in the conduct or statements of Conservative spokesmen, both current and historic.

It is the same with the witch-hunters, and smear artists of the media. Bush without his immigration views; Bush without Medicare drug coverage; Bush without the idiotic "No Child Left Behind" program in Education; Bush without foreign AIDS campaigns, etc., would be an infinitely stronger candidate than the Bush you defend.

You see what you want to see, however, and will rationalize to where you want to go.

But enough. I do not really like to have to attack the President. I feel he has been a victim of just the sort of fallacy that you suggest in his defense. The culprit is Karl Rove, the epitome of the dysron. Perhaps Conservatives will give the President a pass, for the moment, and focus on Rove with sufficient clarity as to why and how his approach is stupid, in the hope that the President will yet turn back to reason, and we can yet come back together.

How, this Ohioan votes this fall--and I will vote, if only for the few real Conservatives who are also running on the Republican ticket--will depend on what the President does with respect to the Rove approach, over the next few months. In the meanwhile, I am going to try to restrain my outrage towards the President, ideologically, and focus on tactics. It may be a forlorn hope, but it would be good for America if more of us could get on the same page.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Wolfstar]

I will vote, if only for the few real Conservatives who are also running...

OK, Mr. or Ms. Ohioan lawyer, what exactly is a REAL conservative?

[George W. Bush]

It is the same with the witch-hunters, and smear artists of the media. Bush without his immigration views; Bush without Medicare drug coverage; Bush without the idiotic "No Child Left Behind" program in Education; Bush without foreign AIDS campaigns, etc., would be an infinitely stronger candidate than the Bush you defend.

Bump.

You know, we've quietly put up with quite a lot of insulting policy. They knew how we felt about it.

But Rove convinced them that they could finally dump the social conservatives and religious conservatives in one fell swoop and find liberal replacement voters.

And he's failed utterly.

Now they come crawling back, like a cheating husband rejected by his whores, begging our forgiveness, trying to blame us.

Their apologia had better be a lot more sincere than what we've seen so far. Because we now know that they want to dump us.