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"Conservatives always undersell themselves"

While I am suspicious of your intentions and everything you've said looks as though you're a plant from the Kerry campaign trying to raise anger against bush from his base, I agree with you on that point.
When Republicans run as "moderates" they LOSE(Ford and Bush 1)... When Republicans run as Conservatives they WIN(Reagan and W.). Notice that Bush's drops in the polls happened when he signed the Prescription drug bill, and when he proposed lax immigration laws. He didn't gain a single vote from either of those things, and they both p-ed off his base. When Bush used this state of the union address to list new spending proposals and loosen immigration laws, his poll numbers went down 5%, which is the opposite of what usuallly happens when a president gives a State of the Union address.

That's all that I was trying to say. Not a Kerry plant - would die before casting a vote for a Democrat. But Bush/Rove have been way to clever in this campaign so far. The country is as polarized as never before (barring possibly pre-Civil War) and he's got to keep his base energized while vote-shopping the dwindling middle. There's no question Bush is vastly preferred over Kerry - hard for me to think a liberal drone from MA could even make it a contest - but conservatives have a right to cry foul when W assumes too much. Else we'd be like the black block of the Rat party - they don't see any red meat - no cabinet appointments, Senators, etc. Rats too busy courting the Hispanics who are more of a swing block.

So don't be those guys, kept on the plantation. If Bush drives the campaign the right way, he's the Man. If he deviates too far, cry foul and prepare to keep him honest.

Sorry for the misspellings last night. Betrayal on the AWB is what I fear. Assuming that doesn't happen I could be far more enthusiastic about voting Republican as early as the end of next week.