[Mark in the Old South]

Gee thanks for the help.

Now allow me to put aside the sarcasm. Your being annoyed is irrelevant to how I vote. So is your views on the conservative purity thingie. Each voter has to make up his or her mind how they evaluate a candidate. A cherry picker's vote is just as valid as a nose picker (I vote the party line).

Bush does not have to fashion a coalition to get my vote, we do not have that form of government, but his policy and the positions he stakes out influence the voter's choice. He has to live with the results. Good for him if he does well. If he does poorly it will largely be his own making.

You can not properly view my posts on this thread as being an example of a cherry picker since I laid out several issues. I also do not think I distorted Bush's position on any of the issues I cited. You are entitled to disagree with my position.

As to the rest of your post I am not sure what you are getting at. My references to chest thumping and knuckle dragging was in reference to the general tone of most posts on this thread not necessarily you personally, but not excluding you either. What you have posted on other threads has little bearing here on this one. I don't keep track of your positions.

[Torie]

Actually, except for the world court, which I thought I helped you on, the rest of your list other than illegal immigration (i.e., abortion, gay marriage and the runaway court), makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me, under any standard. You seem to think Bush can just dismiss the current justices on SCOTUS, and appoint his own or something. What do you want him to do on gay marriage? (By the way I support gay marriage, but that is neither here nor there.)

Maybe I am just too dense to see the forest through the trees or something.