[Perlstein]

I detected many conservatives beginning to care more about power than principles.

I don't see any of that amongst the Dims....</sarcasm>

...in what I saw as an uncritical devotion to President Bush...

He saw that here?????
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I missed this one. Is it sarcasm? I definitely won't have time to give my sense of the matter, but I certainly have seen evidence that, say, paleocon critics of Bush have not been made to feel welcome here.

[jjbrouwer]

They generally feel the need to tell you when they are trying to be sarcastic. Luckily, they rarely use the </irony> tag as this would be a little beyond most of them.

[lugsoul]

Here's your softball...

Other than "because they have nukes and we can't do anything about it," can you think of any reason why we put up with Pakistan's long-running and continuing support for terrortist who want to kill us?

[Onelifetogive]

paleocon critics of Bush have not been made to feel welcome here.

They may not be the majority here, but they ARE HERE. I regularly see two factions:

1) Bush (and most of the GOP Congress) are better than Kerry (and the Dims) We must accept them.
2) Bush (and the GOP Congress) are not faithful enough to Conservative principles. We need to send them a message.

Both have a point. We don't want to go backward (Kerry), but we have to do something to move forward (Constitution Party?)

[veronica]

I definitely won't have time to give my sense of the matter, but I certainly have seen evidence that, say, paleocon critics of Bush have not been made to feel welcome here.

That's because there is very little difference between the paleocon right and the left. Both are isolationist, anti-Israel, and anti-semitic. That's how crazy the left is now. It's morphed into the loony ultra-right.

And they both have lots in common with the America-hating Islamofascists...