[ConservativeDude]

"the fact that he dares to defend his country cancels out all the so-called "good," he's doing by spending like a liberal."

astute observation. when will conservatives learn they will never get brownie points with liberals? why then do we try so hard to please them? and then we STILL have to fight like hell to have a two-term president? why can't someone just be an across the board, unapologetic conservative..let's take our chances with THAT agenda rather than trying to appease the absolutists on the other side are going to hate us no matter what! appeasement only discourages consrevatives! it doesn't win over liberals!!!!

[MarlboroRed]

Absolutely. A true conservative agenda would NOT BE REJECTED, whether it's shutting down the idiot spending on social programs that do no good to anyone but their benefactors or shutting down our borders to illegal immigrants and dramatically reducing legal immigration.

When will conservatives ever learn this? People are begging for someone who treats them like adults, begging a return to the sort of America they grew up in, something they can recognize.

[Huntingtonian]

Ask yourself this, if Bush hadn't intitiated the war in Iraq, if he had stopped with Afghanistan, if he had captured OBL and declared a victory against terror, what would the outcome of this election look like?

My guess...the biggest lanslide in history I bet the GOP would control the senate by a filibuster-proof majority! Bush could then have turned away from his liberal spending ways and acted like a real conservative by slashing programs and cutting taxes.

This war has had some BIG costs. It hope it was worthwhile.