Hog wash. I have no idea what you''re talking about. I don't know anyone, RINO or conservative, who stayed home in 2000, and as a daily reader of FReep, I haven't seen anything over the last four years which supports your ridiculous assertion. Contrary to your delusions, conservatives brought the White House back to the Pubbies in '80, '84, '88 and '00, and won the Congress for the Pubbies in '94. Conservatives were the GOP until you RINOs took over.
I remember the words of Larry Hopkins, the congressman from Lexington, KY, that I worked for in '88. At his victory celebration, he told us "I can serve my party best by serving my country first". When the GOP again lives by this principle, I will consider giving it my support again. But first y'all have to look up the definition of "principle".
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
You better call Karl Rove then; because he sure as hell thinks 4,000,000 of the religous right sat home in 2000.
and as a daily reader of FReep, I haven't seen anything over the last four years which supports your ridiculous assertion
Then you don't read it very closely.
"Assessments that Bush has given up on the gay vote seem confirmed by Bush's strategist, Karl Rove, who has repeatedly claimed that the key to re-election is mobilizing the estimated 4 million evangelical voters he believes stayed home in 2000. "