Good piece. The ones who won't support anyone but the Perfect (Imaginary) Conservative Republican seem to think that all that has to be done is to let Republicans lose an election and they will be replaced with Perfect Conservatives. But politics is far more complicated than that, and we are lucky to have W. He's achieved more than almost any R could have, through an amazing mix of the ability to choose one's fights and the ineptitude of the opposition.
There are a bunch on this forum who think that. In their mind the perfect candidate is the only person they will support even though they might agree with President Bush on 75%-95% of the issues. Usually they let one thing blind them to reality and instead of trying to advance the conservative agenda they spend their time trying to destroy it since in their mind that is the only way to "save it".
You can say that again and again, every word of it!
I dont need a perfect conservative but i would at least like to have a conservative. I see Bush as a liberal. Who but a liberal would spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer money on international welfare? So what if Bush is "socially conservative." Im more of a social libertarian (more of not completely) i just want my taxes to be as little as possible and spent properly.
Well said.