[sinkspur]

And what you confuse as a conservative activist is probably an "originalist". Hence, you are an anti-originalist. You opposed Reagan, too.

Yeah. That Reagan. He put in two of the squishiest judges on the Court.

I know what I mean by "originalist" and you are putting words in my mouth.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

If he was willing to fight for CAFTA, and a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, if he was willing to fight for a prescription drug benefit in Medicare, then he should have been willing to fight for something that his party is almost unanimously in favor of.

Specter, among other feckless members of the Republican caucus, might have fought him, but I sincerely believe that we would have ultimately prevailed.

This is the same justification that was used during the debate on drastically reforming entitlements-another issue on which a conservative president retreated-which took place during the mid-80s.

There isn't the constituency for it.

We'll never prevail.

The Democrats are intransigent.

All negatives, never raising the question what if?

This is a failure of will.