"You make the mistake of thinking that you represent all conservatives."
Nope. I'm not "representing" anybody.
I am telling anybody who is feeling angry and helpless and who wants to listen precisely what he or she can do to directly affect politics in the future.
I've just got one vote, and I will follow my own advice. Christopher Shays here in Connecticut is a pro-abortion Republican. I've always voted for him in his squeaker elections in the past, because I was voting "For the Caucus". Not now. It only takes a few voters in Connecticut to think the same way, and that seat passes over to a Democrat. That hurts the Party that betrayed us, and it makes the point.
In politics, of course, no reversal is fatal. The Republicans will be able to pick up my vote again if they will offer someone who believes what I believe and says so.
Me acting alone is nothing.
If a million conservatives think the same way, and act the same way I suggested they should, and that I am going to act, it will determine the outcome of the next election, and inflict a disaster upon the Republican Party so woeful that the balance of power in the party will shift towards the pro-lifers and the social conservatives - because they WILL still get the votes.
I could be a barking moonbat.
But then again, I could be the canary in the coal mine.
And none of us is going to know for sure just how deeply Bush has wounded this party by this choice, and the harsh browbeating of social conservatives, until November of next year.
If you're right, and most folks feel like you, not at all and I'm just a barking moonbat.
If I'm right, and a large number of folks feel like me, the wound will be deep and the disaster clear.
It would be better not to have this fight.
It would be better for the President to withdraw the nomination.
I suspect he's as stubborn as you are.
And so am I.
Which means that we cannot avoid this train wreck now.
So, we'll find out who was right about this in 2006.
We'll likely get a small indicator in next months' New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections.
If Republicans win both (and they are both dead even), that's may be some indicator of the mood of the GOP right now, especially in Republican Virginia.