Too many people are driven by polls, not principles.
It would appeared Senator Santorum was a victim of a deliberate hit piece designed to sow discord in the Conservative Base. Seems what he SAID and what was REPORTED are by no stretch of the imagination the same thing. But as a Social Conservative in a blue state, Santorum should know better then to give the hysteric bigots in the media ANY ammo they can use against him.
Real stand up guy, isn't he.
This applies to President Bush.
Perhaps not poll numbers, but Bush has tried to sing Kumbaya to Europe, make "friends" with the Middle East, smoke the peace pipe with Manslaughter Kennedy, and make love to the RATs in Congress. Bush even has tried to fight a politically correct war, at first showing anger and threats to "nations that harbor terrorists" then kissing and making up to them by allowing Iran to build IEDs and Syria to use its border as a conduit for terrorists.
Along the way, Bush either 1] sacrificed his conservative principles, or
2] proved he never was a conservative.
What we as conservatives have to do is to figure out what we do next. The RATs are gaining constituency by demographics, and the elected Republicans are becoming more and more liberal. The GOP is not the party for conservatives any more.
What are we to do? What we did with the Miers nomination is a great example of what we must do. We MUST fight liberal moves by the Republicans and show them we will not stand for it. We now have Alito up for nomination due to this conservative backlash. This was a victory we conservatives won and we had to beat both the RATs and Bush to do it!
The fact is, Bush has no conservative principles. We true conservatives need to find a way to bring back some semblance of limited government, fiscal sanity, and national sovereignty to this nation--the Republicans are not doing it for us and the RATs are anti-American.
Face reality. This is the way it is. Continued cheer leading for the GOP and Bush will harm us even greater. No more cheers. Start holding Bush and the GOP accountable, just like we did with the ludicrous Miers pick. We won that battle. We can win more battles, and our fight must be both against the RATs and are leftist moving GOP.