[pollyannaish]

I believe they will begin to rant on this openly using the ports issue as the keystone very soon.

It will be in the name of "security." They don't mean it and it won't go anywhere, but will be a strategy to break up the GOP base.

There are already flirtations with it. I expect it to heat up and be hard to avoid hearing about it by summer. There is no doubt it will work very effectively on some as can be seen by the rumblings around here. The question is...how effective.

[ClearCase_guy]

They don't mean it and it won't go anywhere, but will be a strategy to break up the GOP base.

Like Rangel and his call for a Draft? You never hear Republicans say we need a return of the Draft. But Rangel talks about it pretty consistently.

It would almost be amusing for President Bush to indicate that a review of the Draft is on the table. Dems would fall all over themselves getting to the microphone denouncing such talk as racist, and a war against poor folk.

And Rangel's outrage would be greater than anyone's.

[TruthConquers]

I was thinking along these lines just yesterday. The Demoncrats will try to use this issue to give the appearance of being for national security. It will be a dishonest stab at increasing their power and that of the unions. An outright grab to nationalize, through government control, anything and everything that looks like a "national security" issue to the moderate dummies out there who still vote (and are uninformed).

This will be loud and emotionalized. It will NOT be an honest debate over HOW to secure our freedoms. We will not hear talking heads debate "is information and spying better, or is shutting the doors and manning the walls better?"