[eeevil conservative]

The Repubs are idiot in a bubble--

they are running from Bush- but because they don't realize that his poll number convey not that Bush is too far right-- but becasue Bush is leaving his base and moving left...not staying STRONG on certain areas and issues...

like Gitmo, borders, etc...

NUTZ! these people just have no clue...they listen to the same media for information that lies and scandalizes them...
THAT IS JUST PLAIN STUPID! Like listening to the Baghdad Bob for battle updates...

[eeevil conservative]

ooops forgot the last part!

THAT IS JUST PLAIN STUPID! Like listening to the Baghdad Bob for battle updates...

instead of listening to your OWN GUYS IN THE FIELD!

oy!

[Phsstpok]

they are running from Bush- but because they don't realize that his poll number convey not that Bush is too far right-- but becasue Bush is leaving his base and moving left...not staying STRONG on certain areas and issues...

I've been saying for some time now that I believe that we will pick up seats in both the House and Senate this fall, not lose them.  I base this in part on just being a contrarian, always inclined to go against the conventional wisdom just because it is the conventional wisdom (and I'm right more than I'm wrong when I do that).  I also base this in a belief that there are Republicans who get the point you are making.  We get the "Bush is bad" RINOs plastered all over the MSM and think that is the dominant portion of the Republicans in the race.  Those who get it and say so are caricatured as NAZIs and racists.

But then you have performances like Newt Gingrich's on Fox News Sunday today.  He was hitting on all cylinders.  I kept thinking that the White House should hire him as their Congressional liaison or as the strategy person for the fall elections.  He gets it.  And he's not alone.

I think you've encapsulated the issue here very well.  I personally have faith that President Bush, on a fundamental level, gets it as well.  I'm hoping the president will come out specifically emphasizing the border security portion of immigration reform after Congress gets back to town and push for a commitment to the broader reform dealing with those already here, perhaps by providing a sunset provision to the law, in order to separate the emotional from the necessary.  It would blow the Democrats out of the water and it would start what I think would be an unstoppable march to victory in November.