One of the posters on this thread expresses a feeling of being betrayed.... that was the message sent to the WH last November. The problem was not the IRAQ war, the Bush Admin made that the focal point rather than deal with the Border and illegal immigrants.
With the loss of both houses, even though the balance is slight, the Dems were able to make the Iraq War the major concern. Had Bush dealt with the illegals problem, Conservatives, such as many of us, would have gone to the polls or voted a straight ticket. We did not. I know many that split the ticket or didn't show. WAKE UP BUSH and pardon these guys and seal the border. (Remember GWB your legacy will not be that you were a great President, but that you were a better alternative! Try to improve over the next two years)
Knowing the Rats are worse than the Repubs on this subject, conservatives shot themselves in the foot by penalizing good candidates over the failures of th eBush Administration.
Now we will see Bush succeed in signing a bill on manesty which is crafted by the Kennedys et al, with no impact being made by the Republicans in COngress to stop it.
Bush is not the Republican Party and the Republican Party is not necessarily conservatism. But you have to compare the candidates with the Rats who run against them. If the candidate is essentially a philosphical Rat, don't vote for him even if he claims he's a Republican. But if there are only a few issues on which the candidate is liberal, but otherwise he or she is conservative, they are still better than a Rat.