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"I didn't ask you about your principles. I asked which principles you thought George W. Bush was using as a guide by which he would lead this nation."

Those are the principles I expected him to lead by.... I'm not spinning, I don't drink Kool-Aid, and I'd appreciate it if you'd quit trying to characterize me.

No, Bush isn't my ideal leader, but instead of piling on him like others, I choose to stand by him. It isn't constructive to the party, or our shared principles, to continuously tear down our current leader. It simply builds the other side by disenfranchising those we want to sway to our side. Hopefully some leader will come forward in the next cycle that appeals more, and hopefully we won't have caused our side irreparable damage in '08 by showing we aren't any better than the dems at coming together.

No, Bush isn't my ideal leader, but instead of piling on him like others, I choose to stand by him.

Fine. YOU stand by a policy that allows anyone who can crawl across the southern border to enter the country years after national security supposedly became the priority of the government. YOU stand by the nomination of an utterly underqualified crony with a law degree over known, established, tenured jurists to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. YOU stand by silently as people who reach out to embrace you in the spirit of bipartisanship stab you in the back. YOU stand by as shady characters from your political opposition are given a pass on federal crimes while every misdemeanor of folks on this side is celebrated as if it is worthy of capital punishment. YOU stand by as rock-solid, tax-cutting, government-shrinking conservatives are shunted aside as RINOs like Richard Riordan and Lincoln Chafee are promoted.

Meanwhile, I will be demanding more, mindful of the old adage that if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.