[Antoninus]

How would you like to have to support a VP candidate saddled with Bush's low poll numbers, having to support the president's amnesty bill, etc etc. It would be a disaster. And you wouldn't be supporting that veep, you'd be supporting someone else. But the veep would have enough establishment support to win the nom and then loose the general.

Sorry, this assumes that Bush would have rubbed his political brain cells together and realized at some point in 2006 that his amnesty bill was killing the GOP and that it not only should be scrapped, but turned into something the GOP could hammer the DEMOCRATS with.

Bush has badly fumbled the political football since 2004. Pathetically, even.

[matthew fuller]

"Bush has badly fumbled the political football since 2004. Pathetically, even."

The word "fumbled" implies failure. I don't believe that very much, or anything that bush has/hasn't done was a failure of his goals. Our Conservative aspirations, yes, but I believe that bush is in control, and accomplishing his arcane and mysterious goals. The southern border being the main case in point.