You could be right. I didn’t get that impression at the time. It seemed like he was genuinely surprised when people didn’t just trust him about it. Then, Laura called us all sexists, which was the same M/O that the amnesty pushers used later calling us xenophobes or racists or bigots for wanting the rule of law enforced. That fight tore the party apart. I still think the amnesty fight was more responsible for us losing 2006 than anything the pundits blame for it.
He did finally come through with Alito, but can’t we just at least try to nominate someone who could do that on their own without us fighting them?
Everything’s screwed from the top down in this country and it seems like we have enough work to do without picking guys to ‘lead’ who need us to babysit them.
I think Laura is a liberal at heart.
I think we lost in 2006 and 2008 because the press convinced people George Bush was stupid and GB never defended himself on one single thing.