[SoConPubbie]

I dunno, I doubt he’ll get the opportunity if a GOP Congress retains power - which, ironically, is much less likely to happen if Romney loses.

Kinda like when GWB had a Republican House and Senate and they stood firm against everything he did that was non-conservative?

Oh wait...

The only thing they really stood against was Amnesty.

All of his spending, his outlandish increase in the size of Medicare, everything else they just rubber-stamped.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Okay, so let’s think about this, for a minute.

You stated a concern about abortion. Do you recall a GOP-controlled Congress advancing an abortion agenda by sending pro-abortion bills to Bush’s desk?

Neither do I.

So, concerning the stated concern you expressed, that settles that issue.

Now, for the other concerns you mentioned when you moved the goalposts, well, so what? Obama certainly isn’t going to engage in fiscal austerity. Virgil Goode isn’t under any circumstances going to get elected to be able to do so. So that leaves Romney. And your example is a bit non-sequitur, since we’re living in different times. Bush was a big spender, in part, because nobody was paying attention to deficits, and he thought he could be one. He shouldn’t have, true, but he thought this way nevertheless. Nobody in the GOP, even the GOP-Ers, think that way anymore. Different decade, different scenario.