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I cannot believe anyone is dumb enough to actually believe this remark---then again, after living over 80 years, I have met a lot of dumb people

Right you are, sir. The "not a dime's worth of difference" argument is used by the intellectually lazy.

You should love it
Way more than you hate it
What? You mad?
I thought that you'd be happy I made it...

"I cannot believe anyone is dumb enough to actually believe this remark---then again, after living over 80 years, I have met a lot of dumb people."

Thanks for the genuine laugh. I struggle with this attitude all the time as well and cannot believe rigid and self-defeating some outlooks are.

To be honest, I'm not a Bush fan myself and I believe he is playing very risky politics with the deception of the 'triangulation' strategy. Furthermore, for patriots looking for honesty and conviction, he does himself, and us, a great disservice. Even so, he is playing politics in the timeless fashion.

For my part, however, the glaring duplicity IS a concern. Granted we, as conservatives, continue to make gains in various areas, but our hold on tenuous ground is transitory and can be lost faster than it has been gained. Enemies abound and true allies are hard to find and precious to hold. Like it or not, the reactionaries here are forecasting a very real potential event in the form of a watershed among the members of our current anti-socialist coalition.

Some here are like barflies that gain insight and courage in proportion to the amount left in their glass. Others are just as dogmatic about the purity and righteousness of the Republicans as the RATS are about their socialist front AKA the Democratic Party. To those, like myself that have worked a long time to see the gains we have made, the extreme danger of fragmenting at this point is clear. However, being tempered by a lifetime of betrayals and setbacks, none with a political history can deny the need for a new vehicle if a present party proves antithetical to freedom and liberty.

For myself, if Bush wants to play a close hand and manages to take the pot - I'll be able to live with that. OTOH, if he is carrying out a further plank of his centrist (read: anti-Constitutional) core vision and actually approves the extension, then I will have a real, live reason to weigh sending a message, and believe me, I know the consequences of a Republican loss in the face of an angered Socialist enemy.

This is the debate. These lines are read and contributed to by thinking people. This is the process of refining change, and like refining anything, there is a good deal of dross.