No consternation. I know enough about politics to know that you don't pay any attention to what people SAY, you pay attention to what they DO. If you weren't so busy beating your chest like an apeman you might figure that out yourself.
You don't know anything about me, pretending otherwise is foolish. Apeman? Another ad hominem, keep'em coming, I don't care they make you look silly, not me. What politicians do matters more than what they say. Don't think so? Read GHWB's lips.
From the link you kindly provided early: "Rove took my arm and literally got in my face, using the old drill sergeant intimidation trick of speaking through clenched teeth with his nose an inch from mine. It didn't work, because I'm taller (and older, and uglier) than he is, and I took HIS arm in turn. He told me that Bush was sticking to his position, but that Congress would never pass the legislation. I told him that there were a lot of us, that we were dead serious, and that if Bush let the ban get renewed he'd lose the election, because freedom is more important than politics."
Alienate that constituency at your peril, as the Democratic controlled Congress learned...