[rwfromkansas]

Certainly true, but remember how Clinton decided to issue all those pardons at the last minute because it was the end of his second term and no consequences could come of it politically?

I think Dubya may be waiting for bigger plans until we have a stronger majority.

Maybe not, in which case, he is a disappointment for blowing an incredible opportunity not open to the GOP in almost a century. And that would be very disappointing.

[The Old Hoosier]

And that would be very disappointing.

Indeed. But on top of that, Bush doesn't understand the purely political value of conservative principles. There's a considerable segment of the vote--especially in socially conservative states like Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota--that he can't and won't win by moving to the middle, but that he can gain if he really gets conservatives excited and involved.