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The Christian right has a list of complaints with the Bush policy on homosexuality -- from White House and top-level GOP meetings with gay groups to Bush's signing a District of Columbia appropriations bill that funded benefits for unmarried domestic partners.

The White House said that global warming is indeed a problem and caused by humans. That was troubling.

On the issue of steel tariffs, suddenly Bush who was a free trader during his campaign is supporting steep steel tariffs, traditionally something Democrats might do. And he looks like a big spender in terms of agricultural subsidies. He signed a farm bill recently that really would put Bill Clinton to shame.

On the Middle East, after vowing to avoid the job of a peacemaker, again not wanting to look like Bill Clinton, he's dived into that situation and his administration is heavily involved in that. He is supporting "the Road Map" that Bill Clinton would not have even endorsed. Telling the Israelis to restrain themselves after women and children get blown up by terrorists.

Conservatives are also pointing to things like research on embryos. On the campaign trail, he said he wasn't going to support that and he has to some extent, and also the fact that he backed away from supporting school vouchers in his education bill. So a lot of things that are making a lot of true conservatives very uncomfortable.

And finally, campaign finance reform: On the campaign trail he said he thought campaign finance reform was unconstitutional and then he signed that into law.

Karl Rove, White House political director, told a meeting of the American Enterprise Institute in 2001 that 4 million fundamentalists and evangelicals didn't turn out to vote in 2000, almost costing Bush the presidency.

Religious conservatives also are upset with Bush's push to send $15 billion to Africa for AIDS prevention. He dismissed a bid by conservative Christians to restrict the initiative to fight AIDS to only those programs that reject abortion and promote abstinence.

Christian right voters played a pivotal role in electing Bush in his razor-thin victory over Al Gore. He cannot afford to lose them in 2004.

In Order iMHO:

The Supreme Court rejection of federalism in the sodomy case (Lawrence), the promotion of the massive new entitlement called prescription drugs, the follow-on rejection of federalism in the Judge Roy Moore case, the allowance of a massive budget with tremendous cost overruns rather than cost cuts, the unwillingness to force judicial nominees through the Senate, the promotion of pro-abort/anti-gun/pro-gay marriage Arnold in Calif.

Those are the major indicators that something is terribly misguided at this point. All have reached culminating points this summer.