The goal of electorial politics is to reward your friends and punish your enemies. If you think its anything other than that, you're naive. The courts are the referees.
You mean Mr Smith never went to Washington?
I am quite sure that even the idealistic notions of those who wrote the Constituion were likely tempered by baser motives from time to time.
That's right...Bush is forgetting what GOT HIM there(NRA). He gets hit from the right, and hit from the left. It's tough to win a pincer attack.
Unless he shapes up, he's toast. I could give a rip about polls and approval ratings. Klinton had a 60% approval rating and won with 49%.
He's forgetting what got him there(NRA), like his old man did. The right spites him for Perot, or even Klinton(won gun vote). Some slick southern dem governor comes around and BOOM. It's over. 1992 all over again.