[varon]

Bush is betraying the 'principles' for which he claimed to stand.

Right on. Bush is not doing things that are right but things that make him popular. He wants to be liked. ( re-elected )

[Paul Ross]

Exactly. His personal popularity, based on trivializing the conservative agenda, and canonizing the liberal, may well get him elected with huge margins, but will be the END FOR THE CONSERVATIVES AND GOP. We won't get the Senate back, and we will lose the House. If GWB thought it was tough with a House and Senate (yes, even the Senate WAS) in our nominal control in spite of Jeffords and RINOs, he will be inheriting a 'Veto-Proof' legislature that will be pulling a Reagan on him....

It sickens me to think of Tom Daschle with a huge Senate majority telling GWB when he finally discovers some partisan/conservative gonads being told "Do you feel lucky? Make my day, Punk!" And it is all avoidable if GWB was to just jettison Card/Rove. These guys didn't get him elected. We did.