Please take a message to your handlers. Tell them that about 12% of the electorate in this past October wasn't persuaded by their mantra and that number is growing as their stocking horse is exposed.
Emphasize the obvious to your pragmatic sponsors. If they wish the support of that growing percentage of the increasingly cynical, non believer on the right, they had better be willing to compromise on domestic issues because they can't be competitive in California in 2004 without the cooperation of at least 50% of that group if they continue to send shills instead of making an honest effort.