"...Pssst....Jack. What about the coastlines?"
Pssst; Luis; What about the
Coast GUARD?
One reality the so-called “base” (the my way or hiway base) had better recognize is that they no longer are the “base”. The have forfeited that distinction for the past 4 election cycles by sitting out, voting 3rd party, or just being general liabilities. With the shift of the democrats to the very farthest reaches of the left, the middle of the road voters are increasingly voting GOP. The best example is the California election. McClintock ran his entire campaign as a red meat "true conservative" in a fight that ended in a disaster for the conservatives in California. Arnold owes them nothing, and their influence is nil. The base Bush is going after is now the middle and traditional conservatives that have the maturity to know the difference between Republicans and Democrats and, because a "base" that has shown itself unable and unwilling to support their candidate unless he meets their purity test is no longer a base but an opposition group.
So the reality is that your claim to be the "base" of the GOP is no longer valid as has been so since you let his father twist in the wind and voted for Perot and then sat out the election because Dole wasn't pure enough and then sat out 2000 to the tune of 2million of the “base” for whatever fit of pique they could manufacture. There is a new base and it isn't the unappeasables I see posting around here lately. Bush will win and I hold no expectation it will be with what you call the "base". It will be with those that see him for what he is, a decent, honorable and effective president for the entire country. That is why I can dislike some of his decisions but sill support him 100%. So carry on with your pitiful threats to, once again, withhold your votes and just like California, it will only make you less relevant and isolated. You can join the far left democrat party in obscurity.