That wasn't evident during the campaign, when they unleashed McCain for his vitriol against the Swift Vets and POWs. That wasn't evident when they started talking 'domestic partners' weeks before voters in eleven states voted against 'gay marriage'. If that was all at the leading of 'boy genius', Karl 'amnesty' Rove, why would anything be different, now, particularly as Pres. Bush is NOT running again? Remember, it was Ann C., on a 'blog' in a way, who coined this term for Rove - 'boy genius'. Rove probably wishes PLB and LGF and the rest would just - go away.
I don't think he gets it any more than those Dem that want to extend such legislation to get only the conservative bloggers. Could I be wrong about the guy, on this? I sure do hope so.
Did we achieve EVERYTHING we'd hoped to achieve? Nope, not even close . . . but it's easier to change the minds of like-minded individuals than it is to change the minds of no-brains Liberals. We just have to slowly but surely keep reeling in the Republican "mavericks" . . . but we can't toss out the entire Cherry Pie just because a few of them aren't yet ripe.
We Conservatives have fought for my entire life to become the Majority Party. Sadly, we've had to make some sacrifices to achieve our goal . . . but we're there now.
Now we can start fine-tuning our political machine to "sterilize" those political prostitutes who would sell their souls to be reelected. But we have the numbers to do it now. We can pick off the RINOs one at a time and not suffer a major blow. When we pick off enough of them, eventually, the others will get the message.
We pick the most egregious ones first . . . but even then we shouldn't pick any ONE offense to be our rallying cry . . . like the abortion debate. For example, Let's say Senator A is Pro-Choice but he toes the line on the other Conservative Causes. Senator B is Pro-Life but he's anti-military, favors Big Government, and believes in gun control.
Abortion seems to ALWAYS be the hot button for us conservatives . . . and I'm as devoutly Pro-Life as anyone else . . . but I suggest this. Senator B's "over-all" failings are far, far worse than Senator A's . . . and could even, in the long run, cost more lives. Our enemies know not to challenge us because we have the world's greatest Armed Forces. If we allowed this to slide, Americans could become sitting ducks.
So, while I agree with the tenor of your comments, I humbly suggest, yes, they need to be corrected . . . but they need to be corrected with an over-all strategy in mind and not just pick one single Hot-Button as the catalyst.
I've waited fifty-one years for us to become the Majority Party . . . surely we can show a bit of patience with the 5-10% of the Republican Politicos who don't "toe-the-line" of our Conservative Agenda. Patient does not mean complacent, however, and that's very important. We've got them in our sights . . . let's just pick them off one at a time while in the meantime we still get 80-90% of our agenda approved.