The base consists of a reliable voting block. They are as you people fondly refer to us, the Bush Bots and the people around them, IE: Family and friends...Business associates, plus a huge majority of long time republicans who are business owners, various employers, managers and the like, in addition to some welders, riggers and true blue American types who without fail, vote straight ticket "R's", and do it every-time.
That is me! Broken glass Republican since Nixon.
I am afraid that some think they are the base by voting a couple times, or once and demanding attention. That is not the true base. They are what is call activists. They cannot be depended on and they never are. But they sure can cause a lot of trouble, because other people think they are the base.
Rush is part of the true base but he has been infected by the beltway, he and I are exactly the same age, started voting at the same time for the same party.....Well, you get the picture.
Of all the pundits and commentators on the planet, I can tell you that he is part of the base and he was upset with the nomination, but he was willing to wait for the hearings and admitted today that he was not happy about the withdrawal and yet felt it to be the best thing. Then after some callers he got defensive and defended a indefensible position that a ripped up coalition was a good thing.
He based that on some Reagan history references, but he fails to see that things were much different then. And the way it went down was not the way I recall it. We did not have the House or the Senate, and the party controlled only a few Governorships. We pulled a political play that they are still scratching their heads over, and because it was so successful and so impossible, history writers have hidden what we actually did.
We built this party from the grass roots up, starting with Nixon. We listened to William Buckley and we dreamed. And we dreamed. And we dreamed...............
Our dreams finally came true!
Now we have a situation......
Either I relent and allow people who I feel are bulls in the china shop to control the agenda, people who tried to overcome the Florida justice department by political fiat for a single brain damaged girl, or I withdraw my support and stay home for 06, and 08 and let the chips fall where they may, hoping to pick up the pieces and start over.
Then there is the better option of allowing the coalition to shift left, just a litlle bit, to pick up millions of disaffected Democrats at the right time, (exactly what we did with Reagan) and reform the coalition by cutting lose the aggravations. Like we did with Buchannon and others in the past.
Let me see..........What are we gonna do.......?????
Does that answer all your concerns?