Probably right, but we may not have to. The anti-war protests in 2003 and 2004 were far bigger than those for the war - it wasn't even close. Still, the war at that time was very popular with the people and carried Bush to reelection and even picked up seats.
There are two things that will sway the GOP and Bush to start acting sensibly on this matter -
(1)withhold money from the RNC and tell them why
(2)tell the RNC and individual senators that you will vote for a third party in the general election even if it leads to the election of a Democrat
Loss of power and all that elected officials understand. The GOP believes that they can govern any way they want and then just say "you don't want a democrat to win do you?" to get you to fall in line in November.
Bingo. They really do believe that they OWN our votes. There is no shortage of footsoldiers out and about -- even here -- taunting, "You gonna elect Hillary?" any time anyone even talks about holding their feet to the fire.
And just yesterday, Arlen Lord Specter came right out and said that they were going to give us two weeks to "cool off" and then jam this sucker right down our throats.
There is a LOT of money that has spoken -- there are VERY powerful interestes who will NOT settle for anything less than the full treatment, and they have NO intention of backing down.
And, thanks to OUR past performance -- our willingness to take an incredible amount of abuse, and then, on election day, hold our noses and vote "R" -- they are confident that they CAN do anything they want. Our mere votes are -- to their way of thinking -- the least of their problems.
I am not optimistic at this point. I really do believe tht the fix is in. I think that we stand about as much chance as Terri Schindler did. Like her, we'll get lots of hand-wringing, lots of "attention", lots of "effort" -- but in the end, she died, didn't she. And in the end, we are gonna have a hundred million Mexican "citizens" taking over our country.
But, the guys calling the shots will make out OK. The employers will have their cheap labor, the politicians will have all those new voters to pander to -- by throwing OUR money at them -- and it'll be business as usual, except for Spanish being the predominant language in our third-world nation.
(1)withhold money from the RNC and tell them why
(2)tell the RNC and individual senators that you will vote for a third party in the general election even if it leads to the election of a Democrat
I included both of those items in an email to Ken Mehlman. Not like I have a lot of money to withhold, but it gives me a small feeling of power :)