It's not like we are dealing with a bunch of peasants here ~ no we are not ~ they're smart and slick and aggressive.
You can't compromise with them.
So you want "more of the same", which is all that silly fence is.
We need to take another direction. Bush proposed what is probably the best option (not a *good* option, but the *best* that was achievable) and hard core conservatives spit in his face.
And we lost the election.