[Jim Robinson]

Doesn't matter how you and I answer personally, when the conservative base and the grassroots are turned off by the candidate and or party policies we get losses like 1992 and 1996, barely get by like 2000, 2004 and disasters like 2006. We cannot afford a repeat of 1992, 1996 or a continuation of the 2006 debacle. We must field a candidate that unites and ignites the base and the grassroots. It can and must happen.

[jveritas]

I think the base should come to realize that there is no candidate who can satisfy 100% of what they want and become President. Even Reagan was not able to give the base 100% of what they wanted.

[jveritas]

Regarding the 2006 elections, I do not see it as "disastrous" but only "bad". The democrats cannot even pass a defeatist "non binding" resolution to prevent the President from leading us to victory in the war. The democrats are much less powerful than they, their media, their left wing lunatic base, and many conservative pundits, think they are.

The democrats yell and scream more than they can act to give "emotional" satisfaction to their rabid hate Bush liberal base and their media.