The GOP is in the process of merging with the democrats, mainly because they're too dimwitted to keep up the charade of being in opposition to the dems. The dems can lie more convincingly and that is the trait that has republican politicians in awe of the dems.
Let's hope the GOP formalizes the merger before '04 so that conservatives won't be gulled into giving Geedub a second term or throwing the election to the dems by failing to support a conservative if one can be found to run in time.
While I'll admit there is a move towards RepublicRAT/Demoblican Party out there, IMHO, there's also a subtle move from within the GOP to move the Party to the Right, thereby swallowing up the folks who might be tempted to vote Constitution Party and/or Libertarian.
"Let's hope the GOP formalizes the merger before '04 so that conservatives won't be gulled into giving Geedub a second term or throwing the election to the dems by failing to support a conservative if one can be found to run in time."
While I have not been afraid to chide Dubyuh when I felt he was leaning slightly portside, I've been pleasantly surprised by his knee-jerk conservatism. If he continues along his present course, I can see him being viewed in history as one of the great POTUS's in History (a la Reagan) and it'll be specifically because he will have made Conservatism Cool again...while putting Federal Guv'ment spending on a course that will make it the smallest--as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product--since early last Century.
I've got no desire to throw the baby out with the bathwater...MUD