Ahhh, but see you have just addressed an issue that you weren't aware of.
Listen. You are absolutely correct in that the Dems don't know how to play W. He positions himself so that he never gives the Left a static target to attack. His approval ratings, if you care about such things, demonstrate that whatever the Dems are doing, it ain't working because they have failed thus far to knock him off of his perch.
But there is the underside to all of this: The conservative base. If one can adequately use FR as a thermometer for the mood among conservatives, the RATS may pick up on it and use it to their advantage. Sun Tzu wrote about this when he said that when your enemy has a fire inside its camp, attack from the outside.
Check this out. It's no secret that the RATS are good at politics. They are very good. But what if they move to criticize W. on his conservative record, not by denigrating it because it's conservative, per se, but criticize him in such a way as to deflate the mood of our base? If they get the feeling that the party faithful (I mean conservatives, not just GOP) are Balkanized, our Balkanization would play right into their hands.
Think about that for a sec.
They know that no matter what, their base votes for their candidates. Period. Take Clinton signing Welfare Reform back in the mid '90s. Clinton, upon advise of his then adviser Dick Morris, took his party faithful kicking and screaming along with him and he signed the bill.
Question: Did the RAT base fail to continue support their President due to one disagreement? Absolutely not! And the proof is how they circled the wagons during impeachment, knowing full well in their heart of hearts that he was guilty as sin. But under no circumstance were they going to give conservatives what they wanted. They stuck together like Super Glue.
Would that we were as tenacious and vicious as they are.
IMO, FR is not a good cross section of consertive America. Fellow conservatives I talk to everyday don't give a damn about CFR. It is a non issue.
The war of terrorism is first & foremost on everyone's minds. Right behind it are taxes, the economy, and local issue. CFR ranks right up there with what scent air freshener you like.
Looking at FR the last few days, you'd think we were no better off than starving North Koreans or burqa-clad women under Taliban rule.
Would that we were as tenacious and vicious as they are.
Tenacity BUMP!
Did he sign away your free speech? Your post makes no sense what so ever.