"So, are we going to complain for the next eight months and then two more years and help get Hillary or Daschle or Edwards elected? I'm not. I love a good fight, but like the President, I choose my battles or I just look like an obstructionist."
Seems that way doesn't it? You know why? Because conservatives can be "all or nothing", "eat their own", "back stabbing", hysterical FOOLS!
President Bush is a good man. I may not agree with everything he does or understand it at the time. He has proven to me he is a brilliant, strategic politician. People can sit here and trash him till the cows come home. Democrats are quaking in their boots. They are scared to death of him, foaming at the mouth like the rabid animals they are. They are lost and don't have a game plan. He has demolished anything they had to stand on. To me, that says plenty. I'm thrilled the Dem's are wetting their pants over my old governor. I will never abandon him or the Republican Party because I got my precious, little, conservative feelings hurt.
JMO, but some of the naysayers are disruptors, others are just perpetually cynical and always see the glass as "half-empty" and will never change.
Thank you for your optimism and reason.
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.