Go read numerous posts and threads on FR.
Then get out a little.
FReepers particularly, and conservatives in general, have been fighting their hearts out against this CFR cr*p for months. Where have you been?
Big difference in fighting CFR and abandoning the Bush. I know that is hard for a "my way or the highway" self described conservative but that's the facts. The political purists always over estimate their political clout and influence. You would think they would finally realize why they NEVER gain political clout and influence.
Who says he's a sore loser? Who says he just couldn't give John McCain his moment in the Rose Garden, a ceremonial signing of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill? Who says he would rather look petty than go through the gripping and grinning and pen-handling that a White House ceremony entails?
Who? Just about everybody, after George Bush dashed off his signature between bouts on Iraq with Condoleezza Rice and the vice president. Then he dashed off to raise funds.
McCain got a call at 7 a.m. at his Arizona home from a junior White House aide whose name he didn't know, telling him the bill had been signed. Later, a White House emissary brought to his office a commemorative pen and a note of congratulation. McCain issued a statement striking for its terseness: "I'm pleased that President Bush has signed campaign reform legislation into law."
Perhaps Bush was playing, as he so often does, to his right wing, which hates McCain, foams at his bill and deplores his lack of deference to Bush. They attribute McCain's insubordination to the fact that he "never got over South Carolina" -- the state where Bush effectively ended McCain's White House hopes.
The right wing is not moved by the sight of magnanimity and bipartisanship. Right-wingers thought Bush was right to call the bill "flawed" the day it passed the Senate.