He's winning in his foreign policy postures as his administration is breaking the code of the "evil doer" network and he will eventually successfully bring them down. And in the meantime, domestically, he has developed a much more modern playbook that certainly has successfully blocked and muzzled the old left's stale and predictable political maneuvering. Each time the left gathers strength to rise up with over confidence, Bush easily swats them away like pesky mosquitos.
The fact that some of the twists to the left and slides to the center domestically are like rubbing salt into the wounds of conservative principles and visions.
Beats me, though, really what is going on, but in the final analysis, IMHO, President Bush is thinking long range and lasting legacy in his ardent and fervent protection of America against the "evil doers" and thinking short term on the domestic perhaps to get us into the election with a winning opportunity to win stunningly more republican seats in Congress.
It is not as easy to frankly know what is going on, as Rush states, we aren't in planning meetings with the President, and without him actually sitting down and telling conservatives just what the heck is going on around here, who knows? But, he is perfectly clear about the present dangers America faces from her enemies. Even most of the left is aware of this first and foremost fact after picking themselves up again for their next attempt in trying to lower the President's popularity. To date, they have failed miserably.