It has to do with the nonexistent base acting like spoiled children who never had to work in the real world.
Give me some sort of pointer to the 4 million conservative poll. Anything will do.
The Bush apologists are advocating politicians doing bad things to buy votes, to guarantee re-election. Re-election over the good of the country. The politician's interests over the country's.
'Smart' politics. Just like the Ds do. Exactly what we've criticized the Ds for all these years.
In their minds, a Bush re-election is the goal, with 'doing the right thing' as a definite after-thought. And they insult the people wanting their elected officials to do the job we elected them to do.