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No, it's not ok. And I think most of the Republicans are fuming over this. It ain't over yet. Thank God that Gore did not get in. We'd still be negotiating with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Huesein if he did (if we hadn't already surrendered that is).

Course of action is to do all I possibly can to re-elect Bush and to build on the Republican majority. I have faith that a more conservative court will overturn this b/s first chance they get.

In the meantime, I suggest the best course of action is to start grooming a more conservative candidate for 2008.

In the meantime, I suggest the best course of action is to start grooming a more conservative candidate for 2008.

How do you propose we accomplish this? I'm not disagreeing, just wondering how you see it coming together.

To me, if we continue to vote for Republicans when they stand in the middle of the road then that's exactly where they are going to stay. Think back to '92 and '94. Bush got whacked in '92 for being a centrist, the Contract With America was born for '94, and the GOP whipped the Dem's up one side and down the other.

But it was the lesson learned from Bush running the country from the middle and losing the support of the base that eventually cost him the election that changed the direction of the GOP. I just don't see how Bush and the Congress can bash the Constitution this way and then reasonably expect to maintain support from conservatives.

And Bush is at least as much to blame as anyone, and more so than almost everyone else. He got the bill he bargained for with McCain, and he signed it, just like he said he would. It's not that he's breaking his campaign promises that scares me, it's that he's acutally keeping most of them. And he's also pledged to sign the "assault weapons" ban back into law if it hits his desk. I believe him. If he helps take a bite out of the Second Amendment like he has the first, are you going to change your opinion of him?