Reagan's 11th Commandment

Though I disagree on the Shamnesty Bill, Big Lizards makes an excellent point in his post.

But conservative Republicans, no matter how angry they are at Bush
today, in fact agree with nearly all of his major initiatives:

• Aggressively fighting the war, expanding and rebuilding the military, and
  trying to transform it into a 21st-century fighting force;
• Lowering taxes and making the cuts permanent;
• Security measures such as the Patriot Act, the NSA al-Qaeda intercept
  program, the SWIFT surveillance program, National Security Letters, and so forth;
• Allowing faith-based organizations to fully participate in charitable
  governmental functions;
• Reform of Social Security, MediCare, and other
  entitlement programs to introduce at least some element of privatization;
• The various border-security and employer-enforcement provisions of the
  recently killed immigration bill, all of which Bush supports (and none of which the Democrats support);
• Appointing federal judges who believe in judicial restraint;
• Firm opposition to abortion and embryonic stem-cell research,
  particularly federal funding;
• Unwavering support for traditional marriage and opposition to same-sex "marriage".

The areas of disagreement, while often intense, are dwarfed by the
areas of complete agreement; and in one of the areas of disagreement, federal
spending, Republicans are just as complicit as the president and hardly in a
position to throw stones.

I believe the handlers in the Democrat party have figured out that the way to fracture the Republican and Conservative base is by helping to highlight the differences between them and Bush. This is their plan for winning the presidency and retaining congress. I see it working.

Bush is stubborn. This stubbornness is applauded when discussing Iraq and disdained when speaking of immigration among conservatives. ReedPelosi see this and are using it to make Bush, thus Republicans, more unpopular. We are getting played.

I won't participate because I am too busy working towards a Republican victory in 2008. Democrats scare me more than any Republican. Their policies mean a nightmare for not just the 50+ million newly freed people of Iraq and Afghanistan, but also for hundreds of millions of people around the world and here in America.

It's a complex world. Get used to it.