All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall

Coyote is pulling his brick. Is GWB's wall starting to crumble?

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There is a reason GW's polls are so low. It is because he is NOT the conservative that he said he was. Something funny happens when you lie about who you are when running for office. The air tends to go out of your balloon. According to Tony Blankly Republicans need a popular President with a solid vision of where this country is going in order to gain or even hold congress. We don't have either, so get ready to rebuild.

But what will the building, that we are to rebuild, look like? Hopefully a lot different than George W. Bush's building, that's for sure.

Which is why it is time to conservatives to walk away from this President. I mean he has no real major initiatives for conservatives to get behind, and walking away really would not mean anything horrible in the sense that he is a lame duck anyway. However it will tell other potential political leaders that HIS is not the path we want this country to go down.

What do we gain by "walking away" from the president? After all, as Coyote noted, he is a lame duck. The answer is this: walking away isn't really about this president. George Allen and Sam Brownback and Bill Frist and Mitt Romney are not lame ducks — they're the potential future leaders of our country — and they need to hear that the status quo is not acceptable. The 2006 and 2008 election voters want to hear a reason to support Republicans, else they assume there's no point in their participation.

George W. Bush still has some time to lead, time to build that wall for future election cycles, but right now he seems to be treading water. As Coyote points out, the opposition party's descent to the bottom of the pool is making it easy for Republicans to dog-paddle, but even a dog-paddle eventually gets the dog where he wants to go.

Where is this dog taking us? Not to a Democratic takeover of the Congress, I would argue; too many political planets have to align to make that foreseeable (I'm not saying it's impossible, just highly implausible). But it's very likely that the Republicans will be wounded in 2006 if there's vast perception of presidential drift, which would lead to two years of governmental wandering in the wilderness.

Unless someone in the '08 elections can demonstrate that they would do things much differently from GWB without violating Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment about criticizing your own party, the result will be President Clinton. Additionally, we'll continue to hear babble like Tom DeLay's boast that government waste has been conquered, and our money, our courts and our values will be wasted.

That's why Coyote is right — other leaders (presidential hopefuls as well as congressional leaders) need to hear this message.