Rethuglicans have not woken up... they are not seeing the light !

Bush's dismal approval ratings on the Iraq war, are IMO , based on incompetence, NOT that the war is immoral and illegal.. Americans (especially the rethugs) still believe in the PNAC agenda and believe that dominating the Arabs (as well as the world) is the method to be used in this MAKE-BELIEVE "war on terror"....

Lets not fool ourselves, most have NOT woken up; they still do not even think of discussing the root causes of this anti-american backlash...NOR do they give a flying fuck!... Ignorance is bliss for these assholes !... and if you do try to bring up the root causes, you will still be called anti-american and probably much, much more !... So lets stop kidding ourselves !

... about what idiots think, you might as well tie one hand behind your back.

Some Republicans are coming around, some are not. I agree with you, most of those coming around are in fact the same lame-ass do-dos that claimed "we could have won in Vietnam if they'd only let us". The actually believe that if only we'd used enough troops, or done this that or the other, everything in Iraq would be peachy.

You can't fix the delusional, just hope that the handful that are coming around for the right reasons, that the war was a mistake to begin with, vote for Dems or at least stay home :)

I always tell them I'm not the guy supporting torture of prisoners, or throwing away the lives of Servicemen in an illegal war, or gouging the poor and elderly with outrageous oil prices and medical costs, or advocating hate and intolerance toward my fellow Americans who happen to be gay. These pricks are the most Anti-American administration in our history. They even make "Tail Gunner Joe" look like a Boy Scout in comparison. Fuck them and their B.S. rhetoric. Their days are numbered, America is waking up to reality. Better late than never.

Many think that just because Repugnicans are fighting against one another that this means Democrats automatically win by default. That's foolish thinking. We're already seeing a complete political turn-off going on about BOTH parties. The corporate media's mantra of "everyone is doing it" when it comes to corruption and ineptititude rubs on Democrats as well as Repugnicans...and in some cases is being used by Repugnicans to save their bacon. These voters are pissed, but they don't see anything in the Democrats that invites them in. I'm not talking about the kool-aid drinking freepers, but the moderates and "swing" voters...the ones middle-class whites who vote Repugnican against their best interest due to decades of misinformation about Democrats. They may not like Booosh, but that doesn't mean they're going to vote their local Congresscritter out. In fact some will give the benefit of the doubt...saying it isn't their Representative's fault...it comes from elsewhere...booosh, Democrats, "librul media" and so on.

While it's early, I see a landscape similar to what helped Ross Perot come out of nowhere and create, for a time, a credible third party. If Repugnican scandals and party division continues, I can see this same scenario happening again in 2008.

going on amongst the Conservatives. It's like having a loved one who's alcoholic (wait,on second thought they DO have a loved one who's alcoholic!) It's not that they're ready to admit to themselves and others that the loved one has a problem, rather, they just wish he wouldn't drink so much. Agreed, they see * as being incompetent rather than criminal. And this doesn't necessarily translate to Dem votes. They just wish they had a different Conservative running the show.

...or actually that they "believe" in anything besdies hating liberals. The only reason why Americans vote for or support conservative politicians is that they've been taught to hate liberals. Most people have never even heard of PNAC. Most Americans don't even know what the US's foreign policy is besides "goin' huntin' for terrorists," which, I mean, how do you disagree with THAT without sounding hopelessly effete to the average uninformed rural/suburban/exurban voter?

As long as liberals/Dems seem to be FOR something, many Americans are just knee-jerkingly, reactionarily against it, because....well, just because, God Damn It! They don't even know why.

So, yes, the GOP hold on America isn't over. They're not seeing the light. The best WE can do is to peel away some independent support and continue preaching to the choir, hopefully loud enough so a neighboring choir may overhear and be tempted to join in. But the right will always have at least 20% of the vote.