Flogging the Base and Losing the Majority
Ah yes, there’s the President out there facing-the-nation on TV, sending overworn National Guard troops on a do-nothing mission at the Mexican border, all to give a rush to his ‘conservative base.’
Whoa, George. Your base is already scared to death. Each and every one of them will be out there, voting their stingy and self-centered little hearts out to hold on to what you and Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay squandered. The salad-days of unquestioned control are over and the hard times they are a-comin’, but Karl Rove is selling you a bum steer.
Psst, listen-up, George. You just went on national television, during prime-time, during the unforgivable period of sweeps-weeks and pissed off 43 million Hispanic-Americans. They vote, George. Didn’t Karl explain that clearly? The Democrats haven’t a clue as to how to appeal to anyone and you wanted the Hispanic vote. Wanted it badly and now you can kiss it off.
Over in your Republican-controlled Senate,
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