7/18/2004 08:40:35 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

I must take issue with the myriad posts on various blogs and articles by opinion journalists as of late questioning whether or not the Republican base is "shored up."
 
It is. This is why.
 
I concede the initial conservative problem with the Bush administration.  It spends money domestically like it's water.  I personally dislike Bush's spending, but in the grand geopolitical scheme, it's largely irrelevant.  The conservative base of the Republican Party is also the staunchest supporter of Bush's foreign policy, whose importance to that same base dwarfs the excesses of free-wheeling domestic spending (er, triangulation) that Bush has pursued.   Throw in significant tax cuts, whose permanence will be a primary point of contention going into November, and the neutralization of the gay marriage issue with the FMA, and the base is, well, content. 
 
A better question is whether the rabid shoring up of the liberally insane by the Democratic Party will alienate people not yet convinced that Bush is a minion of Lucifer.

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