Call it Practice

So I have a question for the Northern Alliance, in the spirit of the grilling our Commish gave us yesterday, and in practice for the big secret project...:

The press these days is gleefully touting the degree to which Bush's free-spending, neo-Tip-O'Neill ways are eroding his support from the conservative base.

What do you all think? Is the base going to stay home? Defect to an heir of Pat Buchanan? Write in Steve Forbes?

Will they respond as Sullivan seems to think?

Or will they take Jay Reding's advice, keep their minds on the real issue (the war on terror) and vote for lesser of the evils on the ballot?

My two cents tomorrow or Tuesday - but I thought I'd toss this out to my fellow muj as well.