You do have a lot of personal attacks against the president, but they don't detract from the real issues that matter to the American people.

The conservative movement as a whole is very upset right now.

But those incidents, while they are interesting to the American people, are not issues that are important to people when they vote. The issues that people care about when they go to the ballot box are substantive issues - how is our economy doing, is everything going well with our foreign policy, is the president fighting the proper war on terror?

It would have been impossible for the conservatives to win any of these fights without the president issuing a veto threat and the grassroots conservatives becoming active and talking about the railroad to nowhere.

It was a very bad result for us, let's make no bones about it. This was a safe seat, we should not have lost it.

The claimants' allegation of wrongdoing has been completely dismissed,