Losing more of the base?

[QueenAdrock]

Sounds like it. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701484.html)

With everything set up, all the Democrats need to do is not screw it up. But I know I've said THAT one before. Karl Rove is a crafty bastard, so you'll never know how things will really turn out.

[kaiser soze]

If their base followed cheney's words from 1998, then they will get the point.

"High Gas Prices is a sign of a failed presidency." - DICK cheney

[valvano]

shouldnt that be "are" a sign of a failed presidency?

[Bob]

shouldnt that be "are" a sign of a failed presidency?

i don't think so, the high gas prices are only one sign.

i'm not a grammar nut though

[QueenAdrock]

It's actually "is" in this case, because he's describing a thing, a concept. He's not talking of the individual prices, he's talking about the whole country's rising gas prices, so it's a collective - the whole countries gas prices gathered under this one, singular title.

I think both would be acceptable though. </grammar nerd>

[SobaViolence]

at least we're all agreed it is/are a sign of a failed presidency.

[kaiser soze]

bush is/are/will always be a failed presidency