[Buffalo Head]

Spoken as a true kamikaze conservative, seeming incapble of understanding that elections must be one before policy implemented. Your all-or-nothing attitude will leave you and your troops forever watching (and belly aching) from the sidelines as politician either preserve or destroy our constitution and country.

Your hero Barry Goldwater was just as ineffective in actual politics, but he did deliver some good speeches.

My hero Dutch, on the other hand, was very pragmatic and actually accomplished all that was accomplishable under the circumstances.

Reagan made a difference, Goldwater did not, even though their philosophies were quite similar. Regan understood that compromise is the art of politics.

The kamikaze conservatives are very counter-productive to their goals and efforts. Almost all of them are piss-poor salesman, never convincing the middle ground much of anything. Elections are won on the middle ground.

Please stop and consider how your words and actions are hunting the very things you claim to love.

[muawiyah]

Actually, Goldwater rejected Social Conservatism and Social Conservatives. His interest went no further than the military and budget matters.

We have a realpolitik problem here in that over the last two presidential races the Republican vote totals have declined yet the Democrats have increased their share and the vote totals. Last time the Democrat got 10 million more votes!

We can win only by increasing share of the vote and the absolute number of votes. Obama wins by doing nothing ~ in fact, he can take up to a 15% hit on his last tally in 2008 and still win.