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"...working to go forward..."

I guess it's this concept which is troubling. If going 'forward' means making more efficient the engines of Socialism, then I think that is misguided 'conservatism'.

Of course, if things are as bad as you say, it's Socialism that the voters want.

Only a generational change can help that, and it will not be pleasant to go through, imho.

I agree with you that 'one heart at a time' is the way to proceed, and I support your President against his enemies. I just don't think Ron Paul and similar spirits are 'enemies'. ;^)

Of course, if things are as bad as you say, it's Socialism that the voters want.

According to the polls, the most important thing to most voters right now is a federally paid prescription drug program - what does that tell you?

I think we do need a generational change, and I think Clancy J. is right on the money about this.

"...working to go forward..."

Again, think you are over-interpreting these words. They merely mean starting with what we have today and changing it to more conservative as we can - as opposed to working to immediately return to the beginning.

However much we like things as the forefathers set them up - they are not what we have today. To continually bemoan this fact and expect a leader who wins an election to come in and throw out all changes for the last 200 years and return us to the country as it started, is daydreaming in my view.

Even if you don't agree with my term "as we go forward" - that is really all anyone can do unless there is a revolution and forceable takeover of the government.

We do have the democrat party that counters anything a conservative wants to do. This is the check and balance in our system now and there is nothing that will change that.

All that will be possible other than daydreaming is to support a candidate with as much conservatism as possible to get elected and start there. He, of course, will have to deal with the opposing democrats as everyone does and he may have to play politics to get anything done.

Then the next election, we search for the most conservative candidate we can get elected and continue our steps forward. The ideal would be to have so many in government that we could bring about radical change and temper the power of the socialistic, liberals.