We need to start right now to develop a true conservative party, and start looking for conservative candidates to run in the elections that will come up in two years....and then keep going from there to the next presidential election.
Amen to that. It is funny that the conservatives say we can’t just try to be nice to terrorist in an attempt to get them to like us. They want us dead...period. Yet, the most of the “conservatives” inside the beltway are so damned scared of being conservative in an attempt to get the MSM and liberals to like them. We have seen this coming ever since ‘96. Personally, I think we need Newt back in the fold to a larger degree. Be conservative, talk conservative, vote conservative, and to hell with this “new tone” and “reaching across the isle” BS.
And there is a problem, not solely with military men and not with all of them, but common to them that they are Competent and Able To Get Things Done but, being military, they tend to believe that it is the strong competent man who must have his hand on the helm for things to work properly. That translates to active attempts to work the levers and push the buttons on the bridge to keep the economy functioning efficiently. Even if that sort of control worked it sucks in the perceived "experts" to be the helmsmen- Harvard guys, Bernankes, Paulsons, Goldman-Sachs guys- micromanagers and Keynesians all. Finance men, not economists. Economists tell you how things work. Keynesians and finance men think they have to make things work.