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Hmmm...sounds like this thread is a sort of a rabbit hunt all its own. :)

Make no mistake about it...any one of these Democratic candidates will be the most Liberal, destructive President that this country has ever seen.

I agree with that, but sadly, so would someone like Rudy IMHO. McCain I fear would only marginally better. I pray, and intend to work hard, for a Hunter, a Thompson, even Mitt over either of those two. We'll see where the dust settles.

One thing is for sure, and has been witnessed again and again throughout our history as a nation. It is what Patrick Henry said, and I believe, after (and only after) we do all in our power, and show by our hard work that we are willing to sacrifice for these unbelievable blessings of liberty that we enjoy, then does Patrick Henrey's statement also come into play:

...it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

...If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.

Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Just my thoughts on the matter.