Because the 14th amendment has been twisted to grant anchor babies of illegal immigrants citizenship, you have tens of millions of children growing up in households where they have no loyalty to the United States and no understanding of our constitution. Therefore they are Democrats by definition.
Most of what now calls itself environmentalism is really a front for what you correctly called Socialistic Liberal Extremism. 90% of environmental legislation has nothing to do with Spotted Owls or fresh water mussels, it has everything to do with crippling capitalism.
Pop quiz: who was the only union member to be elected President? Ronald Reagen. Who was the only member of a union household in this election? Sarah Palin.
Economy and education should be a top priority. Unfortunately, the two candidates in this election were indistinguishable. The problems with both were too much government. The solutions to both are less government.
America is slowly becoming weaker. The thugs and dictators of the world smell blood (See Osama Bin Laden referring to us as a paper tiger after the Somolia debacle). Foreign policy and domestic policy are forever linked. If our foreign policy is weak our economic position will be also. If we have a weak domestic policy then we have no bargaining position in the world.
Thank you for your additions. There is truly a difference between those who like to think of themselves as conservatives and those who actually belive in the principles of the philosophy. One of the problems involved is the failure to buy-in to moral absolutes as a value-system. In my response I said what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong. Notice our new colleague employs situational ethics questioning the utility of a platform that includes pro-life re: abortion, euthanasia, etc. Politics tends to do that to people. The problem with America is that 60% has lost their way on such moral absolutes. It doesn’t matter if it is popular or politically expedient. It is about who we are and what is right.