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You couldn't be more right Miss Marple, but it doesn't matter. It's hard for people to see.

On domestic issues, President Bush is not a conservative dream. At best, he is a moderate, and he campaigned as a moderate ("compassionate conservative"). He campaigned on guest-workers and prescription drugs for seniors. He didn't lie, he didn't deceive. Maybe conservatives lied to themselves, and the biggest lie of all was telling themselves that it would be easy to counteract the 60 years of socialism that have been inflicted on this country.

But on foreign policy, Bush is absolutely the best conservatives can hope for right now, and again he is not perfect, but it would be a disaster to have anyone else. The War on Terror is REAL and he is the only one who will fight it. But if conservatives don't act like they believe it is real, how will they ever convince the rest of the country?

Bush is not going to move much more to the right than he is right now, unless he has strong reason to do so.

Conservatives must face this reality. If you want a more conservative president, you must wait until 2008, and then conservatives will have a hard battle on their hands because the country is probably going to be drifting left (because that's how the pendulum swings).

Conservatives have to take the Congress, that is the only hope. If you want more conservative justices, the repeal of CFR, a decrease in spending, to fight illegal immigration, take Congress. If you want to do anything about the quickly eroding social values of this country (Bush is an ally here, don't forget, unless you want this to turn into Rome), take control of your states.

Don't abandon the "big tent" Republican party, learn from the Socialists and TAKE IT OVER. This has to be done on a grass-roots level, starting with your mayors, your governors, your state legislatures. Your next President will probably be a governor. Wouldn't it be prudent to get more conservative governors who can be potential presidential candidates?

And ultimately, most importantly, conservatives must control Congress. This is how the Socialists did it. This is the only way to fight them. They are fighting amongst themselves, now is the time to STRIKE. Not fight amongst yourselves.