I like it.
Actually, it scares me...
The problem is that we no longer live in a very conservative country. The old institutions that held society together since time began, which is to say, family, friends, neighbors, are not held in high regard. The idea that people should look after themselves and one another without government intruding is simply not a part of the national dialogue. No one is going for it, and therein lies the rub. If you can't sell it to your neighbor, you aren't going to sell it nationally.
But while we fight that battle out on the homefront, we can't afford to lose it all to the globalists. It is humorous to hear people attacking the US as the supreme globalist, while complaining that we are acting unilaterally. The globalists are the ones who want us to submit to global institutions that none of us elected, which care nothing for the principles we care about.
We are fighting a two front battle. The muslim nutcases are a real foe, and if they manage to get at us they can do real harm. But the other part of the battle is against the people that want us to submit to a supranational authority that none of us elected. Hence Kyoto, hence ICC, UN, and on and on. Hence the belief that US troops under US command are a threat to the world, whereas the same US troops under UN command are suddenly transformed into a positive. The people who espouse this are people who have forgotten, or never knew, what we stand for.
Which is fine, we don't have to elect them into power.
I am disturbed at the direction things are going domestically. Bush has been ineffective in turning things around on that front. But its a democracy, you can't force people to go where they don't want to go, tragic as that may be. But we live to fight another day, if we manage to carry the day on the other fronts, against the people who want to do us harm, and the people that want to rule us without our consent. Those two fronts GW has handled well, and if we lose on those two the third is settled without firing a shot.
So I will hang with him. You have to be realistic, we work with imperfect human tools. Just as a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush, in the current environment, and I heartily encourage all Democrats to vote their conscience and vote Nader, a conservative voter sitting home this November is a vote for the ICC, and Kyoto, and Kofi Annan. And Chirac, and the Belgian judges salivating at the possibility of putting US servicemen on trial.