"I think conservatives let our elected Republican officials off too easy these past years by tolerating an excessive growth of government that itself was symptomatic that there was a problem."
Hey, Star, what recourse do we have besides calling to complain, or contributing to CFG instead of the RNC? WHen those don't work, the only recourse left is to vote the folks who tolerated that excessive growth of government out.
I will be voting third party in races where RINOS and Rats are the only choices. Where I trust the GOP candidate to vote as a conservative American first and not a party hack Republican first, they will have my vote.
I urge you to have a little balance there. Purity is likely not going to be seen. But if they really appear to want to embrace conservatism (unlike the RINOs) we can still work with most of the sincere ones. The Senate is where the biggest hypocrites of all are of course, with Specter and McCain just being the tip of the iceberg. There are many others...a good example of the OBL being the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar, running for re-election in 2006:
He has been instrumental in the White House strategy of avoiding Congressional oversight of the SPP, the NAU, the LOST, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens under the Euphemism, Guest Workers, and much more.
Here he is meeting with one of the Hollywood OBL advocates, Angelina Jolie: