[expatguy]

You left one out.

How do you propose we deal with the enemy within?

[mek1959]

expatguy, you're dead-on. The real battle is indeed a "clash of civilizations"; liberal ideology vs. conservative ideology and there can be no wider a gap. This is going to be a war of ideas instead of the largely economic war of the 1860's. Make no mistake though, it is a war, though not using weapons. Those who are uncomfortable speaking of it in these terms had better get used to another round of "compassionate conservatism" or "less Big Government". Heaven help us if that's how conservatism get defined.

[Jim Robinson]

"How do you propose we deal with the enemy within?"

Outshout, outvote and send them packing.