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For years voters who viewed their world through the lens of our societal moral bankruptcy have been whipped by fiscal cons, and defense cons, and told to, "shut up, hold their nose, and take it." With all the grace of an overly aggressive date values voters have been raped of their voice in election cycle after the next. It was cute when we got on board with President Bush; it was fine that we handed him the election in Ohio and thus the nation in 2004. But in 2008 we are supposed to let the talking heads, and "new media elites" tell us to ignore certain issues when we cast a ballot.

I don't agree with this. Small government conservatives have been told to shut up and take it just as surely as have social conservatives. Each group in our coalition gets some tiny bones thrown at us, and we're told to like it because the donk alternative would be worse.

Some social conservatives think the small-l libertarians are keeping them down; some small-l libertarians think the social conservatives are keeping them down. But in reality it's the power-hungry GOP establishment (who have no core beliefs except for power) taking ALL of us for granted. And that is why so many of us are not willing to compromise too much in the upcoming election -- we're fed up.

If the author and others are right these “value voters” are going to end up with hilary. It makes me ill to think of jimmy/slickwillie/huck becoming president.

Small government conservatives have been told to shut up and take it . . .

Exactly!!! They are the ones with the real complaint.