[Eagle of Liberty]

In any case, it was ssumed that one would govern for everyone and not just for narrow, parochial party interests.

You are definitely going to need to expand on your post. Conservative values, those values which John McCain has abandoned, have been proven to lead to greater freedoms, while those positions that Senator McCain is speaking about most certainly appeal to narrow party interests. Only problem is that his positions appeal to the wrong party.

[shrinkermd]

Well let us see, on FR “conservative values” include kicking the 12 million illegals back to Mexico, dispensing with McCain-Feingold and, oh yes, we simply have to agree that there is no such thing as climate change secondary to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Otherwise McCain has an 83% lifetime ACU rating. The things listed above should have resulted in either Tancredo, Hunter or Romney being the nominee. I know you and Limbaugh believe that it was those devious, dratted moderates who interfered with the primary and selected McCain. If you believe that, all you have said is there were more people voted for McCain than voted for anyone else.

Taking a longer look—even Rush Limbaugh agrees the 12 million cannot be deported back to Mexico (a caller asked him); hence, regardless of who is elected expect some sort of bill solving this. Probably much like Reagan's bill that gave amnesty to 3.5 million illegals. The trade off will be some sort of required identity card for all non native born Americans.

Also taking a longer look—going from 280 ppm to 380 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide is going to prompt some sort of action by Congress and the next President.

So, both of these issues will have beginning resolution regardless of who is elected.

That leaves us with the problem why have Republicans done so poorly at the polls. The answer is quite simple. For the last ten years the average cost of gasoline out of a dollar of consumer spending has been 4-5 cents. It is now 11 cents and when people are talking about hard times they are basically referencing this whether they know it or not. The lumpen proletariat are being told either there is some monstrous hedge fund conspiracy or the oil companies are ripping them off. In actual fact, India, China and other developing regions are beginning to use more and more gasoline while we have in the last ten years lost 30% of our domestic production.

So there is no tooth fairy! No politician—even a “real conservative” aka Rush Limbaugh—is going to come in and wage a magic wand and make things better. The future will prove this regardless of who wins the Presidency.

In the meantime, regards.