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I appreciate your thoughtful response, and I can’t find much to disagree with.

Regarding your other response about your pessimism... I have always been an optimist. Perhaps that is a symptom of MY age.

Though I agree philosophically with most conservative ideals, and ideologically with many conservative politicians, I cannot bring myself to believe most liberals have evil or treasonous intentions.

Thus I often find myself posting “yes, but...” responses on FreeRepublic. Hopefully they’ll continue to be tolerated and not get me banned :).

I like to think that I’m at least giving perspective. We often chastise liberals for disregarding truth and reason, and I have cause to believe some conservatives have succumbed to the same since Obama was elected. You might call it Obama-derangement syndrome.

Regarding the matter at hand.. I will give you 3:1 odds that no significant number of new Haitians will be brought to the U.S. intentionally by the government.

Our government is currently flying planes over Haiti broadcasting radio messages from Haiti’s ambassador to the U.S. His message? “Do not attempt passage to the U.S. by sea. You will likely die, and if you do not, you will be sent back.”

Napolitano and others have given the same message in media outlets. I don’t think it’s irresponsible to prepare for the possibility of a mass migration. I also don’t think such preparation betrays the intention of the Obama administration to effect such a migration intentionally. But if the relief operation succeeds, it shouldn’t be an issue.

Some FReepers are talking about millions of new Haitian Democrats in Florida... What planet are they living on? If they came, they wouldn’t be able to vote, and the Floridians impacted by such a nightmare would burn the White House to the ground.