[milagro]

I totally agree with you! And I think Perry has the best chance of beating Obama, and--more importantly--steering our great "ship of state" away from the "iceberg" the Left seems so hell-bent on sending it into.

And thanks for sharing your thoughts: they are well-reasoned and refreshingly sane!

[milagro]

Re: "...steering our great 'ship of state' away from the 'iceberg' the Left seems so hell-bent on sending it into."

OOPS! Grammatical correctness would require me to rephrase that:

"...steering our great 'ship of state' away from the 'iceberg' INTO which the Left seems so hell-bent on sending it."

But that just sounds weird! And Strunk and White's ELEMENTS OF STYLE--my "bible" for grammar and proper wording of phrases--prepositional and otherwise--would probably agree.