[PerConPat]

Maybe I should have voted for Algore instead or better still, just benched myself that election.

I don't think so...You did what millions of us saw as the only way open. Conservatives are always going to be fighting to reach consensus. Rugged individualists are not easily molded into a political force. But liberals, slaves to emotion, are easily herded in one direction, when all the chips are on the table. As it has often been said, trying to vector conservatives is like herding cats.

[dfwgator]

Conservatives are always going to be fighting to reach consensus. Rugged individualists are not easily molded into a political force.

Yep, that is always going to be our biggest problem.