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The Republican Party is still the predominant conservative party in American politics. George W. Bush, at best, is nominally conservative. And he's conservative in his values, not necessarily in his political ideology.

Why should conservatives vote Republican? Consider the alternative (and there's only one).

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The Republican Party is still the predominant conservative party in American politics.

DuuuuuuuuH! Let's see the predominant parties are the democrats and the republicans. Now which is more conservative the socialists or the socialist lites?

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Why should conservatives vote Republican? Consider the alternative (and there's only one).

Read the article. The Republicans are just as much a Big Government party as the Democrats. Maybe more so. It is not "the predominant conservative party in America" because it is no longer conservative in any way.

The premise of teh two-party system is that the two parties provide meaningful alternatives. When that premise is violated, then the two-party system is not doing the job it is supposed to do and it is time to seek alternatives.

Yet under Republican governance, the size, cost, and iintrusiveness of government grows even faster than under Democrats! That is no alternative.

What ever happened to "a choice, not an echo"?

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Maybe it's time for another option. There are more than two parties out there, and if a ton of people start voting for more than Rs and Ds, we can make it viable.