Your post reminds me of the old joke that was told about the 1964 election...somebody was quoting a voter who said "they told me that if I voted for Goldwater in '64,there would be 500,000 troops in Vietnam and rioting in the streets...damned if they weren't right!!"Bush is NO conservative....He has NOT earned re-election and even if Kerry wins, there is no reason why a SUPPOSEDLY "conservative" GOP who controls the house and senate could not keep him at bay...The Republican Party will NEVER learn to be conservative unless it is punished into doing so....
I agree. The GOP does not represent many of my values anymore. They are now big gov, big corp, etc. They do have a few low-cost platform items like pro-life, just so they can call themselves conservative.
Clinton, pulled a similar bait and switch on the Gays because he knew they would follow him no matter what.
Such tactics will not work with me...the GOP needs to radically change or just fade away.
As for the SCOTUS, the today's GOP does not have the balls to push a conservative justice through anyhow...
(I live in a solid blue state so my vote won't impact the president - but I will avoid voting for most local GOP candidates as well)