[DoughtyOne]

I would agree with that.

I do get quite uncomfortable with the idea that conservatives can do whatever the hell they like just because they are in a liberal state though. How can we expect those states to move toward the right, if our side is going to implement the liberal’s pipe dreams for them?

And after all, that’s exactly the dilema we face if either of these men become president.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I do get quite uncomfortable with the idea that conservatives can do whatever the hell they like just because they are in a liberal state though. How can we expect those states to move toward the right, if our side is going to implement the liberal’s pipe dreams for them?

Valid point. My hope with Romney is, if we stand behind him, it will make him stronger. He's speaking our language (for the most part), and unless he wants to be a one-termer, he's going to have to follow through.

McCain is making a concerted effort to win this without us (the photo-op in Cali yesterday was definitive proof of that). He wants to marginalize the base, kill conservatism as a viable political philosophy and usher in an age of "post-partisnaship" (a euphemism for essentially a one-party system). Where Romney is absolutely questionable, McCain is downright hostile.

Bottom line: this election sucks rocks.