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Free Republic is not the place to go if you want to find rational conservatives who will actually make a difference in bringing this country back to where it needs to be.

Then why are you wasting everyone's time by posting here?

Your response is actually one of the things that I find really annoying about the level of discussion most people are capable of these days. In a rational discussion, one person states Position A. Then the next person either refutes position A or states Position B or both. Your approach, which is not unique by any stretch of the imagination, is more along the lines of: first person states position A, second person states position B, first person, upon seeing that someone disagrees with him, begins wailing and sobbing in the highest pseudo-Shakespearean drama-queen tradition about how people are so mean and stupid and why must the world be so beset with unrighteousness!!! Never in a million, trillion, bajillion years have you ever seen such desolation of the human spirit as you have just now, when person #2 disagreed with your position! Please come, Lord Jesus!

I don't mind a little passion in our discussions. In fact, I expect it, but acting out a Greek tragedy each time you run across a dissenting opinion is just a silly waste of time.

I live in Maine. Haven't and won't vote for Snowe or Collins. I used to express my wishes to them, ask them to defend their positions, etc., and was rewarded with mostly unresponsive gibberish for my efforts.

The GOP lives for power, and recent history (1990+) shows that the GOP is not serious about reducing the role and impact of government in our lives.