[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

What a crock. Government spending for : Faith Base Initiatives, expansion of Ed. Dept. (No child left behind), prescription drugs, massive increases in spending vs. GDP, bailouts galore. All under Bush. Fiscal conservatives? Spare me.

Your error is conflating Bush with social conservatives. Bush was not a conservative, he was a populist.

I'm a social conservative, and I didn't support a single one of the things you listed. Most of the rest of the social conservatives I know, both on FR and off, didn't either. Clearly, you're blowing smoke out of your orifices.

[Poison Pill]

I'm a social conservative, and I didn't support a single one of the things you listed. Most of the rest of the social conservatives I know, both on FR and off, didn't either.

It's hard to be the "backbone" of the party that controlled Congress and the Executive for so long and yet not have your fingerprints on any of the reckless behavior that happened.

You can call me names, say I'm blowing smoke, tell me you had nothing to do with the Bush years. Whatever. But I would think now that the budgetary house is burning down (in part because of the spending that occurred in the eight years prior to Obama) and that the obvious problem is continuous massive government spending, that you would have more important things to worry about than gays in the party.