[Charlotte Corday]

If you have a viable (electable) alternative, please let us know.

Ah, the question of questions....

Most Freepers who devotedly support GWB seem to have the idea that "if we can only slow down the drift to the left for a few years, it'll buy us some time to make the case for real conservatism to the American people".

You may or may not agree with this point of view. Personally I think it's a crock of hog droppings.

If we don't significantly reverse the drift to the left in the next twenty years, I think that the America we love is a goner. And I have almost no confidence left that the GOP intends to reverse any such thing.

And maybe that means there is no electable alternative, and the country is already on the road to hell. But I won't help push, that's for sure.

[Jim Robinson]

Well, I too am hoping we can reverse the trend within the next twenty years or so, but I know that that will not happen as long as we allow the Democrats to control the agenda. We need to replace as many Democrats as we possibly can and to bring up as many new young conservative candidates as possible into the Republican Party. And, yes, it probably will take a generation or more to get the job done. As far as that goes, the job never ends.