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"The very last thing we or the country needs is team building that includes Democrats. I don't want any compromises with Democrats. We have been compromising for 70 years. Now it is time to crush them in total defeat or completely block all Congressional or governmental activity. Shut the sucker down. I would double all of the salaries of all of Congress and of every bureaucrat in the adminstration or government if they would go home and never come back. It would be the biggest bargain for the taxpayer in US history.
No more compromises.

No more bipartisanship.

Somehow, I don't think that's what the founders had in mind. Unless we decide to disolve the constitution and foster a dictatorship, Compromise is here to stay. It's the will of the majority that decides in this Republic. In order to advance our conservative beliefs we have to garner the support of the majority first, then we have to maintain that support or we lose that majority, and sensible compromise with the minority in these tightly divided times is the only way it will happen.

"It's the will of the majority that decides in this Republic."

No! No! No! A thousand times NO!

You are confusing a democracy with our Constitutional Republic. That is the root of the problem. The Democrats were able to subvert the Constitution through Unconstitutional laws and corrupt justices who sustained them. The beauty of the Constitution is that it took an amendment to take away our individual rights or to grant power to the federal government. It is very difficult to amend the Constitution. So difficult in fact, there is some controversy over the legalities of some the amendments passed afer the Bill of Rights. For example, there is no Constitutional authority for Congress to have enacted Social Security. And Roosevelt and the Democrats knew they could have not gotten the Constitution amended to allow it. So they did an end run around the Constitution. Virtually all of the socialists' agenda has been an end run around the Constitution. Franklin anticipated this problem. When asked what kind of government the framers had given the country, he tersely replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."

As for your other question about the who to replace Bush. I answered that in another reply somewhere else on the thread. I think there are several conservatives who have sought the nomination that would be superior to Bush. Forbes and Keyes are easy choices. They were unable to defeat Bush in the primaries in the last go around. Who knows, conditions might be more favorable for them in 2004. Ron Paul is the best of the current crop of Republican office holders. Gramm might have made a wonderful president. But my personal choice is Rush. Rush, if he will try, can beat Bush for the nomination. And Rush would blow the Democrats not out the water, but off the planet. I hope that I am wrong, but it is my opinion that the United States is doomed. And as hopeless as it may sound, I think Rush may be the only man who can save it. Excellence in Golf can provide him the financial means.