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No, it's going to take a much larger majority. We need a landslide for Bush and a much larger margin in both the house and senate. Give the Republicans a mandate to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. As long as we have a chance of a large block of Demos to join the Republican moderates we'll never get anywhere. The Republicans must have the majority so they can control the committees and the agenda and they must have a large enough majority to override the moderates.

I am in complete agreement with Jim. We have to have a sizeable majority to do any good.
Brad

No, it's going to take a much larger majority. We need a landslide for Bush and a much larger margin in both the house and senate. Give the Republicans a mandate to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. As long as we have a chance of a large block of Demos to join the Republican moderates we'll never get anywhere. The Republicans must have the majority so they can control the committees and the agenda and they must have a large enough majority to override the moderates.

That sums it all up very nicely. No matter who becomes the president, he will either attempt govern the country within the range of political realities or he will not govern at all. If we want to effect political change in this country, we just can't ignore the need to build public and political support for the change. There is no magical shortcut. If Ron Paul (or Pat Buchanan or Alan Keyes or anyone) were to somehow wake up tomorrow as president (and everything else was unchanged), he would either begin governing differently than he now speaks or he wouldn't begin governing at all.

So let's elect ourselves some better representatives this November!

"Give the Republicans a mandate to dismantle the federal bureaucracy."

We did and they squandered it.

After their embarrassing failures, they are courting Democrats because they know some conservatives will seek retribution and the rest have no where else to go. They think they have a free shot of chasing the left or the middle with little or nothing to lose from the Conservative base. And if everybody listens to what you are saying, the Republicans will be right. And perhaps the larger tragedy, is regardless of whether the Republicans win or lose this November won't matter to the conservative agenda. Since Republicans are running on a socialist's platform, we will be the losers regardless of who is in office.