[College Repub]

Who said you had to be a conservative to be (or vote) Republican? But if you are a conservative, I'd imagine you would rather see a Republican in power than a Democrat. If you honestly can not see any differences and choose not to vote "R" then you have no right to complain when dems retain the Senate and tie up conservative judge nominations!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Please list all the laws passed that promote Republican causes. Bush SIGNED all of those bills into law, forever putting his official seal of approval on all of them.

I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.

[Sabertooth]

If you honestly can not see any differences and choose not to vote "R" then you have no right to complain when dems retain the Senate and tie up conservative judge nominations!

If the GOP leadership once again persues a lukewarm strategy that has no appeal to some conservative voters, and elections are lost as a result, you and that leadership you support have no cause to complain if the Dems retain the Senate and tie up judicial nominations.

[gunshy]

The one thing that you have overlooked is that half of the republicans in congress are nothing more than liberal democrats. Are you old enough to remember how the republicans in the senate rolled over on the impeachment trial? Those same republicans are still in the senate.

[WhiteGuy]

If you honestly can not see any differences and choose not to vote "R" then you have no right to complain when dems retain the Senate and tie up conservative judge nominations!

Without regard to one's "right to complain", come election night, the difference between a democrat controlled congress and a republican controlled congress will be determined by trust (or lack of it) and faith (or lack of it).

Thinking republicans and independents must decide for themselves if they trust the candidates, whose names are followed by an "R".

Do these "likely voters" have faith that their candidates, once elected will vote and act in a conservative fashion?

Is there any real guarantee that only conservative judges will be nominated?

Do we really believe that gwb and the senate will do what is right for the country at the expense of "popular" big-government programs?

If "strict constructionist" judges would likely end the out-of control spending of congress and neuter the power of the elected, can we really have confidence that the people who gave us the "US Patriot" bill will do the right thing?

Based on the spending record, of our current leaders, and their willingness to abandon the rights and freedoms so many brave souls have died for, I would suggest that many "R" candidates will fail to inspire the conservative and freedom loving to vote.

Is it too late?