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Many excellent points.

Certainly the Libertarians can't claim the taxing & spending issue as their own. However, in calling to light the bipartisan nature of tax & spend, big government types, clearly they're doing us all a favor.

Pork is pork, be it Democrat pork or Republican. Time to face up to the fact that BOTH parties are addicted.

Thanks. The Federal Reserve's role in the economy and Congressional roles are one matter. My primary objective was to get folks to realize that when Buchanan and radical Left strategists on the Dem side, who talk openly (in print) of using immigration, abortion, etc. to marginalize American conservative populations in a democratic system -- they are thinking LONG-TERM (with the Left looking to win the war with a permanent electoral lock on the Federal government starting in 2008-2012). Republican leaders today seem deliberately to ignore their own party's future. The punch line is perhaps how little is spent by the RP organizing on campuses, while the broad Left concentrates huge resources on those audiences (foundation after left-wing foundation subsidies "Peace and Justice Studies Programs," for example). And yet the RP and conservative foundations out-scale DEM and other left-wing parties/foundations combined every year.

Effective Party strategy is about concentrating resources and picking the right battles (policy issues). While the Republicans were riding the post-1960s conservative wave through the 1994 Republican revolution (before the immigration tidal wave overwhelmed that secular trend), they could afford to be short-sighted. Today, we are at a historical turning point in our Republic -- the GOP is at its peak thanks to the Iraq war issue (after fumbling the ball in 1996-1998), and had better start thinking/acting longer-term or we are all going to suffer in the next 2 decades. The tumble from that summit could be steep and dangerous, if they are not careful. And yet it is precisely when they reach the summit that they SHOULD look out far into the future.