You're too kind, my dear. (I can hardly stop laughing)
Uh, the two major parties have left themselves open to true constitutional correction on so many issues as to dwarf whatever stinking little agendas (green/statist) they might try to keep on the front burner of the media stove. (BTW, I've enjoyed your historical insights to most things- not that I'm trying to k*ss ass, but it is my feeling that you're a major credit to FR in this regard).
Back to the stove thingy: today's liberal and psuedo conservative would seriously feel the heat were they to face-off with someone well versed in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. You agree? Fish in a barrel.
The fact that it can't or won't happen ought to be very telling, don't you think?
The FFs, if you recall, set up this government and the way in which we select our representaives, at every level, with NO party affiliation ; at first. After the disasterous election, of our second president, with a V.P, from what today we'd call a different party, that was the end of that. The FFs considered a parlimentarian system ( the only kind that coallition geovernace and a multitude of parties can exist in )to be an anthema. The Constitution is NOT a " living " document, as the Liberals claim. What it IS, though, is something that can be and has been added to and also additions taken away from. Since you appear to be in favor of what the FFs said / did / wrote, just remeber that they were fallible men and you can't claim that YOU know exactly what they would think of their counter parts today, nor the situations we now face, in light of the 18th century writings.
Is the two party system perfect ? It sure beats the other alturnatives. Are some elected officials , today, ignoring the Constitution ? Of course they are; but then, that's nothing new. Thomas Jefferson, to name but one FF, did so too, when he was president.
At one point of our lives, or another, most people who are passionately interested in politics, think that they can do far better than anyone who has been elected is doing. That's sheer hubris, on your part, in this context ! Don't laugh, take a deep breathe, and take what I've already said quite seriously. I'm familiar with you and your posts. You couldn't " kick ass ", in a political debate with me ; why suppose that you could do so with Condi Rice, Rumsfeld, President Bush, or name your opponent ? RINO ? Which RINO ? Dem ? Well, that might be another matter; though I doubt it. They got elected. Some actually believed what they said. You haven't charm enough to countermand that
What's REALLY telling, is that you have such a gigantic image of yourself. :-)