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Please--do you really think that we conservatives would do better with a democrat president?

With a Democrat-controlled Congress? No. With a Republican-controlled Congress? In light of Bush's boneheaded leftward course, yes. That's the whole point of my essay. Did you read any of it beyond the headline?

You need to carefully think this through. Let the lib Dems knee-jerk their way to an answer. Conservatives ought to have better sense. Bottom line: any liberal Democrat will have a terrible time working with a Republican-controlled Congress.

The ldeal solution is to have a consistently conservative president leading a Republican-controlled Congress in 2004. Unfortunately, Bush has decided that consistent conservatism on his part is either optional or wrongheaded, which has created the current strained state of affairs.

I am prepared for a Bush defeat. With intelligent commitment and consistent dedication to the task at hand, conservatives can not only survive a Kerry adminstration and its almost certain gridlock-they can come out of it far ahead of where they would be had Bush finished a second term.

Lastly, I firmly believe for reasons set forth in my essay that Hillary's best chances of winning in 2008 hinge on an unrepentant George W. Bush winning in 2004. Do you want that?

What makes you think that Hillary and Kerry are not the same re: their politics? Both of them are 180 degrees from Bush.

Personally if Guiliani or Jeb Bush run for president I would be quite happy. Never would want a democrat ever again in office of the presidency. Too much of my future, my children's future rely on whom the president is. For me, give me a president who loves God, defends my country, spends on defense, is opposed to abortion, is for conservative judges and chief justice, who lowers taxes and is for marriage. vouchers for schools, social security and medicare reform, and illegal alien reform.

None of the democrats comes close to my core conservative views. Kevin, I did not wake up one day and say I was a republican. My core beliefs have fit into what I consider the republican party. And I will vote for a conservative person who shares my views --and that for me is President Bush.