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Excellent post. Very well stated. I will vote republican in the next election but I will not volunteer to man the phones again or help with the mailings, etc, those days are over. It is hard to get excited knowing that when you win you lose. If you win you will get open borders with amnesty, more spending, a WH that will not stand up for itself, republican leadership that just wants to get along with Kennedy, et al. No fire it is gone, the fire that sent me to man the phones in 94, to picket in San Francisco in 2000, to volunteer in 2004...gone. I know now where the democrat that says his party left him is coming from. Maybe it is just as well to have the enemy you know in power rather than the friend that betrays you.

I'm with you--I'm just tired. I would happily support Bush even though he is not conservative, so long as the long-term prospects of conservatism improve. Two steps forward and one back, in the same fashion that liberalism took an old-fashioned American nation in 1932 and gradually feminized and socialized it, we can gradually restore individualism, respect for religion, common sense foreign policy based on national interest, constitutional government and all the things that got thrown out by the liberals. But if the thing we disagree about threatens the slim conservative majority forever, then we have to fight as hard as we can to prevent it from occurring. Electing Hillary isn't the answer. Voting for Democrats in '06 is not the answer. Right now, I don't know what is. A constitutional convention? Risky. A third party? Can you say President Clinton?

Kick out the RINOs in primaries where you can this spring, that's what I know we need to do now. We need to make sure the House stays strong to tell the Senate to go to hell. Maybe we can figure out something that gets these people to respond in the next few months. Lack of donations will certainly get their attention.