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The shift is no surprise. With the Republican party out of public favor these days, everyone knew McCain would use the convention to emphasize his bipartisan credentials.

Unfortunately, the specter of George Walker Bush is the example of conservatism. Ronald Reagan strived and with determined patriotism made the word "conservative" respectable to ALL Americans; George Bush was handed that Reagan treasure and wasted it with an empty veto pen for pork, trashed it with an incompetent former Secretary of Defense, stomped on it with foolish loyalty to Russian dictators and made "conservative" a nasty word. Our hope is that McCain will once-again restore its honored place

What’s funny is that all the things Bush is criticized for are Big Government follies:

Spending, pork, and unbalanced budgets (doesn’t it make you laugh to hear liberals criticize runaway spending?)

The War/Alienation of Allies (since the sixties, war has been defended by conservatives. But it was not so long ago that Democrats were the war party, see: Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson)

No Child Left Behind/Medicare (suddenly liberals realize the inefficiency and counter-productiveness of buearacracy)

Harriet Meyers, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld (inexperienced leaders, sound familiar, Barrack?)

He gets flack about truly conservative positions on tax cuts and Social Security, but liberals must attack everything conservatives do, be it Big or Limited Government.

My notion is that everyone, no matter how libertarian, is convinced to turn Big Government when they fall into power. The temptation is too great. Even Jefferson submitted, McCain and Bush are certainly no Jeffersons.

Our hope is that McCain will once-again restore its [Conservatism's] honored place

I cannot believe that hope is even vaguely associated with John Judas McCain. Whatever would lead you to believe that a Soros funded candidate, friend to the most heathen of the liberal left (Kennedy, Clinton, Kerry, Lieberman, Feingold), would be the one to restore Conservatism to it's honored place?

Did you catch Palin’s dig on Bush as she mentioned how the she used the veto pen and it worked? Failure to use the veto power and instead signing everything sent to him for most of his presidency was one of Bush’s biggest failings.