Welcome to Free Republic.
The "unreliable partners" you reference (meaning me) are a large enough component of the conservative movement and the Republican Party that you have no hope of winning without us. It sounds like more than anything you are interested in handing the entire government over to the Dems and the country to the likes of Bin Laden. To put it simply, I don't trust you, and I don't trust your motives.
I have no desire to return anyone to the 2nd Century; I don't know where that came from. I do believe that protecting innocent life is more important than a tax cut, which is not to say that tax cuts (along with private property rights, free enterprise, and all the rest) are not important.
I'll be voting for Bush, and if I lived in Illinois I'd volunteer and vote for Keyes.
I'll second that motion.
As to the rest of your comments? Very well said!