[Final Authority]

You do admit and I recognize that GWB is not the ideal conservative candidate. Anti free speech is not conservative. Opening our borders to invaders from the south is not conservative. Allowing a $100 billion monthly trade imbalance seems hardly conservative. Does it to you?

I bet you are a Rush follower. I hear it every day. GOP good. Dems bad. Doesn't matter what the issue is, oh, I forgot, Rush does criticize GWBs handling of the criminal alien problem. I suspect that I am more traditional as a conservative than many on these threads. I am for conserving the US Constitution and by way of that, our Nation. I am not only for the conservation of a political party. BTW, is taking a point to an extreme a sign that I am not a true conservative? Yea, I know he can't do anything by fiat but his idea of law would. That is the point. He would call criminal aliens legal workers by a stroke of the pen. A person who refuses to uphold his oath of office is not a conseravtive in my estimation nor in the estimation of many Constitutionalists.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Those who think Bush not the "ideal" candidate are too far removed from what the electorate will accept to be of much use in winning elections. Politics is the art of compromise not the ramrodding of extreme views down the throats of the electorate. My views, your views and the views of most of the FR are far too conservative to be acceptable to the majority of voters. An "ideal" conservative acceptable to you would get 25% of the vote. Look at the Keyes campaign in Illinois for an example.

Free Trade is far more conservative than any competing economic theory. If by "anti-free speech" you are referring to the CFR I suggest your concern is based on fantasy not reality since the only speech even slightly curtailed is the speech of idiots too dumb to get around this stupid law. This was what I predicted all along and the SBV campaign proved me correct.

One cannot have a Trade Deficit with a floating exchange rate but the media is too stupid to explain this to the poor dumb rubes dependent upon it for economic knowledge. A Trade deficit only is a viable concept under Fixed exchange rate regimes using gold as an international standard of account. A study of International Finance could be of use here.

It may shock you to learn that only within the last half century has there been ANY concern about illegal immigration from Mexico. For over a century Mexicans wandered in and out at will with NO concern by the authorities. The current problem is one that is a result of the great wealth disparity between the countries and not easily solved.

Rush is ok but not generally too interesting since he went off the deep end over the Schiavo disaster.

You are mischaracterizing Bush's potential action wrt illegals which involves much more than the "stroke of a pen" and I doubt your understanding of the Constitution is that great given the mistaken nature of your reasoning and substitution of and use of rhetoric rather than reasoned analysis of what is possible given the state of the American voter.

Conservative in no way means "One who ignores the Possible and holds out for the Impossible." It is also important to realize that our enemies understand very well who is or is not conservative. Thus, their insane hatred of Bush is sufficient proof that he is a Stone Conservative.