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If only Republicans symbolized good as reliably as Democrats symbolize evil.

Although party labels are a good reference, they are not a reliable indicator of where a given politician stands.

I regret that my home state is an excellent example of this phenomenon. The Illinois Republican Party had become so corrupt that they are difficult to distinguish from the Democrats.

The Illinois Republicans had a good Conservative candidate running in the last primary, but machine politics put in the RINO candidate. Regrettably, this means that the governorship will fall to a Democrat this fall. Perhaps after four years of this Bolshevik, the Republicans will be ready for a real change, not just a change of party labels.

This November, I will disregard labels and vote for a Conservative named Cal Skinner who happens to be running on the Libertarian ticket. He may or may not have a chance. But, I do not consider this as doing nothing. I am voting my conscience. And, by doing so sending a message to the Republican Party that they can no longer count on Conservatives choosing them as the lesser of two evils. For the lesser of two evils is all too often evil in of itself.

Yes, corruption is rampant in the Democrat Party. But, why haven’t the Republicans distinguished themselves by dogged pursuit of convictions for those who accepted campaign cash as bribes from Indonesian power brokers, from Buddhist Monks, from corrupt corporate moguls and the myriad of criminal acts and practices of the Clintons and the Gores and their corrupt Democrat minions, etc.?

I don’t pose this as a rhetorical question, but as a literal one. Why aren’t Republicans fighting for what they supposedly believe? Where is the courage of the Republican Party? Only a few shining examples come to mind at the moment – Tancredo and McInnis, both coincidentally from the great state of Colorado.

If I am to be done in, I would rather it be done to me by an avowed enemy than by someone masquerading as my friend.

Indeed, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. And, the same can be said of political parties.

I didn’t leave the Republican Party. It left me.

Just like the F-117 stealth fighter, your comment labeled 117 is precisely the stealth truth post of the day and will more than likely be ignored by the majority of those who believe otherwise, or can't see the forest for the trees. The 200 year loss of liberty was a slow and incremental process just now being recognized by many. We who regard liberty as something more important than individual lives, are not going to reverse 200 years of incremental change in an instant.

I believe that principle will be the ruling order, or we are doomed to failure. The change will be just as gradual back to the ruling principles of the founding fathers as more and more people recognize the failings of the two party system, or should I say the failings of man himself in the situation where he must choose between ruling power, and party politics, as they relate to how our government should operate. The rule now is to maintain power without any thought for the country or its people, because the people who believe in party politics will pull the handle, and after that you can do pretty much anything you want.

Thus, man has done nothing, and in so doing has allowed evil to flourish whether dem or rep it matters not. No one doubts the open evil of the democrat party, there are still those willing to except the underlying lack of principle exibited by republicans in order to keep a party in power that cannot live up to its own platform. Men of principle, men of honor, and uncompromising giants who don't regard a political party as their meal, or power ticket are what's needed from those in public office, but that is obviously asking way too much.