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The problem is, idiots like Buckley don’t see themselves as problematic at all. They are so adrift on moral issues, that they can honestly judge Obama to be the best choice.

Others may disagree with me, but this dynamic seems to be playing out across the top of the Republican party. With very few exceptions, the leadership simply doesn’t have ANY contact with real world Conservative reality these days.

I’m not here to bad mouth McCain, even though folks know what my thoughts on him are. What I would like to address is the problem John has with quick biting criticism of leftists. His instincts are to praise them as good people, then eek out a rather lame criticism of their views. He just doesn’t have it in him to go for the throat.

I’m not saying this to get people to take a pass on him. I am saying it because you get fewer people to vote for you, if you can’t pin a guy as bad as Obama down when you have the chance.

McCain hurts himself more than I would like to see at this point. He has spent decades chumming it up with the wrong people. And now he has a very difficult time recognizing them for what they are. And if he can’t, then he can’t explain to the public why they are wrong and he is right.

To John, Wright isn’t all that big a problem. He doesn’t even know about the brutal dictator thug from Kenya, and Obama’s support for him. Obama denied any contact with Acorn, went into a full description of his association with them and left out the $830,000 paid to them earlier this year, and John didn’t even correct him just after he said it.

We wonder why our views don’t sell. Our views aren’t being sold folks. Palin is a saleswoman. McCain, not so much. He may eek this out, but he IS hurting our cause.

If moderates like Buckley and Parker want to leave the GOP (they are not conservatives), I'm all for it. It would hurt the party in the short-term. But in the long run, the GOP might actually be able to produce a coherant, American vision that will attact some of the more like-minded independents or disenfranchised Democrats to make up for the loss of the moderates. Right now, the moderates stand in the way of any real change in Washington. The only change, such as it is, is more left-leaning policies and ever bigger government. Moderates don't seem to have a problem with this, so they are mostly closet Democrats. They may as well switch parties and make it official.

"While they claim to want a true conservative realignment of the Republican Party, they’re retooling their writing as though they expect the opposite to happen. It appears as though most of these longtime conservative pundits believe that a liberal realignment is what’s going to occur, and these conservative pundits are simply making a phased withdrawal away from their longtime readership towards a left-leaning future readership."