Guys...please tell me you are not thinking about sitting out this election? Doing so would be a HUGE mistake.
Yes...the Republicans are losing touch...but seriously...do you want to see Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the house? You think its bad now? OY!
I say we re-elect them then start a letter writing and email campaign the likes of which havent been seen letting our representatives know what WE THE PEOPLE WANT!
The 10th amendment says it all 
I'm really wondering who exactly is the dufus here. I think the mistake you are making is assuming all republicans are just as 'conservative' in the same way as you are.,,,and have the same priorities.
If the overarching issue to you is small government, and everything else is secondary, then come out and say it.
I'm a Republican too and the overarching issue to me, now, is the war. If the war is not a priority for you, at least admit it.
Liberalism: Nope, no intention of sitting this election out, just saying that I'd like to see our "conservative" government be a little more conservative.
Syl: I have any number of priorities, and the war is certainly among them, but as GR said, that can also be used as a stick to get folks to accept things they don't like and that can only work for a little bit.
I said what I meant. A lot of conservatives feel this administration is at best right-liberal, I do, and we'd like to see a more conservative agenda.
My name is not dufus. It is Terrye.
I was a Democrat for many years and Bush is the first Republican I voted for. I no longer consider myself a Democrat at all.
I voted for him inspite of a lot of people that I don't much like. Now if I can do that then maybe you need to stop calling people on your side of the aisle dufus and give us some reason not to think you are just a big cry baby.
BTW I forgot to mention that people like you do not represent a majority in this country. The only reason you have come as close as you have to political power is that people like me voted Republican. If you get just what you think you want, you will lose and the Demcorats will win. So maybe you ought to stop and consider the fact that you are taking the rest of us for granted.
Professor Reynolds is a college Professor. He has tenure no doubt. And right now he is sitting there doing his "if only they had done as I instructed them" list. Well I have an idea, why don't people like Glenn just run for office themselves and then they can do this stuff rather than just second guess everyone else who does.
Now if you want to alienate people like me and tell us not to be in your party and call us names, if you only want the purest of the libertarians then prepared to never do better than Ross Perot.
And learn how to read, I said poised for flight, not poised for a fight. dumbass.
What is so wrong about complaining about perceived political missteps. What is wrong about pointing out the wrongs in your own party. Most of those who disagree on the immigration issue with the president will most likely still vote Republican in the midterm election.
People will still vote for the lesser of two evils, even if they strongly disagree with the Republican elites. So to tell the Republican critics to "stop whining and moaning" is condescending. If people disagree with the president or the Republican establishment, they should say so. To refer to these disagreements as "tantrums" is to trivialize them as actions of a two-year-old. Demonizing your opponents unfairly helps no one.
In the midterm elections, people should vote for the better candidate (whether Democrat or Republican). Merit should be the only qualifier, not political affiliation.
Terrye, I don't remember seeing anything in the article that asked you to leave the party. However, I do agree that name-calling is not a good idea. But, you did that in your comment. So, you have no room to talk.
Spare me you little coward. You misread my comment and then you slithered off and made some nasty little remark about it. When I call you a dubass or a coward I don't do it behind your back.
So doofus Terrye was a Democrat for many years but now insists on keeping the GOP a RINO party. How dare the people who've been keeping the GOP in business all these years ask that Republicans in office occasionally do something conservative. And who do these American citizens think they are questioning politicians? Don't they know they are supposed to send the checks, do the canvassing then shut their mouths as soon as the election is over? Apparently representative government is meant to be symbolic only.
Terrye must be one of those idiot Bush-worshippers the liberals are always talking about.
Going by the tone of Terrye's posts here and at CQ these Democrats-turned-Republicans aren't very tolerant of dissent. Old marxist habits perhaps?
Jake - the WOT has been a flop because of the idiot chimp. He supports illegal immigration for the same reason he thought Iraqis would turn in to Americans. To him political ideologies are more powerful than historically evolved nations.
the best thing that could happen to the democrats is a midterm victory for the reps. Bush wont change any of his failed policies in fact he wont change any of his policies period. Congress and the senate will remain his rubber stamp because they will see him as a deliverer of elections but the next election will deliver unto the democrats all 3 levels of the government. Bush is a complete and utter failure as a president just accept that and use your congress and senate to change the policy with out him and maybe just maybe you will survive 2008
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