The dems' strategy seems clever, but cynical. They know they can rely on their own constituency to vote for a black male and/or a white female, no matter what they do or say. That leaves them free to woo the republican votes with carrots like reforming child custody legislation to consider men's rights, which is what Hillary is offering.

Moreover, the republican party has done more to turn the US into a communist totalitarian state than the democrats have. Our rights to privacy are gone: just gone. More wealth has been put back into the hands of the wealthy. We have very little or no voice. Large, government-like organizations like big oil, communications, medicine, real estate, insurance, banking and law are free to run roughshod over us. (Just be late for one credit card payment; I dare you.)
In the last four years I've seen TSA agents put my 80-year-old mom against the wall, spread eagle, and search her. I've been carded by cops for walking down the street at night in front of my house, fishing pole in hand. The US Supreme Court has crapped all over or Constitutional Rights at the behest of angry moms against everybody.

It's always in the name of law and order. Like DUI lawyer Lawrence Taylor says, "First they came for drunks, but I wasn't a drunk, so I didn't speak up . . .."

Meanwhile, during Clinton's presidency, the wealth was being redistributed. The US economy was creating millonaires at record rates. The lower and middle economic classes were getting rich.

If there's one thing wealthy people can't stand, it's poor people getting money. So when the republicans got back into power, they reversed all of that, and now I dare say the averge daily income is plummeting while prices--has anyone gone grocery shopping lately?--are leaping higher and higher.

No rights; power and wealth in the hands of the party elite; clamp-downs on freedom in the names of "law and order" and "national security": it's all right there, and the worst things are that a considerable percentage of the US population can't even speak the language; of those who can speak it, a considerable percentage can't read the language; of those who can read it the language, a considerable percentage get all their information from television and newspaper.

BOHICA! Don't worry: no need to be afraid. It's going to hurt, but it always does, and there's nothing anybody who can do something about it will do.

That was guaranteed when we abandoned the founding fathers' basically aristotelian model of government and adopted the platonic model.

By the way, I'm a very well educated, really bright conservative who's always voted repbulican across the board. But now . . . I think I'll expatriate myself to some island nation and get drunk because I don't have any kids.

This very well may be the year America suddenly understands why gun control laws are a bad idea. ...

There is hope.

Not to mention faith.

If the grass roots will ignite to vote or write in Huck, Mitt, or best Fred we can enjoy an old fashioned brokered convention whereby our delegates can duke out something (anything) better than Juan McCain.

Let the smoke-filled back rooms prevail!

Our own men (and even Fox News journalists) have experienced the faux 'torture' of waterboarding. Our government says we've only done it thrice. I say let's waterboard every bastard in Gitmo and see what else we can learn.

I resent the hell out my SS taxes contributions going to illegals.

I resent the hell out of not being able to contribute my own money to the candidate of my choice after a moment in time.

But... more than any other single issue--the socialist plot to promulgate climate change and carbon credits is the ultimate deal killer for me.

God gave us coal and oil and the ability to figure out how to use these fuels to create a dynamic economy. So-called 'progressives' want to reverse that. Up is down. These 'progressives' are Luddites. Remember--when asked for a show of hands--McCain's was first up.

Last and perhaps foremost, he seems to make some decisions in angry and personal reasoning. Very scary in a president.

Why are conservative pundits spending so much time bashing McCain (deservedly), but not coming out to support any particular candidate?? Just say it, Ann - RON PAUL is the answer to the party's crises! A true conservative, a genuinely honest person who cannot be bought & paid for or manipulated like a puppet on a string. C'mon, Ann, it's way past time for someone with your clout to keep bashing our "front runners" and focus on the positive by supporting someone!

B"H Ann, you have really out done yourself in the wit department, while hammering home some important points.

Excellent post!

The liberals may be to stupid to listen to you (although I have no doubt you're catching their attention these days).

I just hope the conservatives do.

A local radio "conservative" in Kansas City tied Valentine's Day to McCain in his daily message by saying that McCain is like the person you married, not perfect but good. Using that analogy, if McCain is like our spouse, then he is unfaithful. He has cheated on us before. In fact, has had a long affair. And he will be unfaithful again. It's time for a Divorce! McCain should have been kicked out of the party after the "Gang of Fourteen" or at least stripped of any important roles. Now we know why he wasn't.

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