Apparently Obama (according to Jesse Jackson) who does not like him very much) will abandon Israel,

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_o_jesse_knows_133450.htm

and this is something that should be made known in
in South Florida.

Your comment is right on Larry. Obama the greatest CON MAN of all times has NO intention of standing by Israel.

Val....The B/S spread by obama is so thick, one can smell it around the world.
Its too bad that we have so many self hating Americans who will vote for him and his socialistic policies.

Thank goodness we have a Republican candidate for the presidency who didn't propose at the debate last week that the federal government buy a majority of the bad mortgages incurred in the last several years. Thank goodness we have a president who didn't push for legislation to save these investment banks.

Oh wait.

Nationalization is here, my friends, in all its ugliness. We can deny the reality all we want. The only good thing is that, since we're bankrupt, we can't pay for more adventures overseas. McCain or Obama will inherit one hell of a mess -- a "socialist" mess. Conservatism accepts reality and deals with it, as your friend Henry has. If you guys really believed in the truth, you'd publish more posts in which you delineated what you would do in this new fiscal reality: the day the world changed.

Otherwise you guys are, as I told Alberto, preaching to a choir that's no longer listening. Tell us, the American people, what to do.

We.
Are.
So.
Screwed.

Dookie,

The correct solutions are the same as they always have been. Conservatism isn't broken, it's the so-called conservatives that are broken. Why the fuck do you think I was so upset when I realized McCain was going to be the GOP nominee?

The correct answers are smaller, less intrusive federal government in our lives, lower taxes, a strong national defense and accountability.

Period.

God bless you Henry for putting it so succintly. I sometimes try to give thinwhite duke some credit for his libertarian defense of gay rights (that power which is not expressly given to the government belongs to the individual - that is, the government cannot make a gay person a second class citizen), he is otherwise a big-government liberal. I have such anger towards John McCain - I don't think I've ever been this negative about the future before. His "moderateness" isn't even on social issues - where I truly believe the Republican Party would make huge gains - but on economic policy. We are doomed.

Each one of you made such valid points in your comments above. First we should wipe out many of the republicans who are in congress, because it's not the conservative belief or ideology, it's the members who are not practicing it. Reagan was the last good one who understood less gov't & supply side economics. Next, with the government nationalizing banks, even a couple of healthy banks such as Wells Fargo and B of A that did not need any capital injection, I can imagine what the next industries may be. I feel like true capitalism is on its way out and socialism is on the way in.

Cangrejo, I would be most pleased if you audited my posts since January and tell me where I've come across as a "big government liberal." Otherwise, I suggest you avoid the cliches that pass for political discourse. We live in a "big government" state; "liberal" and "conservative" labels as we understand it don't exist, if they ever did (if you're prepared to defend Reagan's non-existent small government credentials, I'm ready if you are). Each party will defend its version of bureaucracy. We'd be a lot more honest if we admitted, "I agree with President Bush's kind of big government conservatism as opposed to a President Obama's." Chimeras of small government comfort those who attend thinktank workshops. Liberals until Bill Clinton believed in a bureaucracy that helped the needy and ignored, for better or worse; conservatives until Bush pledged fealty to a bureaucracy that shored up national defense, for better or worse. Pick your battle.

Finally, don't lecture me about gay rights. Save your ammo for Amendment 2.