Ma'am; ... Do you find such labels as conservative and liberal enlightening, useful, or empowering??? I think the conservatives have a great advantage in the label game because who isn't conservative??? If you find a person starving to death, they would rather hold the misery they have than embrace some unknown evil or uncertain future, so it is hardly a fair contest to put up a conservative against a liberal... We are all conservatives... I am a revolutionary because I consider it a conservative value in a country formed out of revolution... But that is a tough sell where people in their souls fear change, as all human beings are want to do... Consider this: If Mr. Obama and the Democrats run this country fairly and intelligently, in four years they will be the choice of conservatives because any change will then have to be sold to the conservative people who hate change.... Rather than endure that contest fairly; sabotage the presidency... use every bit of power remaining to the republican party to resist all change, to abuse the democrats for any mis-step, and spread mis information and abuse of the Liberals far and wide... It may be a pyrhic victory you will achieve, but sooner or later the inability of government to actually forestall ruin will run out the welcome mat for the republicans... The question is, do you thinksociety works just because it works for you... I mean, clearly it butters your bread, but do you think this government thing works for people??? You call yourself conservative because that is your guiding ideology... Another calls himself liberal because that is his guiding ideology... Where is our common ideology??? What would it be if we could name it??? Is it freedom and justice for all??? Perhaps the conservatives follow freedom into excess, and the liberals follow justice into the bar... But as the ship of state tacks into a squall line no one seems aware of the reef and the rocks beyond... It would be good, and even healthy, if the whole people could find a way of talking out our differences and framing them in human terms... We all know, or think we know where our self interest lies, but our individual goals really need the support of the whole population... And you see that support, and agreement which makes nations out of individuals is wanting... So, rather than trying to be a bull horn of conservative people, why not talk as a person to a person, as a representative of humanity to humanity, claiming no more than equal rights... It is a problem in this land that we define rights as property and property as a right... Niether is exactly true, and each statement denies the essentials of rights to all people... As a conservative, you have nothing in common with myself as a human being... Your movement is a fight for power, and that power has been misused... Nothing will prove this better than the election of Mr. Obama, because it would not be possible if conservatism did not abuse people of their rights, and mislead the country... Join the human race... Pick up the dusty, trampled on standard of humanity which has always been our own, and hold it skyward... This society will work for all, or it is a dead ideology, like conservatism itself... Thanks...Sweeney

This piece is probably one of the numerous reasons you all will lose (hopefully). You all keep assuming that the ONLY reason that republicans are behind now, and the conservative movement has lost all steam is because of the Bush years. It's a big factor, but not the biggest. It's called changing demographics. Your philosophy is old, and thinking that you all should move more back to the right in order to get the people behind you again is ridiculous and unrealistic.