Conservatives do not hold to a single “leader” as defined by liberal propaganda machines. Most conservatives actually define themselves as leaders and follow their faith, convictions, principles and have discernment on the issues, thus God is the leader of the conservatives. Loving our enemy is one principle that we hold to that most liberals sadly, do not.

Wall Street Journal
Under the previous administration (G.W. Bush)

US Gross domestic Product Grew 2.2% from 2001-2008
US Economy is 19% larger then the one Bush inherited from Clinton
US Employment (U.S. Unemployment office)
2001-2007 average unemployment 4.7%
5.2% was the average on President Clintons watch
8.3% in Europe since 2000

The current economic down turn was largely caused by the bad debt sold off by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mea. Bush started sounding the alarm in 2001. McCain proposed Legislation to regulate the secondary mortgage giants in 2005 and the democratically controlled congress voted 100% against the measure. Republicans screwed up too and Wall Street was greedy but to say the previous administration was responsible for this crisis is just overly simplistic and inaccurate.
I’m a Moderate republican, fiscally conservative and a social centrist. I respect your independent status however you can not get acurate knowledge from the sound bite drive media you obviously trust to get your information. Trust no one and question everyone when it comes to political coverage (yes even John Stewert, the Colbert Report and Family Guy have there own agendas). There are huge forces at work out there and they are not about keeping you well informed.

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It’s all about compromise. Compromise something and then compromise it again and again, until there’s almost nothing left of the original but a faint flavor and a tiny blush of color.

Oh, and market it as the real thing every step of the way.

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American culture is neither as enamored of military pomp as last century’s Germany nor as candidly brutal as Russia or China.

The American path path to the government takeover of everything will travel through miles and miles of small, smiley faced, brush-between-meals and play-nice, sweet sounding increments.

You boil a frog by placing him in a pot of cold water and raising the flame gradually. By the time the frog realizes he has a problem he is already half-way dead.

We won’t, the way say Putin did, go to Rush’s broadcast station, shut it down for a week, arrest the executives and bankrupt the CEO. We’ll just pass another fairness doctrine and bleed off a few percent of productive capital and air-time. If a few small radio or TV stations go broke, the public won’t notice, although investors will.

We’ll freeze up marginal amounts of capital by taxing capital gains that won’t break the biggest corporate players, but may well kill a few thousand small businesses here and there. Nobody will notice, except a some financiers and investors.

We’ll do these things from a thousand angles and American freedom and wealth will bleed away through thousands of tiny cuts.

And all the way to slavery and penury we will be proclaiming our humanism and freedom.

It’s the American way.

The American way to die, that is.

The people of the United States that are part of the conservative movement, or are independents or democrats that are sharing similar beliefs, we need to focus on supporting our Representatives in Congress and the Senators to let them know we are behind them and believe that they should do what is right. Even Senators Snow, Collins, and Spectre, who voted on the Stimulus Bill need to be suported. Although I’d like to add that Spectre, Collins, and Snow need to hear how wrong they were to pass that Bill.

A) The wealth wouldn’t need to be “spread” if it was more evenly distributed. Example: FreeWave technologies out of Boulder, Colorado. The headline reads, “Boulder company shares $9 million with employees.” Yeah, employees. A hundred of them. If it were an investment bank on Wall Street the headline would read, “Wall Street company pays $9 million to the board of directors.”

B) “Bankrutping major industries.” Who did that? The industries themselves. No, it was CRA and Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. They couldn’t even stop the invasion of Iraq, but they can bankrupt entire industries? Give me a break, man.

C) “Attacks on free speech.” Like when Barack Obama had Rush Limbaugh arrested and thrown in jail? Or when he shut down the Rocky Mountain News for publishing that mean article about him? Attacks on free speech?? Don’t you think you’re overstating things a bit? Just a little?

Rush badmouths the guy daily, so Obama’s press secretary calls him out. That’s an attack on free speech???? No, that’s one of the benefits of free speech. The back and forth.

I mean, do you even think about this stuff before you repeat what you heard on the radio?