America is just about finished with the ‘conservative movement’ headed as it is by people with absolutely no solutions to offer except opposition to ‘liberals’.
What the hell are you talking about? Conservatism, as a method of analyzing the world and our place in it, relies on observation of nature and history, not on “opposition to liberalism”. Conservative solutions to problems have the added advantage of making all costs and benefits of solving said problems transparent, unlike liberalism, which shrouds its solutions in pleasing rhetoric like “tax the rich” without noting the side effects of said policies. Conservative, classical liberal policies are the only things that have ever worked in history, whereas liberal, statist solutions end up in nightmares wherever they are tried, in the worst case, or create unintended negatives that basically balance out whatever good they create, leaving the situation as a basic wash, in the best case.
There’s a basic reason why people become more conservative as they get older and it isn’t because they get stupider and/or less experienced in the actual ways of the world.
Oh, and if McCain wants to be president, he should just friggin’ suck it up and go along with what the majority of people who are would-be supporters want. That, combined with the obvious lines of attack on Obama (his policies are too expensive and based on unfounded assumptions, his willingness to dialogue with people committed to our destruction is dangerous, etc.) should be enough to put McCain in office.
