Hey folks, The American people voted the strong majorities in both Houses. The American people said enough to 8 years of Orwellian garbage. What garbage?

Well, "The Club for Growth" favors taking out so-called "moderate" Republicans in favor of ideological "purists" (That's where the quotes came from, BTW). That philosophy of "Growth" leads to a path in which the Republic party fields such right-wing candidates that none can win in a general election, The Club for Growth will actually choke the republic party to death.


The party of angry radio hosts, and apparently a number of posters on this very message board aren't interested in what America needs- they were too busy bashing the people of California, or New York, or Massachusetts by smearing them as "un-American." Works great if all you listen to is Hannity or Rush or Bortz. But there's a whole nation out there that thinks these few loonies and their followers are crack-heads, well, ok, oxycontin-heads. And so America voted the way they did to get the "crazies" out. nd it kills you that the AMerican people may actually have the right to vote against your own delicately and narrowly-constructed world-view.

And it wasn't just Federal candidates. It was across the board. The Villages was so out of the general parameters of the political issues that it was simply irrelevant. The tantrums that preceded the election (God, guns and Gays) have morphed into a tantrum-fest about "Socialism/Marxism"- words unspoken by republic party candidates until Sarah Palin was selected, but now used as smears every day by dittoheads.

Smaller government? When? Prove it. Back it up with facts.

All America saw was a three trillion dollar boondoggle for the defense industry disguised as a war against Al Queda. Smaller government? All America saw was an unprecedented grab for un-Constitutional power INCREASING the size of government in a previously unforeseen way. Smaller government?

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The vast majority of Americans, and the Supreme Court, saw an illegal and un-Constitutional surveillance program and Executive orders giving the President and FEMA near-dictatorial powers with no constraints.

Millions of Americans, still a minority, but increasing in numbers exponentially, saw people claiming to be Christians working feverishly to deny millions of Americans the rights and responsibilities that they enjoy simply because God gave them the gift of loving someone of their own gender. And Lord knows, those people KNOW what God wants for all of us.

Never mind that Britney Spears can have the privileges of marriage while two women who have devoted 50 years of their lives to each other in monogamy don't even have the "freedom" to visit each other in a hospital room. Never mind that these few million cab cheer Newt talking about "family values" while he screws one wife dieing of cancer, and then screws another with his secretary. He's got all the freedom in the world to do that, and still receive more than 1,000 marriage benefits that a long-term couple of 35 years does not have the "freedom" to enjoy. FREEDOM

Well the American people, just as they eventually woke up to the evil of racial bigotry and the evil of discrimination against women, are waking up to the fact that the gay-baiters were using hate against gays and lesbians as just another burning cross. The American people are rapidly realizing that civilly recognizing a responsible monogamous couple does nothing to weaken the institution of marriage, in fact it strengthens it. And they are realizing that civil recognition does not imply that religious institutions need to follow that path.

Unfortunately, in our little incestuous world here, we all think that we think alike, and look alike, and represent what "America" looks like. Well, sorry folks, we are older, we are wealthier, we are more conservative, and we are more isolated from the currents that steer the nation as a whole.

So while you're out dipping your teabags on John McCain's head and attacking what you think are a few left-wing nut jobs who somehow hoodwinked an entire nation, 300 million people have realized that it was all based on hate and anger and greed and self-interest. And they're not buying it anymore.

So what is the republic party going to do? Purify the RINO's, move even more to the "right." The radical talking heads and Fundamentalists and "Club for Growth"ers are so consumed by their hatred, they only alienate millions more each month. The republic party is a sinking ship, torpedoed by a conservative movement that is so addicted to itself that it cannot see past its own daily "fix/" They're saying only the "rats" jump off. How insane to not realize that they are the cause of their own sinking- and any sane person would put on a life preserver and climb onto a rescue boat, not point at the rats and call them cowards!