CABO35 writes "Is the conservative belief in freedom and liberty a problem? ....Is the conservative belief in less government intrusion into our daily lives a problem? Is the conservative belief in a strong national defense an issue? Do you criticize us because we support adherence to the founding principles embodied in the Constitution and oppose legislating from the bench?"

Well, the problem is your belief in free and liberty is limited to those who think lie you or who are able to help you make as much profit off of others as possible. If they don't think like you, or look like you, or act like you, the implication and explication is "You're a traitor! you're anti-American! you're a socialist! you're anything I can throw on the wall and make stick!" Rush, Anne, Beckerhead, Angione and dear Ruthie Kelly would brag "damn straight!" about that- and they are your leaders until you say they aren't.

Conservatives don't belive in less government. Look at the movement to put the first NEGATIVE amendment into the Constitution since Prohibition was passed. pushed by the same type of self-named moralists as yourselves.

Was Terri Schiavo your idea of "less intrusive government"? How about the mis-named Patriot Act? Illegal Spying on U.S. citizens? The Bush signing statements and EO's to make FEMA the unchallengable and ultimate power under W. Himself whenever he chose to call a national emergency and create Martial Law?

Less intrusive? How about Cheney's declaration that he, as VP, is not subject to any article in the U.S. constitution. Or the shutting down of archiving under the FOIA bythe Executive. Is all this "less intrusive government?"

Perhaps the biggest lie of all is the crap you try to pass off as "strict constructionism" from the bench. Right-wing judges and the "four & half" majority of the Supreme Court has done nothing to keep their hands off of the established laws of this nation, or of 1000 years of jurisprudence under stare decisis. In fact Clarence Thomas and Anton Scalia have declared themselves as ideological conservatives who feel they can overturn any law that does not fit within their ideological framework.

CABO35, just because you claim the words of "freedom" "principles" "strong national (like 9/11 happening on the Bush-Bin Laden-Saud honeymoon-watch?) defense" doesn't mean the hundreds of millions of Americans who disgree with the Beckerhead mentality don't treasure those things legitimately, and even more strongly than you. And just because you guys somehow think a bald eagle wrapped in a flag gives you some magic patriotic power over everyone else's beliefs, doesn't mean it's true. All it means is you've mastered the ability to use Karl Rove's stated principle, founded on Goebbels and Orwell's genius: Turn your own biggest weakness into the fault of your enemy.