For the Bush apologists, I welcome the return of CDS (Clinton Derangement Syndrome). Four years of listening to your veins explode will be sweet. I hope that Hillary Clinton develops a lisp and reverts to baby-talk during her short tenure of cleaning up the eight year Bush pile.

Only when Hillary exhorts us all to “Wuv ishamofashism” will you know how real conservatives (and everyone else on the planet) have suffered these long years.

Though McCain claims “outsider and maverick” labels, he’s been part of the establishment all his adult life: Born on a naval base as the son and grandson of admirals, lived on a military bases his entire childhood, went to the Naval Academy, served a full military career, immediately ran for congress in ‘82 after retiring, moved on to the Senate in ‘86, and has been there ever since. So McCain has been a paid employee of the US government for 54 years and grew up in an elite military family before that. You can’t get any more ‘establishment’ than John McCain.

So what if the likely GOP nominee believes in restraints on free speech, higher taxation, bigger government, open borders, and 100-year U.S. armies of occupation everywhere from Albania to Zimbabwe? Romney believes in those things too — at least, he does when he’s in a room full of people that want him to.

In stark contrast, Ron Paul is the private sector candidate, for all those productive Americans who are sick and tired of foreign wars, Federal Reserve bubbles, the police state, and excessive taxes. Only Ron Paul speaks for freedom, peace, and prosperity.

Without a strong economy, everything else fails as well. When Bush took office in 2001, gold was at $270/ounce. Today’s price is over $900–and not because gold has become more valuable; rather, you need more dollars to buy the same amount of gold. The economic failures hitting Main St. and the suburbs will grow and only Dr. Paul is addressing this core issue in an intelligent manner.

And ‘national security’ conservatives, please note that when the dollar finally crashes (a la the ruble in ’80s and ’90s), any sense of military security will crumble as well. How many soldiers will continue to defend Iraq, Germany, or Japan when the paycheck doesn’t arrive? Or behave as Russian soldiers did and sell military hardware to feed their families?

McCain is the best candidate to defeat any Republican, I must agree with the polls. What I fear is how much he will be swiftboated, to an extent where he is damaged overall. While I don’t really imagine more Republican votes for any Democrat, if the primary becomes more tawdry, the whole slate can go down.

Judgemental as hell, arn’t you? Or are you just looking for anything you can bash Romney over?

Care to discuss McCain’s fact finding mission to Vietnam with John Kerry where he pandered to Kerry and turned his back on American POWs, or is that too deep for you?

That said a friend of mine returned from a visit to southern California a couple of weeks ago, after being away for some ten years she could not help but notice that it looks like a big garbage dump.

Oh billionaire Kennedy-clan Arnold he has have served his upper class so well, I’m glad he endorsed McCain.

you know, all that misplaced vitriol could shorten your life considerably.

Really? ‘Cause he posted a wiki link that was on point? Your skin is so thin it is translucent. This is going to be a fun election season, for me, but not for the waaaaaaaaaaahmbulance. And the results in November will also be fun, for those of who are relishing a return to empirical thinking.