Great post, well thought out and surprisingly sober manifesto for opposition. I hope the movement of your kind of conservatives grows so we can have a healthy conflict of ideas in this country and always make it for the better. Being left of center myself, you are the kind of conservative I could hang out with and come to some kind of consensus. I am happy to disagree with reasonable people and even be swayed by logical argument. For some of your compatriots to argue that Bush did nothing to stimulate a Democratic victory and to blame it solely on “nitpicking” is ridiculous. This kind of thinking will relegate the GOP to the status of the Conservative Party in the UK.

We can have different ideas and do idielogical battle and not hate one another. Hate destroys the hater and weakens our country. We can do this together, with respect.

You have marginalized yourselves into near inconsequence.

And Obama would have a dialogue with which wing of the Republican party? When you have a Republican party, then perhaps he might respond.

Well, some of them, anyway: Hannity, Limbaugh, Kristol, Beck, Buchanan, Joe the Plumber, you, and others of a similar bent.

Then there are less susceptible males who, like my husband, regard Ms. Palin as an embarrassing ignorant throwback. Thankfully, many smart men aren’t mesmerized into an unthinking coma by a nice set of high-heeled legs.

Over the past many years, there have been several liberals and several conservatives elected as president. None of them, with maybe the exception of Carter, really stayed in their mold. All were ultimately pulled into the center where they had to govern from. I suspect that Obama will also end up governing from the center.

Remember, he had the most “points” that is why he is the president. However, the popular vote was almost evenly split and Congress itself, though two parties, is made up of many different ideological factions. Obama, in order to get things done has to deal will all these factions, plus keep the American people “happy”.

An old saying “love is blind, marriage is an eye opener” can just as easily apply to this “marriage” of an avowed liberal who promised all but the moon to everyone, and now has to figure out how to deliver the goods.

I hope that when the dust has settled, Obama will not have tried to lead this country down the path toward “universal everything, responsibility for nothing.” Nothing in his character or past performance makes me think he won’t try, but I can only hope.

One doesn’t have to an obstructionist to stand up for what’s right.

I congratulate you on a very well thought out dissertation. I do agree that conservatives need to pick the battles that mean the most and try to meet some agreement point across the aisle.

Let me ask you a question or two, if I may.

Can you tell me and the readers when was the last time the democrats crossed the aisle to support any legislation that changed/modified a democrat keepsake program?

I know you can do it, because the democrats do it all the time.

Do you remember when was the last time the republicans reached across the aisle to play ball with the democrats and instead of just getting a bloody nose, they got the bat shoved up their ass?

The republicans don’t know how to play the same way the democrats do, even when they have the majority. The first thing the republicans need to do is find some backbone and then integrity. I still hope integrity is a word that in the republican lexicon because they sure haven’t demonstrated it lately. When the republicans can figure out who and what they are, then maybe they will find their way out of the wilderness. Until then, they will nothing more than a well worn speed bump for the democrats and the surge left we are going to experience for at least the next 4 years. I just hope not too much damage is done to the fabric and framework of the ‘good old USA’ that can’t be undone at a later date.

Have a good day.

This is exactly what the dems did to Bush and it got them into power. They politiczed Katrina and ignored the Posse Comitatus Act. They politicized OIF and ignored their own proclamations of the dangers Saddam posed before the 1998 removal of inspectors. They politicized 9/11 by trying to place all the blame on Bush while ignoring Sandy Berger lifting classified documents from the National Archives - Condi simply said we were not a war footing. they tried to politicize the crooked CEO’s by ignoring the fact that the corruption occured under Clinton’s admin and exploded early in Bush’s. Everything they could politicize they did and it worked.

Certainly, the Founders recognized that their document wasn’t perfect, and knew they were flawed men. That’s why they placed in the Constitution the means by which it can be changed, updated, added to and taken from. What if those tens of millions of his ‘inspired’ agree with his desire to create new ‘rights’ via amendment…to income, to health care, to jobs…how would you intend to ’smack them down’? He almost certainly will use his presidency and his majorities in Congress to seek a new national health care entitlement…and we all know that what DC creates never, ever goes away.

I’m sure he is, in the gym playing 3 on 3, a terrific guy. A great husband and father. But he wasn’t elected to play hoops, or as Father of the United States. The hope that he somehow will moderate his ideology developed over the years, steeped in Alinsky, Wright, and Ayers, is based either in willful ignorance or naivety. They have their champion in the WH now, and we ignore that at our peril.