Bernie Madoff should be the Man of the Year. He epitomizes perfectly what America has become.

(Although AJ has done an outstanding job presenting the purely rational pro-life argument)

I’ll add that reform will also go over well. But it has to be real, and bold.

When you pick issues that are fundamental issues of people’s belief systems, you can no longer hold any constructive debate. One’s position on the question of abortion, for example, are probably rooted in one’s faith. Arguments of logic have no place in questions of faith because faith should be unwavering. In defining issues that are founded on people’s faith, there can be no compromise and it becomes “all or nothing”. We need to set those issues aside as political points of debate because, frankly, they can not be debated. Elections to political office should not be mechanisms to convert people to different belief systems.

We need to get back to political issues in politics and leave the social issues to the coffee shop. The media fosters this division of belief by focusing on social questions as soon as they interview a candidate. They want to know what their stand on abortion, gay rights, and stem cell research is. Someone needs to have the backbone to say “none of your damned business, what does that have to do with running an economy and defending a nation”.

We all walk our own personal walk. Lets get back to governing and have a little less evangelizing in politics, please.

Yeah, well it is hard to find a winning conservative in any race when all conservatives do is blame everyone else for their self inflicted wounds.

How is it out there in oblivion? Pure and impotent?

Baghdad celebrates first public Christmas
12/21/2008 11:42:47 AM PST · by ksm1 · 9 replies · 393+ views
CNN ^ | December 21, 2008 | Jill Dougherty
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — From a distance, it looks like an apparition: a huge multi-colored hot-air balloon floating in the Baghdad sky, bearing a large poster of Jesus Christ. Below it, an Iraqi flag. Santa and his helpers stand under palm trees at Baghdad’s first public Christmas festival. Santa and his helpers stand under palm trees at Baghdad’s first public Christmas festival.

Conservatism is in danger of developing its own version of the Lunatic Left, and that will do us no good.

But they aren’t the problem. The real problems run deeper.

The Republican Party has a long, sordid history of betraying its allies in an attempt to curry favor with its enemies. Of trying to play a short-term tactical game…at the expense of long-term strategic strength. And it’s bit them. Too many people look at the parties and see no real difference. Because right now, there IS none.

From my perspective, the Republican Party needs to sit down and recognize that when a party gives its word, it MUST be kept. And anyone trying to sell the base down the river needs to see the door – instantly. THEN the Republicans can strike at the numerous weaknesses of the Dems.

Huckabee can call people mushy, but the right hates him too. A lot of them don’t like Palin either. They do not like anyone.

For years I have been listening to these guys say that the majority of Americans agree with them on policy. On everything from immigration to energy to helping American Auto workers, they swear they are in the majority. But if that is so, why are they losing elections to Democrats? It is not as if the Democrats are more conservative.

For instance, they say most Americans don’t like bailouts. Well of course they don’t. But they dislike poverty and unemployment even more. So while people say one thing, they vote for the Democrat.

Meanwhile the right is too abrasive. They are not only indifferent to the job losses, too many of them seem absolutely eager to see the collapse come. As if they thought it would help them or bring people back to them..it gives me the willies.