Yes, I still make time to visit your “Young Republican” site and “GenXdad”’s…but it would be awfully nice if you both went else where. My partner J.D. allowed me to use a subdomain of our company and this blog software and it loads like a dream.

Chris, am I noticing a distinct disenchantment with the term “conservative”? I too, have for a number of months, bristled at that word; perhaps because of all the “qualifications” the purists attach to it, like a sainthood none of us can ever attain.

Actually, the 2nd dictionary definition for “conservative” is MODERATE and the term coined for a political party was in OPPOSITION to a revolution. In other words, conservative was supposed to describe those who wanted to retain what was already there, NOT START a revolution that would bring people back to the old ways. As I told a Ron Paulite and “Constitutionists”, do we want to go back to the days when slavery and female apartheid was the norm?

I believe that after 9/11, there were a lot of people like me…Independents that was willing to move to the Right and join the Republican party, but the hard Right drove us out with their sanctimonious demands to detail.

They call it “principles”. I call it plain stupid.

The GOP could have had Congress, the WH, and the Courts locked up for decades.

This is a great site, I think I may move here as well. Townhall did a recent “improvement” so now we must scroll half way down to even get to our first post.

You laid out the conservative case for McCain perfectly. I admit I’m not a “conservative” Republican and on some issues I’m to the left of McCain so it really is shocking to me that the McCain haters want a Democrat so bad who would be far worse for their beliefs. A democrat at his most conservative is still far to the left than McCain at his most liberal.

I’ve had a bit of blogapathy the last few days, not to mention I’ve been busy doing some other stuff. Its just one of those cycles of burn-out that I’ve come to understand is not unusual for long-term bloggers. Regardless of that, I d…