I couldn't believe what I read just a few minutes ago on a conservative friend's site. This post, from On The Right - a conservative blogger, is basically a repetition of every Democrat talking point out there right now. I sort of went off on the guy's comments section, and I wanted to post it here because I think you all need to know this.

All this negativism BY REPUBLICANS WILL drive down voter turnout. Right now, there are a lot of people in office who want to do the right thing. Nancy Pelosi, on the other hand, wants power. She said, "I'll have any suite I want" after the election. We're squabbling amongst ourselves about how the people we elected aren't conservative enough, while Ms. San Francisco pines for the corner office and tries to push the ACLU down Kentuckians throats. Please read:

Steve said, "We have done nothing to improve the lives of the middle class and have ignored the poor while giving tax breaks to the most affluent in our society!" What? You sound like Al Gore.

Your whole post makes you sound like a mouthpiece for the Democrats. You're repeating the stump speeches of Democrats, only you're saying "we."

The massive tax cuts were for the middle class. Not to mention, it's not exactly a new idea to go into deficit spending when the economy hits a recession. That is part of why the business cycles are getting smaller. We have short recessions instead of long depressions. Not to mention, have you seen where the deficit is shrinking? If Congress would tighten the belt just a little bit, we would have a balanced budget. The economy grows every year. That's what those GDP numbers are all about every quarter. The growing economy, combined with the Bush tax cuts, has caused more revenue to flow into the government. Therefore, the practical reality is that they are going to spend it. Now, I would love for them to send it back, but it's not going to happen. A more pragmatic argument would be to argue about how they spend it. I wish they would spend more on border control and technology r&d (alternative fuel methods which could eventually be mainstream - reducing dependance on foreign oil), instead of the social engineering projects that are going on now.

Something that bothers me, though, is that you just left out national security of your list of things that matter to conservatives. Do you understand that all of this talk of taxes, healthcare, and so on is pointless if fanatics get into the country and start detonating dirty bombs, suicide bombings, and flying more airplanes into more buildings? ALL of that gets brushed aside, because in order to have a perfect conservative utopia, you have to have a place in which to live in peace. This nation, and frankly this world, is not at peace right now. Those people hated us and our nation and Israel and Britain long before the Iraq War and they will hate us for a long time from now. We have to fight them.

My question is, would it make you happy for Republicans to lose on 11/7? Would you like that? Would it be punishment or something to all of those Republicans who aren't quite conservative enough for the conservative utopia? That's what it sounds like when you repeat Democrat stump speeches.

If you keep rallying for the Republicans to lose, who is going to pass all of this conservative legislation that you want? Nancy Pelosi? You want to see some social security reform? Forget about it. You want some Hillary-care? You got it.

Democrats are going to stall all possible progress that could be made in the last two years of the Bush presidency, or regime, as you might say, they're going to drag the economy down, prevent continuance of the Patriot Act, push legislation to give terrorists the right to attorney, push for free education for all illegal immigrants, and then blame all of the bad stuff on George Bush during the race for the presidency in 2008.

Mark it down. They're going to screw everything up and then blame it on Bush and the Republicans in their presidential campaigns, all because people like you demand perfection during the election season. It doesn't matter who is in Congress when disaster strikes. Who the President is is what matters. If Democrats take Congress and weaken anti-terror measures, then someone gets in and blows something up, do you think people are going to say, "Oh, those stupid Democrats!" Absolutely not. They're going to blame Bush and then we're going to have to sit through eight years of Democrat rule, at least, complaining the entire time about the insanity of what they're doing, their lack of resolution on Social Security reform, raising taxes, raising minimum wages, granting the UN power over us, and so on.

The time for all of this ranting was the day after election day - 2004. We should come together during the election season so the country doesn't get turned over to a bunch of radicals.

Were you happier during the Clinton years? Are San Francisco values better than weak-conservative values? Decide on Novmber 7th.