It has bothered me and I couldn't figure out why conservatives would either sit out the election or worse voted for Obama.  I am not sure I have it yet, but I might.  Recently I have been involved in a discussion with a cross section of conservatives.  Like everything else all conservatives are not equal, that is,  have the same views.  Pat Buchanan over the years has shocked me with a few of his views, although I do respect his opinion.

It seems that the far right and the far left come together on some issues as strange as that may seem, proving the earth is round.  Protectionism is a really common issue and also the far right are like the far left in that they see a conspiracy around every corner, I am sure they are different but the principal is the same.  Some even mid stream conservatives thought there was so little difference between Obama and McCain, they would rather the Dems make the mistakes and clean it up in 2012.  I don't think they had any idea that Obama would turn the nations economic wows into a giant power grab.  Dick Morris, said recently, it didn't matter to Obama if he had a second term as long as he can get his agenda fulfilled within his first term.  That is a bold statement, but I suspect more truth than fiction.  Obama has over stepped and needs to get it all done in 2 years, before there are some drastic changes in the Congress.  I think people that thought that during the election will live to regret it.  I have said it a number of times, McCain was far from my first choice, but I would take him in a New York minute.  Mark Levin in his best seller "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" doesn't really make much of a distinction between Democrats and Republicans and once they get to Washington I think he may be right.  The system isn't flawed but it has been victimized and it all comes down to one word "MONEY".  Oh, I know, tell me something I don't know.  I guess it is going to take a real disaster, much bigger than 911 to wake the country up.

We sure have become a country of labels.  I am comfortable being called a conservative and don't consider myself excessively right, but when called a NeoCon by a right wing radical, that I didn't take very well.  There are 10 or 12 things that most conservatives believe but only one they all agree on, Less Government.  We make it harder than it has to be, we should always vote for less government above all.  Was McCain going to bring us more or less government, it would be hard to imagine more that is for sure.  But think of all the ways the government sticks its nose in your business.  Simple things, like how much water your toilet can use, whether you watch analog or digital TV, diluting your gas with 10% useless Ethanol.  As you go through your day you can hardly do something without some kind of government intervention.  Now, they want to tell thriving non bailout companies how to pay their employees, next it will be your pay that is regulated by the government, not that it already isn't, when you look at your pay check, there are usually 5 taxes taken out of it, all but one is fixed and you can't deduct a penny from it.

So what is a liberal.  In the classical sense it has been misused and mostly what is thought liberal is really the progressive movement from the 20's and 30's.  Even Hillary when asked a couple of years ago about the subject said she was a progressive not a liberal.  Amity Shlaes in her wonderful book "The forgotten Man" goes into great detail about what a progressive is.    Winston Churchhill bounced back and forth between the liberal and conservative party, when it fit his agenda but never to the labor party.  This is what he thought and compare it to the modern day liberal.  "Socialism seeks to pull down wealth;  Liberalism seek to raise up poverty.  Socialism would kill enterprise'  Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference.  Socialism  exalts the rule;  Liberalism exalts the man.  Socialism attacks capital;  Liberalism attacks monopoly".  So in item one, have we raised up poverty, didn't happen but now the mission is the bring everyone to the level just above poverty and dependency.  I am not sure I like either definition in item #2, if some one works hard they should be able to find the rewards.  #3 I would replace with the word power, its all about power.  Attacking capital, where have we heard that, sure dismantling Standard Oil and AT&T was good for the country mostly because competition is good.  By Churchill's definition, is Obama a liberal? or what we all have thought a socialist?

This post didn't start out this way, it just happened.  Even before the election I was so tired of hearing Obama's name, I told Barbara if for no other reason I would like to see him defeated so I don't hear his name again.  But that was not to be, even on the Fox News Channel, every news cast starts with the words President Obama.  It is about time he got out of campaign mode and got this country back on its feet, opps I forgot he thinks this is where it should be.  There in lies the difference between modern liberalism(socialism) and what we conservatives stand for, if we don't unite soon, it will be us that ruined the country by not caring for it.