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RINOs get a bad rap.

There comes in the growth and maturity of one who ponders politics when cogito, ergo sum gives way to sum, ergo cogito. It is left to those who still ascribe to the former schema of formulating policy positions and opinions in their ponderances to keep…

There’s a teleconference for Republican National Convention delegates on Monday night. It’s good timing: Watching this week’s Democrat convention has got me thinking about our shindig in a month’s time. Here’s my wish list: No lame pop music from the ‘…

As a speaker, Michael Reagan would be a slap against the Dems using Ron Reagan in Boston; plus, he can make the pitch that Bush and the Republican party have their roots in his father Ronald Reagan.

Xrlq makes a strong argument. The odds of Kerry appointing anyone but a Marxist are zero. With GWB, we might get a few decent federal judges. Gonzales is a disaster, as is O’Connor – who is rumored to be Bush’s pick for chief justice. I happen to live in a leftist-owned state (Illinois) which Bush hasn’t a prayer of winning. So, I’ll probably vote for the Constitution Party just to send the Illinois RINO-mafia a message.

If it should by some miracle look close for this state by October, I’ll likely hold my nose and vote for GWB.

I hate to get into a discussion on what the meaning of “is” is, but I suppose I can explore it a bit. By Ante-Reagan conservative do you mean the Rockefeller conservative? Well, I agree that was not the Gipper. That Rockefeller style is far cozier to the Bush types (though we shouldn’t beat around the Bush too much), as well as the Schwarzenegger’s and McCain’s (though they arguably are almost fully fledged Liberals). And certainly the Rockefeller’s were more dull than Reagan- the whole family (I should know, my mom dated one of them in the 60’s and found him quite boring, and so here I am). So people found Reagan, and who believed that the good old America they grew up believing in and seeing first hand was still there?

Reagan-Conservative, Americana, by whichever name anyone would wish to call it, identified with America’s values and was able to also articulate them well enough to let us know that it was so. That is a winning strategy, if I may sound so cynical. I don’t think too many of the public are after names, titles or labels as they are after records and chutzpah. Certainly Reagan measured well in both of them. The elder Bush was on his way to reform post-Reagan, but lacked that sense of destiny that allowed him to listen to the people more than he listened to the press, which of course made us lose our respect for his performance by virtue of his record.

Of course we hear from every corner that we must grow more liberal with each generation and all of that hogwash. Well, what does that say about being anything but a die-hard communist? If the rest of us are simply aspiring to one day be so Liberal, then why not just get it over with?

Obviously trends are made up of people who make choices because they let other people- or information- influence them. The trend in our country has been to the left because we have let ourselves be put upon by the Leftwing press and education establishment without even realizing it. Next thing you know, they will start sheering us every springtime :p

Now as for conservative trumping moderate to the public, I have to say I usually will agree with Tim Keller when he says,

“The pattern here is that CONSERVATIVE policies WIN ballot propositions, while politically correct, LIBERAL Republican candidates who avoid these “controversial issues” LOSE elections.”

Or have we bought that much of the liberal media over the past 20 years? Ronald Reagan wasn’t popular because he was a great communicator, to paraphrase him, but because he communicated great ideas. What are the great ideas today? And who sells them with passion and optimism? That is America and that would sell because after all, it’s real and honest and right. And Americans know it.

But go ahead, cast a half a vote for Kerry if you wish. He’s going to carry California, regardless, so your vote and mine aren’t really going to matter anyway.

Right now, all the Real Republicansâ„¢ are up in arms over the fact that four whole liberal pro-choice Republicans will be filling prime-time slots at the G.O.P. convention. Worse yet, one of those four, Michael Bloomberg, is actually a liberal in ot…