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Jonnan, you're flat wrong. Bush really isn't a conservative. All he did is claim he was. Then he got elected and it became apparent he was anything but. The Democrats are going to claim this is result of conservatism and lack of regulation, when it is exactly the opposite. The Republicans have been worse than Democrats the last eight years. The financial sector has been more regulated than ever before, even before the bailouts. Ever s

I believe that narrow popular vote victory for Obama is proof of this. John McCain was a terribly weak candidate, and yet he still lost by a relatively small margin (popularly).

I strongly disagree with your labeling the left as 'progressive' (one look at human history will reveal that ideas on the 'right' are far more progressive). 'Right' ideas (read: NOT Republican ideas) are ideas supporting more individual freedom and less government control. This is where America comes from. Over the last 225 years, the experiment that is America has proven without a doubt that these ideas, which were once labeled radical themselves, and still largely are, wor

The bailout plan is bad, but for many reasons not understood by the majority of people. Not only is it morally wrong to give tax payers' money to companies to bail them out, not only is this the biggest intervention in the economy since the great depression, not only is it unconstitutional but -- This fails to address the problem that caused this in the first place. The problem is NOT the free market gone amuck. Many democrats and some republicans will