Tim J. wrote:

I think there's a third and better choice. As George said is some other
thread, this isn't the same Republican Party I signed on with. I think
conservative ideas hold a lot of water and need to be presented by a
conservative. The latest batch of republicans-come-lately that we've seen in
the past several elections talked a conservative game during their campaigns
and then spent money like drunken sailors once in office.

This tired, lame argument is absurd. "If only we'd elected a REAL
conservative to get spending under control!" Name one. Reagan, maybe?

It's instructive to look at this graph of the national debt since WWII:

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

Under Truman (Democrat) and Eisenhower (moderate Republican) it went
down, down, down. Under Nixon, Ford, and Carter it held pretty much
steady. Under Reagan and G.H.W. Bush it rocketed up. Under Clinton it
plummeted. Under G. W. Bush it went way up.

The so-called conservatives are incapable of getting the debt under
control because their only economic plan is to decrease taxes on the
rich and to borrow money to cover the nut.

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