I tend to disagree with the analysis that the Republican party needs to make a come back and should take the entire blame for big government. Congresspersons Maxine Waters and Raines and many other far left liberal congressional persons promoted the fraudulent loans and Obama's ACORN group which he defends encouraged the banks to give out those loans to people who couldn't afford them. The Republic Senate and Sen. John McCain attempted to avert the housing crisis before it crashed, but Waters and Raines and the other congressional democrats adamantly opposed any investigation and shouted out loud that there was no need for an investigation and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were just fine even though the Republic Senate pointed out that there was only about 23 cents on the books before it crashed. Bush and the Republicans and McCain took the fall for their alleged wrong doing. So what happened to the millions of tax dollars that Raines was suppose to account for? Doesn't anyone care? It was because of President Bush and Senator McCain and the Republicans pushing for the surge that the Iraqis are safer since 911, but Obama was given the credit for doing what which again he didn't deserve. Three thousand Americans were killed on 911 by Islamic radical terrorists who declared war on America and still do by shouting out that they will take over our country or wipe us out. President Bush sent troops to fight them on their soil so that our blood wouldn't be shed on our soil, but Americans soon forgot about that even though Obama said he felt sorry for the attacks on the terrorists by our soldiers, Americans voted for him and he got credit for doing what for America and Iraq? The media intentionally favored Obama and threw 100% of their prime time and most ads were for Obama for months afte he lied to McCain about campaign funds, but what's a little lie by a presidential candidate? The media made sure that they belittled Palin and made fun of her and called her an idiot and female reporters shamelessly judged her as a working mom. The media diminished McCain and Palin so they wouldn't have a chance and it was a shoe in for Obama in my opinion, but then money talks and McCain didn't have connections over seas in enemy countries. A few conservative talk show hosts attempted to get the truth out to the public, but even some of them were eventually reigned in and turned on McCain. So, the fact is that the Democrats started "changing" America under the Clinton administration when he promoted NAFTA and open borders which is disastrous to America and allowed for more drugs to enter our country. Open borders allows more criminals and terrorists to walk into our country and Obama said that he intends to hand driver's licenses to illegals who are violating our laws, but then that's probably not important to Americans since they voted for him. Under the Clinton administration, our military budget was diminished and people were fired and they lost their homes while our government sold arms to communist China and the terrorist countries in the Middle East and Clinton gave billions to Russia. The CEO's whose companies were built on the backs of hard working Americans outsourced our jobs and today, many Americans don't have jobs because these companies are hiring illegal and legal immigrants for less money to take the place of natural born citizens who are fired. The states have been taking away parents rights since the 80s as well as the schools. So, socialism has been slowly pushing its way into our country for many years under the far left democratic programs, but the far left socialist type democrats have been extremely clever to ensure that Bush and McCain and the Republicans would take the fall for the economic crisis and the war and give no credit for protecting the American people or attempting to protect them from the economic crisis. It appears that it is the perfectly planned agenda of the socialist type democrats to take the U.S. Presidency and the U.S. Congress by controlling the media and through manipulation of dirty tricks and by taking credit for what they didn't earn and blaming the Republicans for the economic mess that the democrats created and pushed forward for two decades. The truth is that there are different agendas and as one talk show host said, elections have consequences, and I do predict that in one or two or three years that the American people will be sorry when they are confronted with the consequences by a man who won't produce a certified U.S. birth certificate and certified Proof of Citizenship which could mean that the President of the United States could be a illegal alien and if not, then show the proof of citizenship and end the doubts in the minds of millions.

Agree! President Bush ran as a conservative but was only socially conservative. He did not take a firm stand against making government larger. The best example is the hiring of airport screeners. He buckled and let congress dictate that they would be government workers instead of hiring private companies do the job. He was rather laissez faire in his approach to the problem, how sad. The president's policy of "spend if you can pay for it and spend if you can't pay for it' or the drunken sailor spending policy has left the country in a terrible condition. I would give him credit for advising congress that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in serious danger. Many of us thought we were electing a social and financial conservative when we voted for President Bush but we soon found out we were wrong. The only way we can assure that we vote for a conservative is to create a conservative party with a party platform and party philosophy that includes both social and financial planks. I am sick and tired of electing someone and when it is too late discover they are just another one of the old old boys or girls. I fear that the three elected represenatives from my state and didstrict are all closet liberals. I am confident that one of my senators, who just was reelected, is liberal and the otherr one, elected two years ago, borders on the liberal side. My newly elected congressman who is a republican, who defeated a conservative republican in the primary, I suspect tends to be liberal. Enough of this deception, I would like to know when I vote that I have at least better then a 50% chance of electing a conservative. I would like to think that I would have someone who would stand up for the values and morals that my great-great-great grandfather took a bullet for when he fought in the Revolutionary War. Let's create a new party by getting the nation's top conservatives together to develop the principles upon which it will be founded. Let's seek input from ordinary citizens across this great country and let the Republiccan Party go along its way. I, for one, have had my fill of candidates claiming to be a conservative when all they want is to be elcted so they can go to Washington to engage in all the excesses that members of the democrat party so richly enjoy. Their retirement, health care, and all the social amenities. Obama, or Osama as Semator Kennedy referred to him, is probably right. We do need change in Washington but not the kind he envisions. It is the kind that takes control of the government for the average citizen that is not looking for a handout but just an opportunity to live our lives without the fear of government intrusion. We need a government to protect and defend our constitution that was developed by flawed individuals who were much more perceptive than ANY we have serving in government today. Our constitution is not 'living' as some numbskulls describe it but is a precious document that created the greatest country ever imagined. It is inanimate but contains words that represents the ideals of a people that desire freedom from other countries and our own government. It is time for a Conservative Party in America!!!