I think you're right on! Corporatism is fast replacing free markets in our country, and just looking at last falls bailout, polls showed time and again that "we the people" were against it, yet they went ahead and voted in favor of it anyways.

It's tough to keep your customers when you fail to deliver the product they expect.

What’s more? In the 2008 election cycle, Congress had an 8% approval rating–eight percent. Single digit support, the lowest in American history. What happens? We re-elected 89% of Congress. 92% of Americans did not support Congress, yet 9 out of 10 Congressmen were re-elected. We have bigger problems in this country than we think, and most of it is with the people.

I agree! This is why I've said many times the Democrat vs. Republican debate is dead. Two peas in a pod. The sad truth is that people are more inclined to vote for their "team" than vote what they believe.

Russell Kirk served it up well when he explained that conservatism has no “fixed ideology.” There is no paradigm to its thought, no manifesto required, or political dogma to define it.

Yes! While I'm certainly "Old Right," or classically liberal, I'm willing to support politicos who will at least move in that direction. But as long as "Republicans" continue to discount anyone with a genuine desire to head in that direction (limited-government), they might as well proclaim "we all Statists now!"

http://forum.isi.org/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5790067135/m/95810811/r/61810771#61810771

Query: John, the Recovering Republican, do you ever post anything different? Lol.