Mike Huckabee is an anti-smoking, anti-obesity, tax raising, government lover.

Mitt Romney is a formerly pro-choice Governor of one of the most Leftist states in the union, nicknamed "Tax-achussetts". His views on healthcare seem to be, well, Universal Healthcare, but with corporate HMOs included. This is perhaps, the worst idea for healthcare I've heard. Out and out government healthcare would be a lesser evil, in my mind, but still evil.

John McCain has been a beloved figure by Democrats for years. I disagree strongly with McCain politically, but I think that McCain is a great man. As a soldier, he diplayed tremendous endurance and courage to extreme hardship, and gave everything to his country except his life. With respect for this, I still have to wonder, though, if spending six years in a Vietnamese prison camp, eating spiders for lunch and conducting performances of plays where you act out the characters, for the entertainment of yourself, doesn't have permanent effects.

Rudy Giuliani has better ideas on healthcare that emphasize free markets. He's suddenly formerly anti-gun, but still pro-choice. Also, he dressed in drag for a gay pride parade and for Saturday Night Live, and lived with two gay men for awhile. I have to be honest; I'm personally not so bothered by any of these things. I think if Giuliani is president, he won't do anything to the second amendment or abortion. But let's face it, he's not what conservatives usually consider to be conservative.

So, there's the pack for Republicans.

Personally, I'm a Libertarian that leans to the right. I think there's quite a few of us here.

But there are some very conservative people here as well. I think they may be yearning for the days of '96 when Bob Dole was running against Bill Clinton.

This is a real problem. For decades, perhaps longer, Americans have voted for the lesser of two evils. At one extreme was conservative Republicans. On the other side, was rather moderate Democrats.

Not in this election, though. Now America is deciding between very far left Democratic candidates and very wishy-washy, fence riding, Republicans with mixed views. I don't think it's a good sign when conservatives are looking more like leftists, when leftists aren't hiding their socialist views.

I've got to be honest; I don't think that America, as an ideal, exists anymore in this situation. Even if a Republican wins the election, it is an inevitable matter of time before a Democrat wins. If this happens with a Democrat Congress, that's the end of the ballgame.

In other words, in my view, we are one election, this election, away from the death of The United States of America. A democrat president with a democrat congress will act so quickly to destroy any semblance of America in terms of its founding ideals that your right to smoke will suddenly seem like a inconsequential problem compared to your right to privacy, your right to eat meat, your ability to pay less than $5.00 a gallon for gas, and your ability freely access information on the internet. Your taxes will immediately increase, as will the prices you pay, and more and more government intervention will be proposed as a solution to the problem. Conservative voices on talk radio will be immediately shut down via reinstituting the fairness doctrine. As the free market recoils, poverty spreads, the second amendment is obliterated, and crime and public unrest increases, we'll be sold further government solutions to fix our problems, which were, of course, created by government in the first place.

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