I don't know if I have any fight left in me. I really believed that today was going to be the day we started the slow, hard slog back to fiscal sanity and I'm crushed to find the opposite. We're told that truly hard-core conservatives can't win.  We nominate truly, truly middle of the road squishes (McCain & Romney) and we *still* lose.

But, unlike liberals who threatened to leave the US and go somewhere more liberal (like Canada or Europe), there is no place for conservatives and libertarians to go anymore.  This country was the last, best hope, but how much more time and how many more elections do we even have to save the republic.

That's all good and well, Rob, and I appreciate the pep talk, but I fear that a clear majority of the country is just not amenable to "arguments."  Their votes are bought and paid for through bail-outs, entitlements, and pork.  If a $16 trillion debt and the events in Benghazi can't convince people to fire the head honcho, what form of reason can?

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