Your conservative rule, Ake, compared to ours is quite moderate...

Our conservatives represent the NRA which is in business to sell handguns... There are more handguns owned by private US citizens than owned private and public for the entire rest of the world combined and we have 100,000 people shot every year as a result of it... That's our brand of conservatism...

Our conservatives think that the state should have the right to not only make decisions about women's health but also strap them down against their will and perform medical tests that penetrate her... That's out brand of conservatism...

Our conservatives have no problems selling our government to the highest bidders, be they domestic or foreign, without the voting public having the right to know who it is that is buying up the blocks of advertising time??? As far as our conservatives are concerned it could be al qeada or the Taliban buying chunks of our government... That's out brand of conservatism...

Out conservatives have rigged the deck so that the 1/2 of American people now live at 125% of the official (ha) poverty level or less which represents the highest per capital poverty level of any western so-called civilized country... And after rigging the deck they blame that 1/2 of the population for their plight??? That's our brand of conservatism...

Our conservatives are for denying health care to people who, frankly, cannot afford it and are on record of saying, "yeah, let them die in the streets"... That's our brand of conservatism...

Our conservatives love incarceration and they want it to be as long and as miserable as possible thinking that will teach people to behave better when every study show that the longer the incarceration the higher the recidivist rates??? That's our brand of conservatism...

Our conservatives think that disenfranchising voters who might vote against them is the best way to hold power... 70,000 black voters have been disenfranchised in South Carolina for the sin of being born at home 50, 60, 70 years ago when most black people were born at home... And these voters are people who have had the right to vote all their lives... It's now taken away... That's out brand of conservatism...

Our conservatives think apartheid is peachy in their book as schools are being re-segregated through out the South and in many mid-western states... That's our brand of conservatism...

I mean, I could go on and on, Ake... Unless you live here, you are clueless just how much our conservatives are like the Taliban...

B~