Conservatives have lost a lot because they dont really offer any meaningful changes in society. They argue for the free market, yet dont dare touch issues like abolishing the minimum wage, or anti-trust laws. Talking to them about how we need to get rid of tons of government programs and agencies and they’ll look at you like a loon. Why, you would get of THAT? (big frown, wide eyes). You must be one of THEM. (BTW, to any conservative reading this, who exactly are they referring too?)

They don’t really want to get rid of liberal institutions (only those wierd radicals want that), they just want to ‘reform’ them. Reform socialist entities like Medicare? By golly, you guys are brilliant!

Conservatives are helpful when they argue for second ammendment rights, but I’m nearly convinced that if they lost, they would not fight to re-instate it, they would fight to ‘reform’ it, i.e., argue that we should make exceptions to the rule against gun laws. In fact, I hear some doing this already.

To sum it up, conservatives are the great reformers of liberal institutions. Show me a conservative, and I’ll show you someone who is only slightly economically less clueless than a liberal.

Ilana, I don’t think Hunter is bad looking. But from the account in newsweek ( http://www.newsweek.com/id/151783 ), she’s an utter fruitcake. Astrology, karma, “energy”, reincarnation, make-things-happen-via-imagining them, etc. To my mind the craziest thing about Edwards is that for all his power, money, and good looks, he settles on that for his mistress. I wouldn’t touch a woman like that for money.