Political season is upon us again and finding a candidate should be fairly easy, if you rely on the media that is. I noticed ( as I am sure you did ) almost immediately we were given a long list of potentials and told which ones where the "top tier." It seems they expect us to choose from the two or three in this tier of acceptable candidates and expected to ignore the others such as Duncan Hunter or Mike Huckabee. (of course after Iowa's straw poll the media might be forced to place Huckabee in the first tier.)

Instead we are told that John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are our choices. John McCain!! Can anyone figure out how he still rates tier one status. What the media is forgetting is the conservative wing of the Republican party. I am registered Republican because that is where the conservatives are, if we had our own party or were part of the democrats that’s where I’d be.

It seems with the media it is forever just Republican Vs Democrat, What are the choices for the conservative movement. Is Rudy or Romney really a part of our movement or are they paying lip service to our beliefs because we are a large part of the Republican Party?

I was/am a strong supporter of President Bush. He is a Republican but not a conservative. He supports the war against our islamic enemies, he has stood strong against abortion and its safe to say his tax policy has encouraged excellent economic growth. As a Republican he has not supported all conservative policy choices. His new tone has come back to bite him in the rear. He should have gotten rid of the Clinton holdovers and because he didn’t every decision he made was leaked to the New York Times in an effort to undermine his goals. He allowed Ted Kennedy to write the education policy. How much more money do they really need to teach our kids to read and write? I don’t even want to discuss the immigration policy President Bush has tried to shove down our throat. How many more murders do we need in our so called sanctuary cities before we decided it’s not a good thing to ignore illegals.

So where do the conservatives go? Who do we vote for? If we don’t get our best choice do we support the Republican nominee? I will. I remember 2006. We chose not to support Republicans and look what it got us. In the scheme of things a Republican is far better then a democrat.