In all seriousness though.  Now that they have lost the "stupid people" they are willing to admit that they have thought that the po' folk and blue collars for the past fifty plus years are stupid.  Now they just need to admit that they have been manipulating and lying to the working class.

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I was watching Hannity and Colmes last night (Feb 9th, 2008), and they had Trace Adkins, the country singer, on the show. Colmes asked him why so many country stars lean conservative. What Trace said was interesting to me, and should have been picked up on by Hannity: "I think it's because of the blue collar values and conservativism."

The reason I found that significant is that most people these days equate "blue collar" with liberalism. They think that blue collar means unionism and thus Democrat Party. This fails on a number of levels. First of all, a blue collar man isn't necessarily union. Secondly, union people don't necessarily back the Democrats. Third of all, the Democrat Party of 40 years ago was more conservative than the Republicans.

Barry Goldwater was significant in the Republican Party, not because he represented the rank-in-file GOP, but because his politics flew in the face of them. He represented a more libertarian viewpoint; much like Reagan and Ron Paul. This has been the battle within the GOP for these 4 decades since Goldwater. This is also what is at stake in this coming election: does the GOP continue to find country clubbers to nominate, moderate RINOs (Republicans In Name Only); or will they nominate another Reagan? I am not holding out any hope for a real conservative to get the nod.

The Democrat Party of 40 years ago was "the blue collar party." They represented the working man, who only wanted to provide for his family and keep his constitutional freedoms. This is a thing of the past for the Democrats. They still put forth the rhetoric of being champions of racial equality and the American worker. Yet, they are now the party of special interests, none of which represent the "rank-in-file" working man. That is unless that working man is the capitalism-hating union man that has become the caricature of the blue collar man.

Freedom loving Americans need to find a way to change the direction of our country. Both the GOP and the Democrats respresent party interests at the exclusion of the average American. Big spending, high taxes (in spite of recent tax cuts, they remain too damn high), special rules for special groups, etc. all work against Constitutional America.

Grover Norquist's newly released book, "Leave Us Alone" argues that the Republican Party can best win elections if it puts together a coalition which he calls the "Leave Us Alone" coalition consisting of taxpayers, gun owners, home schoolers, property rights activists, citizens who own stock, and religious citizens who want the government to LEAVE THEM ALONE.

This coalition could beat the Democratic Party's coalition called the "Takings Coalition" consisting of government workers, labor union activists, university employees, trial layers and coercive utopians.

For the Leave Us Alone Coalition to win, each part of the coalition must respect the other coalition members' right to be left alone. Even if different coalition members don't necessarily like or agree with each other. For example, some religious conservatives may not agree with some coalition members stands on sex before marriage or legalized marijuana. And they should be free to debate, argue or not like each other. But they should all agree that the government should leave them alone.

Perhaps we need to prove we're not stupid (or lazy) and stick together (play nice).  A house divided cannot stand.

We can get this done, together.  Let us not be found capitalizing on our differences/hot button issues.  Let us concentrate on all the things we agree on and clean this mess up.

I've found all of you so helpful, informative, and thought provoking. I'm learning from you guys.

I'd like to help more too. I'm trying to learn how. Until then consider me your cheer section.

He also had a bumper sticker that said: "Commissioner Grebner: No worse than the rest."