Touring through conservativeville

I think some of the best advice I've read so far (best in the sense that I'd like to take it and see how it works) is the idea to immerse myself in the right and see how they think. So for the next two hours, I will take a dial-up tour around some of the conservative blogs to see how they see us, and post some thoughts off the top of my head.

First off, I get the sense that people have forgotten the reason they vote is not to show support for a candidate they like, but for one that actually shares their viewpoint. This is something I think that would ultimately correct itself, as the nation that did disagree with Bush but voted to stick with him because "they admired his resolution" gets a taste of what he really has to offer. But perhaps a reminder that you vote on issues and not on personality would help?

Over at Let's Try Freedom, we have talk about what is wrong with Democrats and the ascension of the "permanent Republican majority." I'm sure I'm not the only one to point this out, but Kerry lost this election by only approximately 3 million votes. Gore won the popular vote four years ago.

The difference in the two parties is that Democrats like the Northeast and West Coast, and focus a ton of people in big cities. Republicans have spread themselves over the south and mountain states of the west. They live in more states. With a quicker connection, I'm sure I could find a number of states that a simple population shift would cause Democrats to be the ones trumpeting about how Republicans "just don't get it."

Advisory Opinion quotes from a Christian Science Monitor article that claims lowering taxes on the middle class and keeping them high on the wealthy keeps the middle class from striving for anything more. How absurd, I must say. More Americans joined the higher classes under Clinton, and more have fallen from those graces under Bush. If you tax the middle class less, then they by definition would have more money, which would put them on the path to the upper class, right?

I'm disappointed to learn that Shannen Doherty is a Republican.

The stock market surge is more likely attributed to continuity and a lack of uncertainty in the election.

The only other thing I notice so far is a fairly constant hatred for liberals...