AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

Show me that Scott Rasmussen is even a registered Republican, much more so an 'avowed Republican'. Show me any evidence that his polling is biased toward anybody or anything. Put your evidence where your mouth is.

ALL? Are you sure? Can you prove it? Seems to me that he pretty closely parallels Pew and Quinnipac. And he is rated very high for accuracy. Could it be that his accuracy beats almost all the media polls because THEY skew their data, polling question, favor Democrats? Hmmmm?

You haven't even shown it was wrong for the first time.

And nobody....I mean NOBODY but you and a couple of others or the extreme leftwing wacko blogs have challenged the Fordham assessment.

But okay, let's agree to disagree. You want to believe the alphabet media sources are pure as the driven snow and anything they print or publish or any poll they conduct is the real deal and you want to believe Rasmussen sucks. You have nothing but your own bias and prejudices to back it up with, but that's cool.

And that "one" outlet (as you consistently dismiss Pew and Quinnipac as relevant apparently) is consistently more accurate than the polls you seem to prefer.

You have never once addressed the truth of this and it has been brought to your attention at least 4 times now. Will you have the guts to do so now?

And the views suggest that the majority of the people continue to be more conservative than liberal:

1) They value freedom over the nanny state.

ohh... so that's why they are all upset about fraudulent anti-healthcare reform emails being reported, but never said a word about the warrantless wire taps. or having all of your belongings pawed through while you take your shoes off at the airport... or being told "you have to watch what you say".

but a question about government and healthcare... from what you guys are saying, it's only bad socialist, nanny state healthcare until we reach the age of 65. then it becomes perfectly okay to receive social security and medicare, burdening all of these children and children's children we keeping hearing about. not that we ever heard a word about their future impoverishment during the 8 year spending orgy of the iraq war and the tax cuts etc...

2) They have a healthy distrust of government that chooses to be obscure and opaque instead of up front and transparent.

you are kidding here, right? tell me, who was it again on cheney's energy task force? what was the original cost of the medicare drug benes ? 1.5 billion? then as soon as it's signed, woosh!, it's magically closer to 5 billion? please.... as if any of them are all that transparent.

probably a good thing they aren't... the complexity of all of this crap would freak a lot of people out..


3) They are less and less trusting of a media that has lost its objectivity and serves as shill for the Administration.

you are correct. Fox News and it's coterie of barking heads lost ground over the last couple of years among people who actually think about what they are being fed.

4) They trust themselves to spend their money on their own behalf than they trust the government to spend it for them.

sure... i trust them too. i trust them to always wave a flag as they try to starve the goose that lays the golden eggs. and to then continue complaining.

5) Growing majorities are objecting to the rapidly increasing size of government, runaway spending, and object to how the money is being used.

wouldn't necessarily say majorities. majority of republicans maybe. big surprise, that.

here, why don't we do this. let's all quit paying taxes of any kind. let's all keep our money and spend it the way we think we should.

let's see how long the country lasts after that.

I told you Cyclop that until you can back up your opinion, the discussion is over for me. I was not wrong about Fordham which I have clearly demonstrated. You have not clearly demonstrated anything other than your own repetitious opinion.