The Real Leaders of the Right

Now we know who the leaders of the Republican Party are: Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich, Joe the Plumber and a 14-year-old from Atlanta.

In case you missed it, Jonathan Krohn, Bill Bennett devotee and budding author of "Define Conservatism," was a big hit at CPAC over the weekend and made the front page of the New York Times style section on Sunday.

The GOP has struggled of late to recruit young people to its cause, but when you're relying on a 14-year-old to elucidate the principles of your party, you've got problems.

Not that Gingrich, Steele, Limbaugh or Republicans in Congress are doing any better. Gingrich's latest claim to fame? He coined a phrase, 'Drill baby, drill," that even many Republicans thought was totally asinine. Or maybe Steele coined it, as he claims. Who knows. More to the point, who cares.

Can you imagine if Democrats put forward such an inept cast of characters? Sure, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are are not exactly anything to write home about. Neither was John Kerry or Al Gore circa 2000. But in their darkest moments, I'm not sure the Democrats had it as bad as the GOP does now.

A new report by Democracy Corps states:

Voters clearly think Limbaugh is a major force in the party and indeed, a near majority of voters, 49 percent, say that Limbaugh has too much influence over Republican ideas and direction – compared to just 15 percent who say he has too little. This is happening at a time when two-thirds say "the average voter" has too little influence over the Republican Party.

62 percent of voters, including a similar percentage of moderate Republicans, say that the Republican Party is embracing the "same old ideas and leaders it has relied on for the past 20 years" rather than seeking out new leaders and fresh ideas. With Rush Limbaugh's vision and values so strong among the conservative Republicans who are the heart of the party's base, Republican leaders carry a heavy weight when they attempt to position themselves to act for the broader electorate.

Conventional wisdom says that if the economy continues to tank and the stimulus fails, Obama and the Democrats will take the blame in 2010 and 2012. Maybe so, but even if that happens it's just as likely that Republicans won't get any credit because they didn't offer any credible ideas of their own. It was all "drill, baby, drill" and "cut, baby, cut."

Comments (44)

1. No time to read.....but another Rush thingy....

   Here's your proof, SRJ & MASK! Keep whistling!

   Posted by Happy at 03/11/2009 @ 11:09am

2. I just find it funny that as Mr Berman points out the Repubs have got guys like Rush and Newt...

   and Rush and Newt are going after EACH OTHER with the long knives!

   Posted by Mask at 03/11/2009 @ 11:16am

3. BTW, Mr Berman, wouldn't mock Jonathan Crohn for being 14.

   In 21 years, he'll be old enough Constitutionally to become President of the United States...

   and that might be just about the right amount of time, for when the public will elect another Republican President!

   heheh

   Posted by Mask at 03/11/2009 @ 11:18am

4. The Republicans have no way to make themselves look good right now.

   With Clinton, all they had to do was wait until his personality flaws gave them an opening, and then pounce. They know Obama's not gonna give them the same opportunity.

   They're effectively silenced for the moment, waiting to see what Obama's weakness is. It essentially proves they have no useful ideas.

   Who want to be the leader of that? Apparently no one.

   Posted by MyParadigm at 03/11/2009 @ 11:23am

5. As long as Al Gore and Al Sharpton types are still around, I'd have to call it a dead heat.

   Posted by PRESTERJOHNofASIA at 03/11/2009 @ 12:01pm

6. Again, GOP problem isn't no leaders....maybe bad leaders....but their main problem is WHICH leader?

   Newt?-----"You've got to want the president to succeed," said the former House Speaker. "You're irrational if you don't want the president to succeed. Because if he doesn't succeed the country doesn't succeed... I don't think anyone should want the president of the United States to fail."

   Or Rush?

   Posted by Mask at 03/11/2009 @ 12:05pm

7. No time to read.....but another Rush thingy....

   Posted by Happy at 03/11/2009 @ 11:09am

   Every time someone speaks or writes Flush's name his ego grows. It is an entertaining topic, Flush is a comedian and talking about him as leader of the republican party is amusing. But I fear to feed the ego.

   Posted by Extraneous at 03/11/2009 @ 12:15pm

8. GOP "leaders"? Even Palin was one for a few weeks.

   Far more interesting is who are the GOP Owners.

   Posted by sloper at 03/11/2009 @ 12:27pm

9. But I fear to feed the ego.----Posted by Extraneous at 03/11/2009 @ 12:15pm

   So do David Frum, Bill Kristol, and Newt. (probably a lot more cowed into silence like Phil Ginchey or Michael Steele!)

   Posted by Mask at 03/11/2009 @ 1:03pm

10. "The GOP has struggled of late to recruit young people to its cause, but when you're relying on a 14-year.."

    The GOP needs to follow the example o teh Dems by getting them young ...

    I will take 1 kid who at 14 was begining to understand the US capitalistic economic system and how it has build America into a power house for all it citizens over 100,000 indoctrinated lumps we produce in school today.

    The school systems. And that is why we have generations that can't read their dipolama that is useless in the jobs of an advanced society.

    Students leave the Public Schools today without any understanding of economics, how the US was formed and by whom, they have no idea how govt functions, they have no idea how wealth is created or what it is...and that the producers are the ones who built the country and its products and create the jobs they will need...and worst of all, they are taught that to work hard and keep the fruits of ones work is greedy and that becoming wealthy is immoral...they are taught proit is a dirty word.

    They are taught the source of wealth and jobs is the govt and that unions are the way to build the country..that real hero is the guy who puts lug nuts on trucks on the assembly line and that the entrepenuer is the enemy. They are taught that the entire nation and where we are was built on the backs to a few hundred thousand slaves in the southern states(who lost the war) by picking cotton and corn in the middle of the industrial revolution in the north...

    I could go on for days...

    But the point is made,,,

    If we do not teach the young, like the lad in the picture how America really was designed and why it was successdful, we will all be employed and unionised...by the govt..and making $ 35k a year but free health care is cool.

    Posted by YourJomamma at 03/11/2009 @ 1:05pm

11. I would bet only 5% of the population actually practices some sort of free enterprise system and the rest of the people work for it in some level...which is fine...

    And that the 14 year old in the picture has a better chance, if he is allowed to grow in his education away from the indoctrination that is todays schools... of earning a higher income, better life and most likely can have most of his classmates in the public schools...working for him and others like him on a macro scale....

    Posted by YourJomamma at 03/11/2009 @ 1:10pm

12. A couple of things:

    First off, I was actually impressed by Krohn. Forget about whether the principles he was talking about were unique to conservatism, the kid is 14 years old and making an intelligent speech regarding principle.

    Second, for whatever reason, I actually watched the Limbaugh speech at CPAC last night, and was actually somewhat impressed. I know, I know, reactions of horror will follow. Yes, there was a whole series of distortions of what liberalism continues to defend, but what was fascinating to me was the sense of trying to create a coherent conservative philosophical framework, particularly one that addressed what's been a gaping hole in that framework for some time: poverty. I think that's a good thing; I think it's good if conservatism can be coherently framed around a set of principles, because that could, if conservatives find a strong candidate in 2012, allow for presidential debates where principle itself is directly engaged. I would love to see that. Some of the debates this time around, particularly the very last one, did a solid job of that (and I thought the final one was excellent on both sides, btw), and I would like to see something like that come 2012.

    Posted by Thrawn at 03/11/2009 @ 1:14pm

13. Ari,

    It might give your article more credibility if you would have added a few critical facts.

    1. the poll was conducted by James Carville And Stan Greenberg, Democratic pollsters and Strategists

    2. the poll was weighted towards moderate and liberal Democrats and Independents.

    "Democracy Corps is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to making the government of the United States more responsive to the American people. It was founded in 1999 by James Carville and Stanley Greenberg. Democracy Corps provides free public opinion research and strategic advice to those dedicated to a more responsive Congress and Presidency.

    The organization was born out of outrage over the impeachment of President Clinton when the leadership in Congress preferred radical partisanship to addressing the issues which really matter to American families. Following the 2000 election, Democracy Corps rededicated itself after the presidential candidate with the most votes and the most popular policy agenda did not become the President of the United States.

    What we do

    Democracy Corps seeks to play a vital role in shaping the political debate, providing research, strategic advice, and a public voice to the issues important to the American people. It acts as a resource for the unions, public interest organizations, party and congressional leaders who are working for a more responsive government."

    Posted by antisocialist at 03/11/2009 @ 1:28pm

14. Posted by antisocialist at 03/11/2009 @ 1:28pm

    You're right, Larry...I'd ignore Democracy Corps and listen to Newt Gingrich on Rush.

    See: Posted by Mask at 03/11/2009 @ 12:05pm

    Posted by Mask at 03/11/2009 @ 3:11pm

15. "GOP "leaders"? Even Palin was one for a few weeks.

    Far more interesting is who are the GOP Owners.

    Posted by sloper at 03/11/2009 @ 12:27pm"

    The mega corporations? The MIC?

    Posted by BlackFrancis at 03/11/2009 @ 3:45pm

16. It's funny, I seem to remember the Right declaring the Dems DOA in 2003 to 2004. Look what happened in 2006.

    I doubt that Limbaugh considers himself a leader of the Repubs, as opposed to a leader of conservatives.

    And, let's face it, progs consider anyone right of center a "neo-con", "conservative", or "new-con repub blood sucking tick". It's just one big block of evil.

    And before you get all huffy Mask, I'm sure conservatives feel the same way about anyone left of center.

    Posted by twillie at 03/11/2009 @ 5:18pm

17. The Republicans have turned into cartoon characters.

    Posted by TripLBee at 03/11/2009 @ 6:33pm

18. Hmmm 15% at 12% I was off by 3% points.

    Posted by V at 03/11/2009 @ 7:08pm

19. Posted by twillie at 03/11/2009 @ 5:18pm

    Nope...read the write-up here on Ross Douthat.

    Meanwhile WE are all "Marxists"...for espousing stuff that EISENHOWER endorsed.

    Posted by Mask at 03/11/2009 @ 8:37pm

20. allow me:

    "No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. ... No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations."

    <<>>

    "If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."

    Posted by frosty zoom at 03/11/2009 @ 9:26pm

21. I am not sure having a perceived "leader" is much of a requirement. Ideas will generate a front runner for a party. The democrats did not really have a leader during the last campaign until the end. You just never know how it will all turn out. If the democrats keep acting like they are today, they will be thrown out in 2010. For example, Nancy-let them eat cake- Peloci and her tantrum airplane issues will wear rather badly with the public during these challenging economic times. There is a rather high probability that the economy will remain in the toilet during the election and the public will let their position be heard. Lets see, what happened to Marie Antoinette? Oh well, just remember '94.

    Posted by pyeatte at 03/11/2009 @ 10:55pm

22. BERMAN: Conventional wisdom says that if the economy continues to tank and the stimulus fails, Obama and the Democrats will take the blame in 2010 and 2012. Maybe so,......

    Just "Maybe so"?

    My "conventional wisdom" of the anti-growth spending, taxation & destroy-the-wealth policies being put in place, big piece by big piece, just about guarantees it...conventionally bloviating...HAHAHA!

    Posted by Happy at 03/11/2009 @ 10:56pm

23. So , by their own admissions, Republicans are .... anti-social?

    Posted by Freewheelin_Franklin at 03/11/2009 @ 11:35pm

24. Two or three days ago, Mathews aired poll results that proclaimed Mitt Romney as the person republicans considered their leader. Rube, Palin and Volcano sympathizer, Bobby Jindal also made the list.

    Their best bet is a big state moderate like Crist from Fla. Maybe try watering down the Kool-Aid a little bit...Cut out the cheap political kabuki theatre like "Joe The Plumber." *

    Who knows...4 years is a long time.

    *Joe the Plumber wrote a book, which I'm certain is hillarious, but...what cataclysmic series of events in the multiverse led to this? And, when will this universe be ripped apart?

    Posted by koroviev at 03/11/2009 @ 11:52pm

25. BERMAN: Conventional wisdom says that if the economy continues to tank and the stimulus fails, Obama and the Democrats will take the blame in 2010 and 2012. Maybe so,......

    Just "Maybe so"?

    My "conventional wisdom" of the anti-growth spending, taxation & destroy-the-wealth policies being put in place, big piece by big piece, just about guarantees it...conventionally bloviating...HAHAHA!

    Posted by Happy at 03/11/2009 @ 10:56pm

    Yeah, Happ, maybe so. A lot of people have a pretty decent grasp of the magnitude of the disaster that Republicans have left us, after 28 years of incredibly piss-poor "governance". There are levels on which they understand that the country is, well, screwed, and they know who did it. They may well get pissed off if things don't improve quickly, but they're not likely to return to power the very idiots who they know created the situation in the first place.

    Posted by jmusolino at 03/12/2009 @ 01:34am

26. If the democrats keep acting like they are today, they will be thrown out in 2010. For example, Nancy-let them eat cake- Peloci and her tantrum airplane issues will wear rather badly with the public during these challenging economic times. Posted by pyeatte at 03/11/2009 @ 10:55pm

    Well pyeatte, you're quite incorrect about Speaker Pelosi. ABC has rebutted the Pelosi travel abuse innuendo by conservatives trying to smear her.

    abcnews.go.com/Politics/ story?id=7057198&page=1

    "The treasure trove of documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Department of Defense regarding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's use of military aircraft doesn't seem to prove the organization's allegation that Pelosi has made "unprecedented demands" for the flights."

    "In fact, it appears that Pelosi uses military aircraft less often than her predecessor, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

    The documents cover the period from January 2007 to November 2008 and show that Pelosi made the equivalent of 20 round-trips between Washington (Andrews Air Force Base) and San Francisco. That's an average of less than one round-trip per month. In contrast, former Speaker Hastert traveled home to his Illinois district virtually every weekend and, his former aides tell ABC News, he would almost always travel on military aircraft. Like Hastert, Pelosi also occasionally leads Congressional delegations on foreign trips (the documents show six foreign trips: one to Asia, 3 to the Middle East and 2 to Europe."

    Yet, we have found out about an 'executive assassination ring' running out of former VP Cheney's office by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.

    www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/investigative_reporter_ seymour_hersh_describes_executive_assassination_ring

    Posted by hdthoreau at 03/12/2009 @ 02:05am

27. If Krohn is the future of the party, then perhaps the party has a future.

    Posted by journalisk at 03/12/2009 @ 04:32am

28. For those whose brain is frozen in Keynesian Economics, Obama's plan will not work. The Brits tried it years ago and decided to reject it. I am surprised Obama did not call on the same brains who provided our country with economics via the University of Chicago, where he hails from, aka Milton Friedman. The way the economy is going (south) should alert Obama to the fact that the ultimate intelligence is what stock holders believe about the markets and how they react. Obama's plan has absolutely no confidence from the markets thus far. And while the largess of the United States is being squandered by inaction, Obama continues to trumpet values of socialism. Never mind that he speaks outright lies about ear marks, taxes, and spending our way out of a financial hole, etc. In short his policies must fail if we are to remain a constitutional democracy full of hope for the youth of our nation. Half of my IRA has been bled out from last summer. No one heeded George Bush and John McCain's warning several years ago. Then we find of late that Berny and George took advantage of Fannie Mae and Freddie mac to enrich themselves illegally. I find that Rush Limbaugh speaks pretty plain and the egg heads don't like it. I am thankful that we have an alternative voice which Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Obama want to shut down. Gives you the feeling that the sting of their mistakes and mismanagement are galling.

    Posted by shorewater at 03/12/2009 @ 09:59am

29. No one heeded George Bush and John McCain's warning several years ago. Posted by shorewater at 03/12/2009 @ 09:59am

    Oh now, that is rich ..!! lol. That GWB sure was a smart cookie..!! He saw the signs... What are you smoking ?? When you make statements like Dubya "warned us", you realize, no one can take you seriously, right?

    YOUR IRA has bled out ..?? Since last summer you say ?? Oh I'm with you brudda..!! DAMN YOU OBAMA AND YOUR POLICIES OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS !!

    One thing maybe we all can agree on... OUR country's economy is in the tank... And if anyone has an easy button to hit, NOW IS THE TIME TO HIT IT....

    Tell me, should we just slam more Tax cuts for the upper crust ?? Yeah that works... Sad fact for ALL Americans, our Govt. is broke. If it were a buisness, it would be over. If a buisness spends more cash than it has and overextends itself, what happens to it..?? Taxes MUST and will have to be raised. SO WHAT?

    BTW, it was a great buisness decision to spend 3,000,000,000,000 (all said and done) on that little vacation to the Persian Gulf... Tell me, my 'Conservative' brethren, where were your 'conservative' voices for the past 8 years... ?? WHAT A JOKE.

    Shorewater, I'm impressed, where did you get your Economics degree...??

    Ditto.

    Posted by Vvf1969 at 03/12/2009 @ 10:48am

30. Vvf1969,

    Probably would not be a bad idea for you to go to the website below in order to learn economics, a subject you appear to know nothing about:

    http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/

    Posted by sjchermak at 03/12/2009 @ 11:41am

31. Don't forget the inimitable Victoria Jackson abd the unsipid Dennis Miller!

    Posted by montanpete at 03/12/2009 @ 1:14pm

32. The premise of this essay is faulty. Rush Limbaufght wasn't the last I knew, two months ago, a Republican.

    He then was registered unaffilated.

    On the other hand, he is indeed a voice of conservatism.

    It's apparent if "Air America" is to ever compete with conservative talk radio it'll need to hire conservative show hosts.

    It's truly pathethic that the President of the United States felt so threatened by mere entertainers so that deemed it necessary to devote time & energy contending with Rush & Jim Crammer.

    Perhaps it was because the impostor was so embroiled with talk show enterainers that he had such unususl difficulty in filling cabinet posts. No?

    Obama's hopelessly lost without his teleprompter to tell him what to do. He's become farce in action.

    Posted by Banshee5 at 03/12/2009 @ 1:36pm

33. Posted by Banshee5 at 03/12/2009 @ 1:36pm

    "He's become farce in action."

    Yeah, totally! Like remember that time he invaded a country that wasn't a threat to us under false pretenses, then landed on an aircraft carrier to announce Mission Accomplished half a decade early? What a goof!

    Or, hey, you remember that time he ignored warnings of an impending terrorist strike so he could lounge at his ranch? What a buffoon!

    Or, even better, you remember how he claimed the US doesn't torture, when in fact we'd been using the same "enhanced interrogation techniques" as the Spanish Inquisition? The poltroon!

    Or you remember all those times he massacred the English language, or that time he couldn't define the $10 word: sovereignty?

    Wait a minute....

    Posted by soperja at 03/12/2009 @ 2:09pm

34. Anybody disagree with Newt Gingrich when he said Rush Limbaugh was "irrational"?

    If so...speak up.

    Posted by Mask at 03/12/2009 @ 2:27pm

35. 14 year-old Jonathan Krohn seems about perfect for the Right. Most GOP voters in this state seem to have about an eighth grade education.

    Posted by soglenn at 03/12/2009 @ 2:27pm

36. I could go on for days...

    Posted by YourJomamma at 03/11/2009 @ 1:05pm | ignore this person | warn this person

    you have,

    for years.

    Posted by emile duBois at 03/12/2009 @ 2:54pm

37. Posted by Thrawn at 03/11/2009 @ 1:14pm | ignore this person | warn this person

    cons have been strong on principle, but a zero on execution of those principles.

    this also defines you, mon cher ami.

    Posted by emile duBois at 03/12/2009 @ 3:00pm

38. SJC... Get real lil guy... Educates me sir !!... Posting a link , genius.. Dazzling... I'll get right on that teach... Im sure you have your itty bitty ditto head wrapped all around economic theory... No really, Im sure of this... You know. I defer to your genius. Does listening to an obese flamethrower 3 hrs a day make you an economist..?? My bad.. In most trailer parks it makes you Magna Cum Laude..

    Im sure you and your republican ditto head ilk have all the answers to the Bush crisis... For as long as I have posted on here, you and your kind have given us nothing but the same' ol crackers ...

    I by no means pretend to understand the depth of the economic crisis... But I am an educated man with a masters degree furnished by good ol' uncle sam...(Desert storm vet/Iraq free. vet) and have travelled the world, giving me a decent sense of perspective.... And you ?? Thought so.

    Cling to them gunz lil guy... You might need them, if you believe your boy Glenn Beck...

    And i'm sorry for the trailer park digg... Im sure its real nice inside.

    STAY OF THE AM DIAL ... IT WILL ROT YOUR BRAIN !!

    Posted by Vvf1969 at 03/12/2009 @ 10:27pm

39. This is another childish attempt to hide the outrageous Obama budget behind conservative bogeymen!

    What has become of the horn which in the distance wailed the promise of honesty, sacrifice and bipartisan cooperation? It is has turned into Obama at the throttle of the old politics rushing America, pulling a hundred freight cars of liberal programs into the darkness of a massive disaster.

    The same people who hoped for, but failed to get an American debacle in Iraq, are now engineering a fiasco right here at home.

    McCain was pulling ahead, had a 3 to 4 point lead, when the financial crises struck. A massive economic downturn loomed, the country blamed it on reckless Republican policies and gave Obama the top job, in the hope that he could avert or ease the looming depression.

    How is President Obama helping America, dangling from the side of a cliff, chin herself up to safety? He is hanging heavy new weights, vast new programs, onto her legs.

    There has never been anything as irresponsible, as doctrinaire, as careless of the nation's future, since Calhoun, in the teeth of a recoiling North, sought to advance nullification and slavery.

    Posted by Hugo_Pirovano at 03/13/2009 @ 4:57pm

40. McCain was pulling ahead,

    hahahahaha

    and

    hahahahaha

    Posted by emile duBois at 03/13/2009 @ 5:58pm

41. It is has turned into Obama at the throttle of the old politics rushing America, pulling a hundred freight cars of liberal programs into the darkness of a massive disaster.

    block that metaphor.

    sheesh.

    Posted by emile duBois at 03/14/2009 @ 01:44am

42. We have elected, with the help of the feckless main stream media, who thought this was an American Idol contest,the most ill prepared person ever to the be in the office of President. No one listened to what he was really saying with his "change" mantra. Now we are seeing his full intent to change what Amerca has always been into HIS vision of socializing America, punishing the hard working and responsible who love this cøuntry and who know the harder they work the greater their reward and the better the country will be. This man, Obama,seems to care little that those savers and workers have now lost their retirement in the market. He deliberately talked of disaster and doom to frighten everyone to beleive the stimulus package had to be passed unread ,over night then took a three day vacation before he signed it, not in Washington with members of congress behind him but alone in Denver. What he wanted was to force his pet projects down the throat of the nation while it was on it's knees. He will create a nation of dependent people who will vote for his giveaways at the expense of the few workers who produce. We now have full blown Chicago politics in the White House. He has lied his head of in these first days in office. This is not the American way and he needs to be stopped. We need a thousand more Limbaughs to wake up the nation.

    Posted by Katie10 at 03/14/2009 @ 12:44pm

43. " who know the harder they work the greater their reward and the better the country will be. This man, Obama,seems to care little that those savers and workers have now lost their retirement in the market. "

    And have not passed through your mind that those savers are the workers of the USA and it is the savage uncontrolled capitalists and the Republican 'no-control' policies over financial institutions that have produced this crack? Don't you realize that in the wake of this event a few rich people have gotten ever richer while 95% of the population has lost value on their assets, specially homes? I don't think the American way is Limbaugh's way. We are not (or should not be) people of hatred. Certainly the American people have rejected the selfish, trickle-down policies that your party defends.

    Posted by Frank42 at 03/15/2009 @ 02:38am

44. Frank, You apparently do not know that all the deregulation started in the Carter years which caused the housing crash. The Republicans brought forth corrective legislation more than once very recently when it got bad only to have the Democrats kill the bills.They were intent on making sure that everyone could have a home even if they put nothing down and knew they could not make the payments.It was not that the most successful in our country got richer it was the fact that housing got out of reach. They pay 60% of all taxes and provide our jobs. You do not kill the goose that lays the eggs. Anyone with basic economics knows this. Obama will make things worse. Most wealthy people were heavily invested in the market and have had very heavy losses. They will not be hiring this year. The ordinary person is just about wiped out. Obama needs to grow up and stop blaming the past administration and fix the banking situationfirst and leave his totally unaffordable agenda of way too expensive alternative fuels wind and solar ( how about natural gas, cheap and abundant and nuclear?)and national health care alone now.He is really showing his his lack of any leadership experience. He must get it together for the sake of the nation. It is our country and not his to change.

    Posted by Katie10 at 03/15/2009 @ 3:59pm