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I'm a classic fiscal conservative but socially liberal (which is entirely consistent if you think about conservatism free of religious doctrine and emotional baggage). I'm an economist who left the field to make significantly more money in the private sector.

As to your questions:

F/F was a serious disgrace - criminal and embarassing. Everyone involved in that debacle should be held to account for their actions and decisions. People's careers should have ended with that one and there should be a lot of people facing jail time. I don't really know how much went up to the President's office and what his involvement really was (facts, not specualtion). However I believe there should be an investigation - but not some Ken Starr type of partisan bulls**t, truly independent.

I believe in Religious Freedom so long as the exercize thereof does not interfere with exercize of the rights of others. Similarly, I believe the government should stay out of our bedrooms - as long as there are no animals or children involved.

But the flipside of that is that "special interest" rights should not interfere with the exercise of religious rights. If the government wants to insist that my business provide healthcare beyond what I am willing to offer as fair compensation for my employee's labor (ie. birth control) , then they should provide it outside of my responsibility or better yet provide a minimum level of 'universal healthcare' to all Americans and be done with it (ie. basic healthcare s**t is provided for and everything else is left to your own private insurance). I believe America has the best healthcare in the world, but most definitely not even close to the best system.

I don't think either party will solve these problems because they have become parodies of themselves and the country is so full of idiots who cleave to the party line and regurgitate whatever crap they hear from their respective talking point source without ever truly thinking about the reality or the stupidity of what they are saying.

I believe the Republican party left true Conservatism long ago and is currently being run by a bunch of idiots and whackos. I believe the Democrats couldn't manage a Kwik-e-mart properly or do a respectable job organizing a sock drawer. I'm honest enough to admit that it took both gangs of fools to create the financial mess we are in and recognize the reality that yes, Reagan lowered taxes - but then he raised them too.

yeah... that was a long response... I know.