If, in your heart, you can find peace flipping over, go for it. Years ago, I tried my hand at being a professional musician. Same crap that you have seen. Compromise my principles? Are you nuts? Then reality bit me in the butt. I'm out of the business now and I'm at peace. Still no compromise and happy that ( turn on Sinatra voice ) "I did it my way" ( voice off ) I wish you peace and happiness Mox. We should all be that lucky.

Being blind to color, or even ignorant of what label to attach to each hue, makes one free of the burden of carrying a catalogue of swatches of everyone's socio-political decor. A water-colored candidate would be ideal, but such purity, clarity, and essential usefulness don't exist in American politics. There are no statesmen active in government today, only corporate toadies; they are all colored money-green.

Damnit, you should've never gotten that Mac.

Say it ain't so, Mox.

LOL Iv allways done it myway....And still gona vote straight rep.............Nino

this is a great idea, although i think steve would do it a little better

you going independent? join us. join us.

IT'S THE END!!!!

Hey, good luck to you. I'll gladly contribute sycophantic comments. Why not be on the side that's winning?

I agree with you Moxie. Great post! Thank you for writing it, it's perfect as always.

If this isn't a duplicate post, Good Luck. If it is, sorry about the duplicate post.

And let's say for fun, conservatives do want me, and are just too shy to say so...

THIS conservative wants you! ;)

Will the new header at least keep the boots?

Say it ain't so, Moxie...I know things aren't so bright on the right, but they're still way better than anything the left has to offer.

On the other hand, maybe if one of those (Democrat) loons end up getting elected, it will be the "wake up call" that this country needs -- which you so eloquently describe. It'll be a hard four years though...

Will the new header at least keep the boots?

I hope so. There are few things hotter. Even without anyone in 'em.

Maybe you could the intro line as the cure for douchebaggery. That give you open shots at everyone and not change your general bent. ( Billy Joel Voice )" I love you just the way you are"( voice thankfully off)

Love ya, Mox

Yeah, there's a remnant gathering out here. We're watching the implosion in slo-mo and given up trying to impede the process. The group think has reached impenetrable levels. A few stray lines that came to mind:

These boots are made for stompin'

Purple prose

The enemy of my enemy is usually another jackass

Go Moxie. You are an original and I'll always be interested in where your boots are walkin'.

"If the right loses the White House in 2008, I won't cry."

I'm not getting emotionally invested in this campaign season either. If Bush would have lost in '04, I would have immediately developed a case of Tourette's Syndrome. However, now, even I don't like the Bush administration that much anymore.

Regarding the PeeJamma's Me-Duh debacle, Moxie was the "John McCain*" of conservative blogdom. She didn't sugarcoat and told them straight up how it was, but only to be vindicated after being shunned by the "in" crowd for a couple years. (Yes, Mox, this was supposed to be a compliment.)

*McCain was calling for more troops in Iraq long before the administration finally implemented The Surge.

Cool. Give 'em (more) hell!

Be true to you, a party means nothing, especially the parties that stand for nothing.

I have a feeling you will still be voting, so it really matters little how you are registered or how you campaign.

As long as you continue to be Moxie, Beautiful and I will continue to drop in and read stuff!

Mox, maybe you could style yourself an "independent conservative" like Jerry Doyle.

It seems that more than just the political season has you in a funk.

Whatever it is that has you so down, I hope will vanish as quickly as it came. We all experience loads of crap in our daily lives and you openly and bravely share yours with the world.

I know you're not big on the big 'G', but I am, so I'm wishing the most I can...

God Bless. I hope all is well with you and soon.

Raj is a liberal who talks conservative because of the War on Terror. Glenn is a libertarian, not a conservative.

Also remember that conservative is a way of thought, not a political party.

The Republican Party truly is the lesser of two evils today. But when your only realistic choice is between two evils....

From my standpoint, you and Steve have really seemed to grow bitter and angry over the past year. You seem to be reinforcing each other. But then who am I to judge?

Well whatever you decide, I wish you a great 2008.

I do whatever Moxie the Puppetmistress tells me. I am not in charge. I am just the evil on her periphery.

Sallyvee is right a lot. I hope she does not start a blog.

We have Coburn and Inhofe so, for my state at least, I don't think I could be more pleased. I am also disappointed in the Republican's from other states. Inhofe is virulently anti-anthropogenic global warming Inhofe's latest
Coburn is the Anti-earmark guy. But these guys from all your other states are lame and pretty worthless. Where are the Bill Frist's? Congress is full of money grubbing wild spenders. It is insane. We have to start shrinking government. Let go of the Dept of Education, the NEA, PBS funding. We have to get serious about ending the war on terror and that means finding the will to clean out Waziristan in Pakistan. My senators do me proud. But the rest of them pretty much suck eggs.

I am registered independent but I also accept a certain ampount of blame for the Clintons as I voted for Perot. But it doesn't mean I cannot learn.

Just so you know, if I come back here one more time, and there's not a new header, I'm going to punch something.

Not that you'll be able to tell, of course, but believe you me, little missie, something will have been punched.

Tanya, thanks for making me spit diet coke through my nose. The new header is in progress....I'm just slow!

Better a liberty-hating, big-spending and ineffectual Democrat than another liberty-hating, big-spending Republican!

I'll always remember who you are on the inside.

I have this idea that the Republican Party is like a person with a multiple personality disorder. All these guys running for the top office now are symbolic of a fragmented personality, each one fighting with the other to come out on top of what is essentially a broken and hopeless life. The only major one of the candidates who comes closest to representing an all around, true conservative Republican, is Fred Thompson. And, from the looks of him, he seems to be suffering from acute clinical depression. Who can blame him?

you make a vaild point. i have even considered raiding the dem primary and voting for hillary, just because i think she is more beatable. and despite her claims of 'change' (the general left platform), there's not any of them really looking to change anything except their own office.