And I welcome Macs addition of some tech news blogging to the politics.

Now I live in Texas and we have approx. 2 million illegals in my state. Recently Governor Rick Perry went off on the federal government because the gangs such as MS-13 have moved into our state are are creating havoc everywhere and the feds have done little to help states fight this crime wave and terror, and today Congressman Ted Poe was on Fox complaining that Texas will arrest, prosecute and lock up these thugs only to have ICE refuse to take them when they are released from jail.

But back to AJ. He made one mistake. Apparently he lives in Hendron, Va. And he complained that the illegals that lived there violated the “housing” codes of the city and would live ten to an apartment and he thought the city should enforce the housing codes and not let the illegals do that.

I tore him up. As you can imagine. The next thing I knew AJ was going off on me, telling me I was the problem with the GOP, not the solution, and because of people like me we would lose in ‘08. When I asked why he thought Texas should have to carry the load for his bleating heart for illegals and why he was not upset with illegals violating our federal laws but was very, very upset that they violated his city’s housing laws, he got really angry and told me I was banned from his website. And so I was.

Now, I may not always agree with Mac, but he allows me the freedom to voice my opinon, knowing I will always be polite in my disent. AJ simply wants those who agree with him. I have found that those who most claim the mantle of tolerance are often the least tolerant toward others.

I am not a McCain fan, said I would not vote for him, and didn’t in the primaries, but he was the lesser of two evils as far as I was concerned. I certainly hope he learned that pandering to the illegals gained him not one damn vote.

If we have Eric Cantor and AJ as the shining lights of the GOP, there won’t be a GOP more than another 8-10 years. I’m not sure where the rest of us will be, but it won’t be in the GOP.

I agree with one of the posters at AJ’s site: Huckabee gave us John McCain because he sucked out the religious conservatives from the more conservative candidates and McCain became the default candidate. What a shame. I insisted I wouldn’t vote for him in February. But then I hadn’t counted on Obama, so McCain got my vote a few days back.

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/7177

Of course, I can’t respond to SS’s moronic view points as I bucked him on the Shamnesty Bill and he has banned me from his site. Guess he didn’t like the fact that I had bothered to read the damn bill and could argue against his “let them go to the end of the line while they stay here” argument.

I have long said that the tendancy to become Democrat Lite would not work. And now, the left is espousing bunny fuzzy feelings saying we should now all try to get along after they spent the last 8 years bashing Bush as a damn hobby.

Core conservative values are pretty simple:

Lower taxes
Less government
Personal responsibility
Let the free markets work and don’t place government in the middle of the road to stop them from succeeding
Seal our borders against invaders
Remove the illegals who have violated federal law by entering unasked
Protect the citizens by any means necessary

Anything else falls under one of those.

It is going to be a hard road to return to the conservatism that Reagan made work. Too many like Stratus who thinks that Reaganism is dead and we need to move on. Stop being what made us successful. Be more like the left and we will all get along.

My God, when you have people who claim to be conservatives that constantly bash true conservatism, how the hell hard is the road to return going to be?