Thus goes the Conservatism is Dead thread from the media. This time the “we’ve got to change” comes from Eric Cantor:

“Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, poised to ascend to House Republicans’ No. 2 leader this week, said the Republican Party in Washington is no longer “relevant” to voters and must stop simply espousing principles. Instead, it must craft real solutions to health care and the economy.

“Where we have really fallen down is, we have lacked the ability to be relevant to people’s lives. Let’s set aside the last eight years, and our falling down in living up to expectations of what we said we were going to do,” Mr. Cantor told The Washington Times in his district office outside of Richmond. “It’s the relevancy question.”

As chief deputy whip, Mr. Cantor, 45, was the logical choice to move up when Republicans’ current whip, Rep. Roy Blunt, stepped aside – something Mr. Blunt announced days after Republicans lost at least 20 seats in the House.

A week before Wednesday’s leadership elections, Mr. Cantor offered a bleak assessment of his party and where it’s fallen: technology, preparedness for political realities, such as the next round of redistricting, and pursuing its ideals.

Most of all, he said, Republicans have been content to offer principles, rather than concrete solutions. Voters, he said, have punished them for it.

“It’s the roads, it’s going to the gas station, that’s still there when the price will bump back up. It’s education, it’s health care. These are the issues, frankly, that we have not been on offense with,” he said.”

Conservatism has always had the answer to problems. Again, more than 70 percent of Americans consider themselves conservative in their overall views. Whether healthcare or the economy in general. Even honest liberals know that less taxes on the people spurs the economy. The solution to healthcare isn’t government healthcare, but more choices through the free market. The reason 8 million more people voted for Obama than McCain is that they bought into th lie that Obama is a centrist politician. Nothing is further from the truth.

A very liberal friend of mine told me that my ideas – conservative ideals – were outdated, that we needed government run health care. I responded, “Ok, how much you willing to pay for it?” To which he replied, “Well nothing, it will be provided by the government!”

I then showed him how much he would stand to pay in taxes for such a system to be put in place and of course he didn’t believe me. But the point is that if you want the government to take care of your “needs” then the question is “how much are you willing to pay for it?”

Americans didn’t answer that question by voting for Barack Obama, but they’re about to find out.

Something tells me that they won’t be happy….just a hunch.