I want to vote for someone in four years ...

I've been thinking about the bleakness of the quality of politicians for whom we have opportunity to vote.

Other than Sarah Palin, there hasn't been anyone I'd vote FOR in this last election, other than Fred Thompson, who got out too early in the primaries. By the time it got to the election, it was "which is the least objectionable."

It seems that everyone is trying to be so moderate, that they aren't standing for anything. I want a fire-breathing, small-government, tax-cutting, pork-deleting, non-compromising dragon. I do not want a moderate.

Conservatives are becoming so moderate, that the liberals are turning us into another European country. (To those who only know what they see on the evening news ... this is NOT a good thing.)

I just wonder, if a third party sprang up NOW, and committed themselves to being conservatives ... real conservatives ... if in the next 4 years, they could give both the republicans and democrats a run for their money.

I'm almost tempted by the libertarians, if it weren't for the goofy drug-legalization aspect. (And don't they have some kind of thing going on where they don't want laws barring sex with minors? Not sure about this one ...)

The libertarians don't seem to take into account that mankind is basically evil. We NEED laws regulating behavior, or else we will have Lord of the Flies, lived out in front of us.

But we DON'T need socialism.

So how do you find someone to vote for, and a party to join, that understands, and is willing to stand on, that broad platform that lies between socialism and anarchy? It exists. Lots of folks in the past stood on it, but it's deserted now.

If someone steps up, and occupies that space, I think (I hope!) a great many Americans would be delighted to follow him or her in four years.