The libertarians WILL shrink the gov't? They WILL NEVER get elected because they WILL NEVER be (and have never been, I might add) more than a fringe party. Your pipe dream of a third party as the answer is a CRACK PIPE one at that! There are much-more conservative, young heavyweights coming up in 4-8 years (e.g. Rubio, Ryan, Rand Paul et al). We have to HOLD ON in the meantime! If you contribute to O's re-election, it will be too late! That is REALITY! Don't you get it?!

TNconservative, that is...

My point exactly. Thank you. And Capt-Call knows it. He/she just can't bear to admit it.

Two words: SUPREME COURT! (Not to mention the myriad other federal justices the POTUS appoints.) I agree there's much to dislike about Romney, but answer me this: Would Romney have chosen Sotomayor and Kagan? Would Obama have chosen Roberts and Alito? I rest my case.

The black church is the key. I won't be listened to as I'm not the right color. My prayer is that more like Ms Parker will join her and they might, just maybe, bend some ears.

Ms. Parker hits the nail on the head: You change the black clergy and you change the black community. I cannot even imagine what a difficult - if not impossible - task this is, though. Calling people to account for their actions has consequences: Fewer butts in the pews! How many pastors will make that sacrifice? When you consider that a disproportionate number of black churches also subscribe to "name it and claim it" theology, not many. As for telling them the truth about the GOP - that therein lies the ticket out of the ghetto - that would require an unthinkable level of humility. Again, not many would be willing to go there.

The first explains how blacks can have an above-average church attendance rate and the highest out-of-wedlock pregnancy rate (by far) at the same time. The second explains the slavery to the Democrat party. The GOP - the party that stands for individual liberty and personal responsibility (i.e. inner city blacks' ticket off of the Democrat plantation) is the "white man's party."

My friend left and now pastors in a vibrant, life-supporting (and multi-cultural) church and has never looked back. The results we see today have been wrought by churches such as the one in which my friend was brought up, through two major means: (1) Placing no emphasis whatsoever on biblical holiness or purity and (2) fomenting hatred of the white man, a la Reverend White.

Ms. Parker is the first one to touch on something I've known for years: The blame for the demise of black society lies squarely on the shoulders of the black church. A black friend of mine was raised in one of the most prominent black churches in the SF Bay Area and left over the abortion issue. When he approached the senior pastor about his concerns, he was told something to the effect, "If Roe v. Wade is overturned, guess who's going to end up in the back-alley abortion clinics? Black folks!" When my friend retorted that far more black babies are killed by abortion than women were ever harmed in back-alley clinics, he insisted that going back to pre-Roe v Wade would be worse.

The black church is the key. I won't be listened to as I'm not the right color. My prayer is that more like Ms Parker will join her and they might, just maybe, bend some ears.

Ms. Parker hits the nail on the head: You change the black clergy and you change the black community. I cannot even imagine what a difficult - if not impossible - task this is, though. Calling people to account for their actions has consequences: Fewer butts in the pews! How many pastors will make that sacrifice? When you consider that a disproportionate number of black churches also subscribe to "name it and claim it" theology, not many. As for telling them the truth about the GOP - that therein lies the ticket out of the ghetto - that would require an unthinkable level of humility. Again, not many would be willing to go there.