One more thing: take the time to educate oneself and read the Federalist Papers. The most cogent argument for our exceptionalism, and the direct, unfiltered explanation on what the Founder's had in mind when the met in Philadelphia. Those principles are not relics of a bygone era. Truth is not limited to the past and those of us who believe such things must never hesitate to have a response to the left and thier empty chair arguments (as we saw with the trouncing of President Obama by Mitt Romney).

I find nothing exceptional about the "collective." The USSR worked for the collective. Cuba works for the collective. They are exceptional in their failure. America is where it is because of an exceptional view of man as a f ree being, not limited by his affiliation to a group but as an individual. The left views our founding as an abomination because of the failings of slavery. Such thinking is saddening because the left has missed the whole point of the Constitution. Liberty before tyranny of the masses...see Shay's Rebellion. They provided a manner to alter the government when the political will of the country demanded it.

Geez, I thought this article was about the African American community and their support of a party (the Democratic Party) that regularly rejects what most blacks believe and the economic results of liberalism (i.e. high unemployment rate among blacks and latinos, support for gay marriage). And your comparison of Republicans to Nazi's, really? Childish. Show me, please, where any Republican said Wall Street is a ponzi scheme? What Rick Perry said was Social Security is a ponzi scheme. And isn't it? Some people pay in now for current beneficiaries and at a later time in the future someone will pay for your retirement benefits. Fits the definition of a ponzi scheme to me.

And there goes the Republican living in fantasy land, I don't have the ideal conservative, therefore to hell with the whole thing. First, I'm 38, hardly "old guard." What is the other option? Don't vote? Let McCaskill win by default? In the real world, sometimes it is the lesser of two evils when you are dealing with humans who by their nature are corrupt. You know the whole checks and balances things the Founder's came up with to balance the changing landscape in the House with "the most deliberate body in the world" in the Senate.

If stupid comments were the deciding factor on whether or not a candidate should step down, shouldn't have Biden stepped down by now? The guy goofed and came across like an out-of-touch fool. What is worse is loosing a good chance at winning the Senate and possibly even with 60 votes. Sometime conservatives are their own worst enemy. Akin wasn't the most conservative candidate of the group. It is the nature of a republic that sometimes the best choice won't be left standing. Mitt was not my guy, but I'd take the devil I do know, to the one I don't.

Ms. Pavlich, I'm stealing the first half of the last line of this post. I am posting it daily on my Facebook page, "The economy doesn't run on hope and change!"

EMTALA: Look it up Ms. FLuke, you should love it being a lawyer. A law that requires Emergency Departments (Department is the term we now use in the hospital industry) to treat any patient who walks in the door and stabalize before a patient can be transferred to another facility. Ms. Fluke rehashes the old liberal line, appealing to emotion over reason, that women will die if Republicans get in power. What ever happened to the cases of women testifying before Congress who just had to have a partial-birth abortion or they would die? Oh yeah, not one person testified because NARAL and other pro-abortion groups could not find a case that required this elective and murderous procedure. Fluke is a Frosty Flake.

Between learning to put condoms on bananas and cheating on standardized test (see Atlanta school district changing answers on tests) to teach economics? The goal of the education system is no longer about reading, writing and arithmetic, but dumbing down the populace so people like a community organizer with socialist tendencies can become president.

hey drunk...gasbag, did you know the only reason Bill Clinton signed a balanced budget was because Newt Gingrinch and the Republicans who took over Congress in 1994 forced him to? Can you gasbag tell me where in the Constitution the president writes the bills or has control of the purse strings?

#Georgetwin and others like him...Rise above the left and argue your point (which I am sure I will agree with) without demeaning yourself and other conservatives. Leave the name calling to liberals and garner support through reason and logic not calling Ms. Wasserman-Schwartz a deregatory name. Ridiculous.

In civics class we all learned the president and the presidential nominee of the opposing party are the de facto heads of their party. The idea that President Obama and his campaign did not know the language of their platform is either a lie, or indicative of this presidents failure to lead and be engaged in any meaningful way the last 3 1/2 years. Obamacare, let Nancy Pelosi ram it through Congress, details of the bill to follow; debt ceiling, let "others" direct the negotiations; taking God and Jerusalem out of the platform, someone else's fault; we belong to the government video, the host committees fault. Patterns are funny things and this president's patterns are unpresidential to say the least.