If conservatism is so wrong, than why has it worked throughout history? Why does spending and fiscal irresponsibility always send the economy into a tailspin? In everyday life a family that lives on debt, will survive until they get in too deep. I personally live in a fiscally conservative manner, which means i pay my bills, have a balanced budget and amazing credit (and I'm only 23). Why is this not the correct way to live? I agree that socially i may have more moderate views, but take it from someone who actually studied business, economics, and finance (and will soon be going for masters), it has been proven over and over again that the correct way to run a government (financially) is conservative. About Rush, have you ever listened to him? There is a reason he is the most powerful man in media, there is a reason that Obama personally attacks him, he is right 99% of the time. If you dig through his satire, all his arguments make sense, and if you have an ounce of common sense, you have to agree with his principles. His principles happen to be founded in conservatism. So maybe you don't appreciate his humor, but don't claim that he is the downfall of the GOP. The GOP being filled with Democrats in Republican clothing (ie McCain and his "moderate" cronies) are the downfall of the GOP. If more were conservative, than they would actually stand out of the crowd on capital hill. One final point, just in case you dont believe that conservatism is the way. How did Obama win the election? He promised (along with the world) TAX CUTS! Hmmm isn't that a Republican principle? Now as soon as he gets elected, of course he will raise taxes among everybody who actually pays taxes, but the fact is that whenever he gives a speech he always tries to sound Reagonesk, even the correspondents will comment on how much he sounds like Reagon, yet as soon as he finishes talking, he raises taxes and breaks all promises, just some food for thought, also do just a little smidgen of research next time, he does take opposing viewpoints, and relishes in opposition (in order to prove them wrong). Nice attempt at making some kind of flimsy half thought through argument though!

c54cotter,
You said conservatism was wrong,not me.I will say that the last eight years of conservatism have been a total disaster.Rush will not.
Rush is a very shrewd business man but does not live his life like he preaches.That is fact.
Now,as far as him being 99% right,I think you are confusing fact with opinion.You simply agree with 99% of what he says.Nobody,not even Rush is 99% right.Thank you for making my point for me.
Good luck with that Masters....I hope spelling is not involved.(Reagan,not Reagon)

Forerdm,
Guess what, the last 8 years has not been conservative government, and Rush pointed that out. Rush wasn't Bush's biggest fan and he will openly admit that. Bush has spent us into a huge deficit (took him 8 yrs, took Obama 44 days to double it), not many people were ecstatic about Bush, he started out ok, but ended up more of a moderate republican like McCain (and with the bailout at the end more like Obama; liberal). Considering the alternatives however, Bush was the lesser evil. As far as how Rush lives, do you have personal experience with this? How the hell do you know how he lives? He is successful, that's what he preaches, he is fiscally conservative, that's what he preaches, so come again? The 99% comment was not the meat of that point, it wasn't meant to be taken literally. I wasn't saying that he is absolutely correct 99% of the time, although i do agree with his arguments the majority of the time. I was saying that Obama has singled him out because he is a threat, just like his administration is targeting citizens like Rick Santelli, and Jim Cramer. In other words, Obama's administration is creating an enemies list out of people who disagree with Obama (look at Joe the Plumber), even if they are on liberal networks, and are known liberals (Jim Cramer). That was my point, I'm sorry that you do not have the cognitive ability to dissect that comment and derive the underlying meaning to what I was saying. How the hell did i make your point for you??? You can't just say that without actually explaining it. And guess what, you did state that conservatism was wrong, your quote: "any point of view that is way to the right OR left have one thing in common...they are always wrong.". Maybe i spelt Reagan wrong, but at least i know what i say when i say it (should i point out that you forgot to put spaces after a lot of your punctuation marks, thats seems to be grammatically incorrect, and something that is hypocritical when remarking on someone else's grammar). You are saying through that quote that liberalism (left) and conservative (right) viewpoints are always wrong. In other words you are a moderate. But i stated that conservative policy has always worked. I'm not going to get into social issues, because that is a grayer area, I am simply talking about conservative FISCAL policy. This was not practiced through the last 8 Bush year, hence the last 8 years of Bush policies has not been 8 years of conservative policy. Do i have to spell that out for you or do you understand what I am saying? If not i can clarify further. I believe i repeated at least three separate times in my original comment that I was talking about economics, fiscal policy (masters in finance and accounting not grammar). I referred to a balanced budget, did Bush have a balanced budget? So why would the last 8 years have been anything close to fiscally conservative?? Please do a little bit of research before you put together a thought, it shouldn't be this easy for me to tear apart each little point you made.