Good posts, katzenjammer and Rap! I agree with both of you. And Rap, I'm with you. I am a voter. Period! We voters don't have the luxury of calling the shots, and don't even have a voice. That is not what the FF intended. Our representatives sit in back rooms, discussing how they are going to win elections, and how far they can go with their constituents. They love their power, and how they can fool the people. So they sit and plot and create a false image of themselves. All we can do is write our displeasure, demonstrate, form groups, and vote. And, in so doing, we become the enemy of our own parties. And, as they sit back in their recliners, the media comes to their rescue, fabricating a persona about true conservatives. The GOPe relish that the democrats, media, and republicans conspired in a sense to invalidate the true patriots.