[TheRealThing]

Like PTF said, there's many more young Republicans than people think. Especially in the South. I think a big reason why is younger republicans are looked over because they tend not to let everyone know what they believe like younger liberal's do.

I'd like to think he is right. It wouldn't be good for the country to go too far to the left, or to the right. To me the best scenario is when the two ideologies have their say in the halls of congress and, as a result, governance tends to fall somewhere in the middle.

Conservative principles are what America leaned on in the times of her greatest trouble, as well as some of her grandest economic booms. During the dark days of WWII, you can bet the pews were full in churches across this land, as folks looked to their Creator for deliverance from the evil of the axis powers. And, the great economic awakening of the Reagan era, fueled America's surge into world superpower dominance. We therefore need clear minded conservatives to keep us true to our core values.

The presence of serious threat to our country, foreign and domestic, is what tends to cause us as a people to relearn the lessons of freedom and liberty. The denial from the left that threats exist makes me wonder if they are capable of recognizing reality at any time of history. When we fought our desperate struggle against Hitler and Emperor Hirohito, liberals cried continually for us to make unrealistic concessions to try to buy them off. Decrying our decision to make war with them as the end of us all. Actually the reverse of which would have been true. Liberals haven't changed much since that time, as was in evidence when our State Department chose to become vulnerable in the face of threat in Libya, when we tried to prove to them our desire to be friends. Like Hitler, they see such concessions as being weak. Kissing up to one's enemies or buying them off, (appeasement) has never worked and will never replace a willing and superior fighting force as a deterrent.