By:  John Schwartz

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Then there is that continuing cowardice in Republicans. Perry, Schwarzenegger and Californian campaigners don't support Governor Brewer because they are all scared of the Hispanic "voters". That's nauseating cowardice. Of course, as a conservative, you should support Brewer. Of course, you must secure the border first. Of course Arizona must do this, if the Federal Government does not. It's David against Goliath. Of course Brewer must win! I also was most dismayed by the Bush administration's lack of securing the border. How long did it take before some measures were taken! And then its destabilizing fiscal policy.

And why no presidential vetoes on the congress proposals re no changes for the corrupt May sisters. All this led to the financial debacle. Sure, the democratic majority advanced it during Bush and now claims that it was "his administration" that is the culprit. We don't hear the argument enough that it was the Democrats in Congress who caused it, not the Republicans. But President Bush could have opened his mouth more and vetoed what were obvious disastrous moves.

I don't find Carl Rove credible on this either. No one on the Republican or conservative side explains the seven year business cycle which is a normal feature of a capitalist system and well explained in the most basic economic textbooks that politicians don't read. It was unfortunate for the Bush Administration that they started when Bill Clinton's "bubble" burst, then had 9/11 and Katrina, and then had to face the consequences of a decade long of an unsustainable low interest rate policy supported by the democrats! that fueled the housing boom and bust and ended up in financial malaise.

And that's why the business cycle came down with a big bang at the end of his Administration! No one is smashing this in the face of Mr. Obama in a well articulated speech, every time when he maintains at nausea that he suffers from all the wrong of the Bush administration. Of course, socialists are against this business cycle and try to "equalize" or "eliminate" it with socialist policies that run against the unwritten economic laws. They tried and failed in Europe. Of course, Mr. Obama does not want to"return to the policies of the Buse era" because however weak they were financially, there weren't socialist. But while utopia sounds good, it cannot escape these unwritten economic laws (The Soviet system collapsed, the Chinese had to conform, some European countries had to as well...).

Instead, his administration writes laws (that his congress does not read either) that will be refuted by these unwritten economic laws as they will take the USA to the brink of economic collapse. I wish we had conservative politicians able to put that squarely and eloquently on the table.

Milton Friedman could, but there is no one now. Your main problem is that there is no Reagan to fulfill the Conservative objectives, despite all the nostalgia. Independents and Tea Party supporters may help assure gridlock after the November elections to stop the avalanche of socialist rule - and being from Europe I know what that means: more debt and sulkiness of the populace - but what in 2012? There's a great chance that the Pied Piper may win again, just because there is no equivalent performer on the conservative side.

Talk radio and speeches are all very nice, but it's noise. Leaders are born not made. If you don't have a credible leader, conservatives won't go anywhere. I do hope you find one.