Time for some good ol' GOP bashing:

[mburbank]

As you know, I am neither conservative nor a fan of the Cato institute.

BUT this raise a larger issue which concerns me a great deal. Opinions please. Why are so many potential voters willing to chuck supposed core political values in the MOST Orwellian fasion as long as it benefits their team? Some of the people most involved in todays irresponsible spending practices used to be HUGE deficit hawks. It's not the switch that bothers me, it's the refusal to defend or even acknowledge a change in position. On a nationwide scale, I have personally grown more fiscally conservative over the last twenty years. But I'm aware of it, I admit it and can give several reasons. Why is the conservative base, who's party spends as if there are no future generations coming, not more widely criticized within there own party about what seems to be a complete fiscal reversal? Why isn't there a Republican out there willing to run for the nomination, not in hopes of winning, but in hopes of forcing the issue into the debate on their own side?

Does anyone think Sharpton, or Kucinich actually think they might get the nomination? No, their in it so the issues they are most passionate about will figure into the debate, at least a little.