PostScript...
To those of you that have been watching this tennis match, what you have witnessed is the incremental trend of even 'reasonable' conservatives to resort to the more shrill and conspiratorial bases for their thinking when presented with logical and 'reasonable' alternatives to their issues. It's unfortunate, but that's the way they think and what they want, which was the original intent of the thread to display. They become 'unreasonable' when any progressive idea or 'Obama-created' theory is brought up. It's just a "what's so". Not all conservatives, but too many for my blood. As a 'middle of the road' observer of the political scene, the comment of Jim Hightower (former Texas Ag commissioner) applies: "The only thing in the middle of the road are yellow lines and dead armadillos." I have given up in the face of bluster and 'unreason'. Thass' all, folks!

PostScript...
To those of you that have been watching this tennis match, what you have witnessed is the incremental trend of even 'reasonable' conservatives to resort to the more shrill and conspiratorial bases for their thinking when presented with logical and 'reasonable' alternatives to their issues. It's unfortunate, but that's the way they think and what they want, which was the original intent of the thread to display. They become 'unreasonable' when any progressive idea or 'Obama-created' theory is brought up. It's just a "what's so". Not all conservatives, but too many for my blood. As a 'middle of the road' observer of the political scene, the comment of Jim Hightower (former Texas Ag commissioner) applies: "The only thing in the middle of the road are yellow lines and dead armadillos." I have given up in the face of bluster and 'unreason'. Thass' all, folks!

I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of our current president. I wasn't particularly enthused by the loser in the last election, either.
I've tried to wrap my head around what either party wants to do in terms of the direction that we're headed. I don't have a clue about actual programs, but I do have a theory about where the Conservatives want to take the country.
If you strip away all the rhetoric and theatrics, and nail them down to absolute basics, here is what I think you find.
They want to make the country into a mono-racial, mono-cultural, mono-theistic, male-dominated nation. Mono-racial means whites only. Mono-cultural means European-descended social norms. Mono-theistic means protestant Christian majority and theology, with these values descending into the law of the land. Male-dominated reverts back to the old days of a paternalistic government, based on the male of the household being the ruler of the roost and sole breadwinner.
Lots of these values are based on Biblical standards.
In this utopia, they would oust all minorities including Jews, Muslims, Asians and blacks. Gays and lesbians would be forced back into the closet behind last year's shoe styles. Women's rights would be curtailed.
I may be wrong, but it sure looks like this from an objective viewpoint.

If you're conservative and if you strip away all the overlay, is this what you truly believe?
I'm sure that many of you will try to argue the cosmetics of this ideology, but can you really and truly argue that these basics aren't what you would feel most comfortable with?

On the other hand, the true liberals would give away the store and their policies would ultimately lead to socialism and all the attendant ills that accompany that thinking. Things like a guaranteed minimum income for everyone, a liberal immigration policy, a politically correct culture for all, and a few other items that I wouldn't agree with. In its own way it's just as offensive as the conservative construct.

There has to be a common ground that we all can agree on, but unless we can start to agree on something and put aside the sniping and name-calling and talk about issues instead of stereotypes, we'll continue to be a divided country that will eventually fracture.