Except for 8 years, between 1980 and today, there has been a republican in the white house. If the republicans are so "family values", how come the "continued degredation". Thats what I'm getting at. Family values is just a catch phrase used to sucker people into voting for one canidate or another. All of us agree that family is important. Like I said above, family values starts at home, with the family. The last thing you need is government legislating what YOUR family values will be.

btw, seems to me that Romney was pretty liberal when he was governor of MA. Why the sudden change? Why do you feel that he is a true conservative?

Andrew