Buffalo Bills "lock" for Super Bowl in 2008

With such a potent futurist on my rolodex why aren't my stocks doing better? As interesting as the points raised by The Unknown Blogger are, they are hardly conclusive. It is accurate to say that there are differences in the GOP, and the ones sighted are even true. But a fight? Whose picking it? There have been precious few groin gouges or ear bitings in the past four years, why would someone assume there will be far more in the next four? The "values voters" have been gaining in number for a decade now as a reactionary force against a growing antagonistic cultural power base. This power base includes such institutions as universities, Hollywood, the news media and newsmaking judges. These groups are all aligned with the liberal side of American politics. The RCs (as Unknown called them) are these values voters who are reacting to what they perceive as a liberal tyranny imposing its ideas on all of us (limiting prayer and religious expression, redefining marriage, pushing sex ed curricula that is not sensitive to local views). That is why they are not alienating many GCs. Few conservatives see them as another form of tyranny, but instead a movement drawing a line in the sand and saying to the liberal tyranny, "you shall go no further". The Unknown Blogger's point is similar to the one made by those who will equate America and Al Qaeda: both have killed innocents, so both are bad. Knowing the Unknown Blogger as I do (and loving him dearly), I assure you he is much too rational to make that argument, but what that argument shows is the mistake of only considering actions, and not motives. The majority of conservatives do not perceive a new tyranny gathering, but a reactionary defense against an old one. They support the motives. This makes it easier for "small government" folk to accept this strengthening of government that Unknown very correctly identified. The thinking is "fight fire with fire". Therefore, I can't see this becoming a large enough rift to weaken the GOP in any significant way. But I do stand by my football prediction...Go Bills!