Diaries and positions like this are the reason I don’t come around here that often and, indeed, I am generally coming to the point where I simply do not like conservatives. Not RINOs or CINOs, not “Congress critters” but conservatives.

The fact is (okay, admittedly, only most) conservatives no longer stand for anything.

Most conservatives make up excuses just as badly as most liberals. Most conservatives are just as blinded by their emotions and unwilling to look at facts, are just as bigoted and narrow-minded, as most liberals are. Most conservatives are just as ignorant of history as they claim most liberals are. Most conservatives want to destroy America just as much as most liberals: it’s just that conservatives want their so-called candidates to do it.

Truth be known, after listening to birthers, and people like supporters of Christine O’Donnell, and yes, even some Tea Partiers, I am beginning to think that many conservatives are literally just as crazy as the Moveon.org crowd and many other liberals.

Case in point: now many of us are trying to convince ourselves that Mitt Romney is (at least a social) conservative. This from the man who once pledged that he would be a bigger supporter of gay rights than Ted Kennedy. And note, unlike his explanation for flip-flopping on abortion, I’ve never heard him explain this one.

And let’s also not forget that in campaigning against McCain, Romney was conducting push-polls in Florida “asking” if elderly GOP primary voters would still vote for McCain if they knew McCain opposed Bush’s Medicare Part D. Quite frankly, that was probably John McCain’s finest and most conservative moment outside of Vietnam and Romney was running against it.

And let’s not forget that in Michigan, Mitt Romney was promoting several billion dollars of tax-payer funds in support of the auto industry. Even McCain was opposed to that. Let’s face it, as someone else on this board once said, Mitt Romney was for auto bailouts before auto bailouts were cool.

As much as I hated John McCain, I must confess that despite the rhetoric, McCain was probably more conservative than Mitt Romney. Yet Mitt Romney was being touted by some (and is still being touted by a few) as the conservative alternative to John McCain.

Wow! Just WOW!!!

And unless I am accused of hating Mitt Romney, let’s take a look at a few other popular Presidential candidates.

Take Mike Huckabee. From his tax increases, increases to the size of government, felon pardoning, and “Club of Greed” comments, even most of the people on this board will admit that Huckabee is nothing mrore than a pro-life liberal. But when you consider that he also supported the erstwhile GOP candidate in NY-23 a few years ago — Diane Scouvava [I don't remember her name but I am ceratin everyone here remembers who I am referencing] — a candidate who literally was to the Left of Barack Obama on the subject of abortion, then I must question his pro-life credentials.

Furthermore, most people want to forget that it was not John McCain who commented about illegal aliens being “G-d’s children” (or at least, McCain did not say it forst), it was Mike Huckabee. Look it up. Indeed, look at Huckabee’s record on illegal immigration, which include things like support for taxpayer-funded grants and scholarships for illegal aliens in Arkansas public universities. Yet now, most conservatives, even among those who oppose him, want to believe that Huckabee would send Chuck Norris to the border to personally kick the arse of every illegal trying to cross.

Plus, I personally think Mike Huckabee is both stupid and a liar. He could not explain his “Fair Tax” idea and lied about talking to the originators of it. Furthermore, I utterly despise his comments and insinuations about Mitt Romney, publicly making comments like, “Don’t Mormons believe that Christ and Satan are brothers.”

As much as I despise Mitt Romney, and as much as I may disagree with the theology of the Mormon religion, those comments were just beyond the pale.

I honestly will vote for Barack Obama before I’d vote for Mike Huckabee.

And let’s not leave out Sarah Palin, a woman who is and was less, yes less experience and qualifications than Barack Obama. And what were her meager accomplishments before she quit: a 31% increase in the size of state government, a “windfall profits” oil tax increase, paying billions to a Canadian company for work that will probably never get done, and, of course, “ethics” legislation that was so convoluted that even she couldn’t navigate through it. The very definition of being hoisted by one’s own petards. Sorry folks but when you take off your tinted glasses, Sarah Palin does not come of as either very smart or very conservative.

Indeed, I am both amused and dumbfounded when people try to claim that having a child with Down’s Syndrome makes Palin conservative. Really? I know a fairly liberal couple in New Hampshire (at least they are registered Democrats and still tend to vote that way) who have a daughter with Down’s Syndrome. Does that mean they count as conservatives.

The bottom line for me is this: until we conservatives face reality and stop trying to convince ourselves that “our guys and gals” are better than “their’s,” we are just as guilty for destroying this country as the Barack Obamas, Nancy Pelosis, and Harry Reids. Indeed, we are more guilty because we say we know better.

Rhetoric means sh*t. Records and actual accomplishments are what counts. And when you actually look at the records and accomplishments of most so-called conservatives, they aren’t much (if any) better than that of the liberals. The tragedy is that the conservative rank and file wants to complain about it but truth be known, they don’t want to change it.