at this point in time, ross, the only beef in "conservatism" is in it's street muscle and the lobbyist cash that lies behind. there is no beef to be found in their ideas. only oil, and insurance, and big pharma, and goldman and sachs, and the b of a, and the sad, woeful army of dupes and suckers willing to dance their spastic little puppet dance. only in the fat-laced beef rotting inside the suit of a lawyer defending the right of connected power to rape with impunity. here, watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Y6kiZIlMFto&feature=player_embedded

so, conservatives have a "beef" with the telling of the tillman tale. the fact that their beef is with the telling and not the tale itself says just about everything one may need to know about the argument. the mealy-mouthed positioning of so-called "independents" aside.

and yeah, i'm saddened and disgusted by the obama administration's willingness to go along with the whole suicidal charade, and i don't know what to tell my son about it all, other than I'm Sorry.