Twice As Many Conservatives

I just read on the RCP blog about a Gallup study that shows about twice as many Americans identify themselves as "conservative" compared to those who identify themselves as "liberal".

Gallup reports that 40 percent of interviewees this year said they were conservative, 35 percent moderate and 21 percent liberal. The number of conservatives hasn't shifted much in the last two decades -- from 1996 through 2004, between 39 and 40 percent described themselves as conservative -- though that number had dropped to 37 percent over the last three years.

See the Gallup study here titled "Conservatives Are Single-Largest Ideological Group".

I'm not saying people should run with the crowd. I'm saying the media keeps telling us that those who don't want the government to run their lives are part of a shrinking, old-fashioned minority is sheer nonsense.

And I find it crazy that the liberals -who represent 21% of the political views in this nation- are the ones running two branches of the government!

With that, I say it is time for the GOP to nominate a conservative for president.