Conservatives are dying out.

"Did you know that our country has never elected ,not once, a Liberal President?" HA! So you can never say that Bill Clinton is a liberal? Okay. Anyway, moving back to the real argument... First off, I am not happy about people dying out because of their political views. I am simply happy more people are becoming enlightened. People don't die because of their political views in America, at least not like they once did such as liberals like Dr. King, John and Robert Kennedy, etc. I am simply arguing that the percentage of people that are politically aware that are conservatives now is lower than the amount it used to be, and it is steadily declining. Powerful conservatives such as evangelical leaders and radio talking heads are not so powerful anymore. Conservatism itself is being redefined. Back in the sixties, you would've been considered a liberal if you wanted to get rid of the Jim Crow laws. Of course now it would be idiotic from either side of the spectrum to suggest we go back to those barbaric days. Ideas such as tolerance and open-mindedness are liberal values, not conservative. Thinking outside the box and considering new ideas is what being liberal is all about. There are less and less people who feel the opposite now. People are realizing that bigotry is a problem--in all it's fashions whether it be racism, homophobia, or sexism. It has taken liberals pushing the envelopes and challenging the establishment time and time again to get this country where it is now in regard to such issues. I always find it funny that conservatives claim to be the ones defending civil liberties and keeping government small, but how they actually act in defiance of those principles on a regular basis. Extending government powers through unwarranted surveillance programs and ignoring the trampling of the U.S. Constitution by George W. Bush and his cronies by denying prisoners of war the simple right to an attorney AND forcing them to submission through torture is hardly small government. One of the popular campaign tactics used by conservatives in the past has been to say that Democrats would raise taxes, and this year the answer is yes, if you make more than $75,000 a year you will pay slightly more taxes but for those who actually NEED a tax break, the simple, rural, flag-waving, hard working, patriot Americans making less than that amount, they would get a major tax BREAK from either Clinton or Obama. I also want to discuss the "mainstream media." I will admit that NBC has Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from the left, but has Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough, and Tucker Carlson from the right. CNN reports everything pretty much without opinion, with the exception of Lou Dobbs, a hardcore opponnent of immigration and well-known racist towards Hispanics. FOX NEWS, the network I am betting is your favorite, is the most clearly leaning network of them all. They falsify reports, such as in the case of the reports of Barack Obama being a Muslim and not crossing his heart for the national anthem, and Bill O'Reilly gets to run his mouth about how they're aren't nearly 200,000 homeless vets (a proven statistic) and how the Bush administration has been looking after vets so well. The media is what it is, and if you think they are liberal it's usually because they are simply reporting objectively and telling it "how it is." Besides, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter have mouths big enough to eat their competition. My argument simply is that conservatives are fading, not so much who is right and who is wrong, or why they are fading. Do you agree (for whatever reasons) that the conservative "voice" is fading?