I have found out what “compassionate conservatism” is: a code word for liberalism.

We conservatives are not happy with the way things have gone either, but I suspect for different reasons.

I’d like to know where the government is getting money for the bailout, and what’s going to happen when it is all gone and banks are still failing.

Anyone would think the candidates would be talking about such things, but they’re not.

Sen. McCain had a perfect chance to show what he was made of by voting against the bailout, but he caved in. And if he and the GOP would just leave Sarah Palin alone, let her be herself, they would have done way better.

But I’m equally bitter about the wimpy Republicans in Congress that were supposed to be conservative, but were anything but. They have nobody to blame but themselves … spending taxpayers’ money and growing the size and scope of government instead of the opposite.

Members of Congress are not doing what’s right. They are there for themselves and the money and benefits involved.

I could go on and on cutting down both sides.

I find it odd, and wonder if other people do, too, that there is no shortage of people like myself, cutting up the Republicans, but I never hear a Democrat cutting down one of their own. Do they really think they are that superior?

Do they really think they will do a better job?

Paul Lowell, Rumford