Last spring I thought I’d enjoy seeing Senator Clinton getting the “republican treatment” from the media/left.
I didn’t. There has been a vicious undertone to this whole thing that’s really bothered me. While I certainly don’t support her, she has my respect for many reasons.

I see glimmers of hope that conservatives may take the Republican Party back from our usurpers. Will real Democrats get the same chance with their party? I hope so…for the good of our nation.

The ‘kool-aid’ that some of my former fellow PUMA’s drank is the same flavor as the kool-aid that smeared Al Gore in 2000. He may have run a somewhat wanting campaign, but look how the choice of Bush vs. Gore looks in hindsight. Wake up, Hillary supporters!! How could you support Hillary Clinton and then, out of pure spite, support a ticket that stands for something completely opposite?

It worries me greatly, but I fear now that the events of the primary will cause this concern to be ignored by many reading this because they will assume that I am an Obot operative. Please calm down and step back and think…

http://www.partizane.com (New Hampster’s home)

You have no idea how right you are. While the klan started in Pulaski, TN after the Civil War, its powerbase is now (and has been for years) in the North/Midwest. As far as anti-semitism goes, I’ve never heard it expressed by a born-and-bred Southerner, only from transplanted Northerners. As a matter of fact, Southern Jews have a rich and proud history in the South. Google Judah P. Benjamin sometime.

You may find this link interesting:
http://www.breitbart.com:80/article.php?id=D932NC6O1&show_article=1

Chipper
S.E. Tennessee

Have you guys thought about posting those video’s regarding Caucus fraud to Republican web sites? They will get greater circulation by doing so and be used by Republicans to go after Obama supporters. This will put wavering Obama Democrats in the position of having to come up with a counter argument. They will then at least watch them!

As it stands now, it can just be dismissed as old news.

Here’s the thing, though: who doesn’t want that?

No Republican I know is for war without end, for tormenting those different than us, or for punishing the poor. Our goals, I think, are the same. We just differ on the ways to get there, or on the plausibility of attaining them in a certain way.

Take, for example, health care. No republican I know (certainly not me) is against the idea of getting medical care into the hands of everyone. We read the stories of people dying for lack of care and ache for them the same as any progressive person. Most of us, I can safely say, just don’t believe the government is able to do it. We believe that handing them them power to make decisions like this would result in worse care for just about everyone at the cost of basic care for a relative few. We think, without doubt, that the government would quickly begin to ration out healthcare to the detriment of all. Best, then, to think of another way. Note that sentence: think of another way, not abandon the idea altogether. Somehow it’s become Socialized Medicine versus Evil, not Socialized Healthcare versus another idea to be considered.

I completely agree with the author: I think that a bunch of caring, concerned people have been sold a bill of goods by a small handful of opportunists and hucksters. They have been told that the only way to a better tomorrow is to listen to them without fail. They’ve been told that the Other Side is Bad. They’ve been given an innoculation against legitimate discourse with any but their own kind. When this ruling class’ tenets are called into question, they resort to ad hominem attacks and playing the X-card. They want power, and they promise endless Happy Tomorrows if only you’ll give it to them.

Does this happen on the right? Sometimes. But consider as the author does: abortion rights, gay rights, etc., while not universally supported, nevertheless have a home in the Republican party. Rudy Giuliani can run on his merits as a leader rather than his feelings on abortion, a matter he’d be unable to change anyway. Could a pro-life Democrat do that? Could a Democrat who questioned the possibility that a gay person has made a choice in their lifestyle ever hope to see the national stage? As one author put it: Republicans are Republicans anywhere you go. Democrats at the national level are an animal unto themselves, very different from most state and local Democrats.