GOP Presidential Hopeful Loses My Support...

...and respect. While vilified by the media back in the day, Newt Gingrich was still my front-running pick for 2008. Note the use of the past tense.

Gingrich believes that we need to revise our free speech rights in order to fight terrorism. Somebody smack him in the mouth! Limiting our free speech makes us look more like the people we are fighting. This is patently ridiculous, and I would vote for a democrat before Gingrich on this very principle.

I encourage all Americans, conservative and liberal alike, to condemn this idea.

An Inconvenient Opinion

I am truly hoping that the DNC ticket in 2008 will be John Kerry and Al Gore. These two clowns really do accurately represent the left: one is always wrong about war and the other is always wrong about the environment.

Gore’s “documentary” claims unequivocally that because of global warming, it is all but certain that future hurricanes will be more violent and destructive than those in the past. The scientific predictions for this hurricane season were cataclismic – and according to Gore, was all because of global warming (a theory that has very little scientific data to support it and, at very least, just as much to discredit it, but don’t execute me for saying so).

Now that we are almost at the end of hurricane season, we find Al Gore trying to explain how we had the most tranquil hurricane season in a decade. There were a total of 9 storms all season, none of which were category 4 or 5. How do scientists explain this? Storms were starved for fuel after ingesting masses of dry Saharan dust and air over the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists say the storm-snuffing dust was more abundant than usual this year.

Wait a minute! How is that related to global warming? Could it be that global warming has nothing to do with it at all? I’m sure Gore find some lame way to further his envirowacko theories which have been pretty much 100% wrong, so stand by for a real interesting explanation.

The good news: if Gore keeps making speeches and movies warning us of how bad it will be, we might be safe for years to come. What a weenie.

Headline...Hello?

Black Friday Sales Up 6 Percent Over '05.

In other news...disaster in Iraq. Will any news organization finally acknowledge that the economy is doing good? Can anyone out there hear me? Hello?

Giving Thanks

Amidst the rants and other refinements on this site, I wanted to take a brief moment and give thanks for everything that I have. Today was probably the best Thanksgiving I have ever experienced. I am truly thankful for my family and friends. To have people that love you is to be someone who can easily love.

Racial Hysteria

A white author has caused major controversy with his novel. There is uproar due to his extensive use of the N-word (215 times). This book has been banned by the Concord, Massachusetts library, the Brooklyn Public Library, and public schools all across the country. Beyond the extensive racial epithets, this novel has been banned due to its “tawdry subject matter” and “the course, ignorant language in which it was narrated”.

If you didn’t guess it, the author is Mark Twain and the novel is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Concord library banned the book immediately after publication in 1884. Regarding the public schools, it was the fifth most frequently challenged (in the sense of attempting to ban) book in the United States during the 1990s.

Why is it that this book, commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels, with an overwhelmingly anti-racist theme, still gets so much heat 122 years after publication? A single word. Albeit an offensive word, it is just a word. One that is acceptable to use if you aren’t white, I might add.

Why do I write about this at all? Of course, the Michael Richards tirade that has caused so much fervor and media coverage. Was he offensive? Yes, but no more so than a comedian like Chris Rock. Let’s try and put some perspective to this: Michael Richards is a comedian. He’s not a role model, world leader, elected official or educator (don’t get me started on how offensive some of our publicly paid educators have been in recent years). Yet, because he’s white and used the N-word on stage, it gets national press. He appeared on David Letterman last night to apologize (a better apology than delivered by John Kerry and Charlie Rangel). That show, according to Nielsen, easily beat Jay Leno in ratings.

In writing this, I’ve already given it more print than it deserves. However, my intent is why I bring this to my page. I get the impression that politicians and media continually attempt to keep racial hysteria alive. It makes for good ratings and it keeps politicians concentrated on demographics versus issues. Why run a campaign on your abilities (or lack thereof) when you can convince one racial group that either you are with them or that your opponent is against them? We as a society need to get past this one word. There is so much more going on in the world to be concentrating so much on so little.

Elections Over, Slow News

I’m so freaking bored! Reading the news recently has become about as exciting as reading Saint Thomas Aquinas (note to readers: insomnia? Aquinas is your cure).

The news outlets are dredging up all the same old crap:

Bush Travels Somewhere, Met By Protesters
Yawn, yet another something moonbat liberals have in common with Muslim terrorists.

Charlie Rangel Wants To Reinstate The Draft
What a grandstanding jerk. He pulled this same stunt in 2004, voting against the bill he drafted.

A Bunch Of People Get Sick On A Cruise Ship
Hello people: floating Petrie Dish!

Running Count On People Killed In Iraq
News Director: “What, no Americans killed? OK, go with the Iraqis number then. How many killed in Africa? Bah, we can’t bang on Bush for that! Just go with the Iraqi numbers and mention Bush in the story”.

John Kerry Says Something Stupid
Seriously! Every single day!

Someone Claims Victory Impossible In Iraq
The most recent example thanks to Henry Kissinger. Well, if there’s an expert on how to lose a war...

Anti-War Activists Do Something Stupid
Our most recent example: the “Global Orgasm For Peace”. No surprise that this comes out of San Francisco...

OJ Simpson
Help me, please! I’m so sick of this guy!

Tom Cruise
OK, let’s go back to the OJ story...

By the way, stories like Economy Booming still not making headlines. Well, I guess I better get back to watching paint dry.

More Rights Stolen

This one has me stewing big-time. In the wake of being upset that I won’t be able to smoke in my regular bar come this January, I am outraged by this story. A Home Owner’s Association in Golden, Colorado amended their bylaws to prohibit smoking in all their town houses.

So, a married couple buys a town house. Then, the HOA amends their bylaws to tell this couple what they can and cannot do in their own home. This is completely unreasonable. This couple did what any reasonable person would do: they filed a lawsuit. Certainly the law will protect their rights. Apparently, not if Jefferson County District Judge Lily Oeffler hears the case. This bonehead of a judge ruled that smoking “constitutes a nuisance”, so people can be banned from doing so in the home that they own.

This is quite the Slippery Slope if you ask me. Of course, the couple could appeal Judge Bonehead’s ruling, but this would require an expenditure of funds that they don’t have. One can only hope that a lawyer out there sees this situation for what it is and takes this case on pro bono. If we allow our government to openly infringe upon our individual rights like this, I can only imagine what they will tell us we can’t do tomorrow.

Seriously Un-American

The place: Pahrump, Nevada. The issue: flying flags.

This town of 40,000, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas has just passed a law making it illegal to fly any foreign flag above the United States flag or by itself. This is an apparent response to Hispanic protesters carrying Mexican flags earlier this year in a press for rights for illegal immigrants.

First, I’m just sick and tired of this debate. Illegal immigrants are just that: illegal. How can we afford rights to people who aren’t here legally? There is a process to become a United States citizen and these people have completely circumvented it. How is it that we can even consider this issue? It just drives me crazy!

With that said, passing a law prohibiting people from flying any flag they choose is seriously un-American. Forget that it is unconstitutional; it goes against everything we stand for. Instead of passing laws prohibiting flags being flown, perhaps we should concentrate on enforcing our laws of immigration? Just a thought...

Public Schools Yet Again

If there is any entity in America that is more corrupt than Washington politicians (both sides of the isle, contrary to liberal beliefs today and being confirmed by liberal targets), it is the public education system. To preempt an agreeable assertion from English Professor, I am not writing to impugn the educators themselves. Rather, it is the administration (which I believe to be fully supported by liberals) that needs to be put in check. For the time-being, I think our attention should be squarely put there.

On this site, this issue has been discussed several times before and I think everyone in the country has some sort of story about how the school system is milking their tax dollars with no interest in the actual education of students. Case-in-point, Teterboro, New Jersey. As highlighted in this article, this small New Jersey borough has three school board members with a budget of $261,887, but no schools. Yes, that’s correct: no schools. The borough’s 10 students are sent to other districts. Yet, these administrators receive an average salary of more than $87,000 per year (I don’t know if they split it evenly or not) to do nothing more than collect that money. Property tax money.

This is not an isolated situation. New Jersey has a sum total of 23 “non-operating” districts (districts without schools). These 23 districts contain a total of 2,172 students and cost over $800,000 per year in administrative costs. Then, people wonder why the property taxes in New Jersey are spiraling out of control! One of Teterboro’s three administrators, James E. Hall (also the borough’s tax assessor and secretary of the Board of Health) was actually quoted: “I was going to go back to school to help boost the population.” Hall, 88 years of age, is apparently not satisfied with the money he gets for his non-operating school district and admitted to wanting to go back to school for more money! It’s patently ridiculous and deserves more print than it is getting.

And The Oscar Goes To...

Devin Hester of the Chicago Bears. If you missed this game, you missed one of the most beautiful acting jobs that I have ever seen on the football field. I suggest watching football highlights this week if you missed it because this footage will be remembered for a long, long time.

***UPDATE: click here to see it.

By the way, I’d like to ask any New York readers if the Bears were who you thought they were...

I’ve been in a sales job of one form or another for most of my life. It is because of this that I have to look at the game tonight and wonder if the Chicago Bears pulled the old “Bait-And-Switch” on the New York Giants. They kept the first half close in points but made tons of mistakes. They could have been winning big early, but everyone kept coughing the ball up, and it seemed that the Giants were on a mission to force a turnover on every play. The camera operators kept going back to a smiling Michael Strahan on the sidelines. Everyone (including me) bought it.

Then...destruction Chicago-Style.

I watched football all day today (9am to 10pm) and I sat and listened to all these commentators talk about how easy the Bears’ schedule has been and how they don’t have what it takes, and how they are going downhill, and how they should bench Rex Grossman, and blah blah blah blah blah. The one suggestion I send to Lovie Smith is that if tonight’s first half wasn’t The Bait-And-Switch, then you might want to think about using some Stick-Um for your player’s hands.

I was hoping for the side-by-side comparison of Michael Strahan’s expression from the first half as compared to the second. Priceless.

liberal Diplomacy

Here we go, folks. Back when Katrina hit, liberals ala Kanye West declared how horrible President Bush was and how much he hated black people. The liberal politicians echoed this sentiment with a slightly more PC tone. It was all over the news over and over and over. Here’s a nice little nugget that is in print today and most likely forgotten tomorrow.

Charlie Rangel (D-NY), who has said and done some other outrageously bonehead things in the past, had this to say about the state of Mississippi (which was notably hit by Katrina on August 29, 2005, destroying tens of thousands of homes and businesses and causing damage more than 150 miles inland.):

“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?”

Mississippi, one of the poorest states in our nation, has more than its fair share of blacks (nearly 1.1 million according to census numbers). Here we have a black Congressman from New York doing what liberal elitists do best: looking down their noses at the very people whose interests they claim to represent. Also notable is that Rangel is the ranking democrat on Ways and Means, and is in line to become chairman of the powerful tax-writing committee where he will divert even more Federal (i.e. your) money to New York.

Obviously, Rangel’s racist and uncaring statement rang sour to the ears of some politicians from the Great State of Mississippi. When asked to apologize for such a horrible thing to say, his spokesman responded with:

“I certainly don't mean to offend anyone, I just love New York so much that I can't understand why everyone wouldn't want to live here.”

First of all, that’s not what you said.
Second, that wasn’t an apology.
Third, why is it that your attempt-at-apology comes from lips other than yours?

I see several things in this situation that appear to me to be typical of liberal action and ideology:

• The liberal is an elitist who chastises one day what they are called to apologize for the next.


• The liberal refuses to apologize for anything they say and do. We’ve seen that here and we’ve seen it from another prominent liberal recently.


• The liberal, while effectively convincing minorities and the destitute that their best interests are served by them, proves again and again with their words and actions that they couldn’t give a damn about anyone unless it served their election ambitions.


• The liberal gets a free pass from the media.

OK, now before any liberal readers get their panties in a bunch, I’m not saying that all liberals are this way. Just the same, I don’t believe that all conservatives are without fault. However, I do see a constant trend of conservatives condemning their fringe element while liberals embrace them. As I have recently pointed out here and here, the media is complacent in liberal missteps, errors and failures and has a tendency to report without objectivity.

Damn it, I want to see a liberal call out Charlie Rangel on this and I want some serious media coverage of it. Much like I want to see Muslim leadership strongly condemn the actions of terrorists, I want to see democrats strongly condemn their own with the same ire that they condemn Republicans for anything (and sometimes nothing). I shudder to think of what liberals would say and how much media coverage there would be if ANY Republican said what Rangel did. It’s full-force hypocrisy and it really pisses me off. There – happy now? My weekend is ruined!

Just kidding – enjoy everyone!

A Glaring Difference

I’m not telling you anything you don’t know when I say that conservatives and liberals are quite different from one another. Republican Senator George Allen has just highlighted one of those major differences. I believe it merits mention because it illustrates what I interpret to be the intentions of both philosophies.

In an election with 2.37 million ballots cast, democrat Jim Webb had an extremely narrow lead of about 7,200 votes. Senator Allen decided against a recount and conceded defeat in a pivotal race of which the consequences were an evenly divided Senate versus a majority Senate.

I believe that if the situation were reversed and Allen carried the slim lead, we would have seen both a recount and a court battle. This would have been drawn out over weeks and possibly months. I think I stand on solid ground with this assumption based upon the actions of democrats in the past two Presidential elections. Also notable is that, without concession from Allen, Webb declared victory early on Wednesday and immediately assembled a transition team. This all occurred regardless of the fact that Allen had every right to a recount and the vote certification had already been moved out to the end of the month.

The difference: the conservative conceded defeat (and democrat control of the Senate) without a battle in the interest of moving forward and in the best interest of the people. The liberal would have battled it out every way to Sunday in the interest of gaining control of government and in the best interest of his party and of himself.

Well, that’s enough griping from me. The democrats won, the Republicans lost – big time. They won based on a purely partisan claim that they can make things better. They have two years in which to put their money where John Kerry’s foot firmly resides. My prediction: lots of grumbling about how they are dealing with an unfixable situation (contrary to their campaign promises).

The democrats won with a slew of promises that were long on rhetoric and short on detail. The Howard Dean Plan, from the mouth of Dean himself, was to not present any plan publicly until they were in power. Well, you got what you wanted. I’m very interested to hear your plans now. Does anyone else hear crickets chirping?

Here Come The democrats

I’m a little despondent this morning (obviously), so this will be short. According to exit polling, the same middle-class voters that put the GOP in control of the House a dozen years ago have fled to the democrats. All I have to say is that they are going to pay for what they have just done. They will pay through the nose in taxes. It’s my opinion, it’s my prediction.

Election Day Woes

As previously illustrated, the media has upped their election coverage five-fold with 77 percent pro-democrat and 88 percent anti-Republican stories.

In New Jersey, Republican Tom Kean Jr.'s campaign office was reportedly vandalized. A chain and padlock was placed on the front door and keys were broken off in the locks at the side entrances. His opponent, Bob Menendez (seeking “re-election” after being appointed by Jon Corzine) is currently under federal criminal investigation.

Also in New Jersey, voters in at least seven jurisdictions attempting to vote for Republican Kean and found their machines "locked" for Menendez, according to GOP Committee attorney Mark Sheridan, who called it a "disturbing and developing trend" emerging at the polls.

Graffiti that included a Communist-style hammer and sickle along with the name of Republican Curt Weldon, was spray-painted on an overpass and a department store outside Springfield, PA.

In Michigan, the website for Republican Mike Bouchard was shut down after being hacked.

In other news, Nancy Pelosi claims that if the democrats don’t win big, then Republicans cheated. Perhaps someone needs to tell her that denial isn’t a river in Egypt.

Banging The Drum

The media continues to bang their drum on Republicans and I continue to bang my drum on the media. The Big-Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) agenda: get democrats elected. This is not opinion. The Center for Media and Public Affairs conducted this study of The Big-Three between September 5 and October 22. The results are staggering.

Fact: of the 167 mid-term election stories from The Big-Three, 88 percent were negative stories about the Republicans.

Fact: of the 167 mid-term election stories from The Big-Three, 77 percent were positive stories about the democrats.

Fact: the Mark Foley story has garnered nearly as much coverage as the Iraq war and terrorism combined (59 on Foley, compared to 33 on Iraq and 31 on terrorism/national security).

Fact: no other story, including a record-high Dow, a steadily falling unemployment rate, the projected deficit cut in half, falling gas prices, or any other administration success has been covered more than 6 times.

Fact: with their bias firmly in place, the media has stepped up their effort by running five times as many mid-term stories than the 2002 mid-terms (167 in 2006 versus 35 in 2002).

Stop for a moment and consider what is happening. Seemingly at the behest of democrats, The Big-Three broadcast media outlets have stepped up their election coverage five-fold and stacked their stories and sound bites to the tune of 77 percent pro-democrat and 12 percent pro-Republican. There is an obvious agenda here and the media answers to nobody. Or do they?

They answer to you. Without viewers, advertisers will spend their dollars elsewhere. Send them the only message you can: change the channel.

Just So We’re Crystal Clear

The Miami Dolphins did NOT win the game today. The Chicago Bears LOST it. All of Miami’s points came off of Chicago mistakes. Chicago gave away a gimme and deserved to lose the game, just as they deserved to lose against Arizona (but didn’t).

Nonetheless, I would like to express my sincere and utter hatred for the Miami Dolphins. There have been two times in my life that the Chicago Bears had a real opportunity to join the Dolphins as an NFL team with an undefeated season, and both times the Dolphins have taken that record away. I’m sticking my tongue out at you with my middle finger fully extended. Although the game was a done deal, I still watched it until the clock hit zero.

Maybe in another two decades...

History Repeating Itself

Dear readers, please take time to read this lengthy but incredibly informative article by The Ten O’Clock Scholar. Highlights:

"The situation: a deeply unpopular Republican President, derided viciously in the press as an unsophisticated backcountry rube and an ape, during a divisively unpopular war considered an idiotic wasteful mistake and quagmire in which nothing but defeat was emerging; and the democrats, backed by disgruntled generals, running on a platform of 'cut and run' (with the approval of the major foreign powers), were poised to sweep into power in the midterm elections."

No, he isn’t talking about 2006. Rather, he refers to Abraham Lincoln in 1862 and adds his own quite amusing tagline: “democrats. Treasonous surrender-monkeys for 144 years.”

Some notable quotes from the press:

“As long as Lincoln is suffered to remain at the head of affairs, there is no real hope for America.”

“Our peculiar exercise of private judgment in choosing as our ruler not a statesman, not an orator, not even a gentleman, has already cost us half a million lives and a national debt, the largest ever created in so short a time, which we have not the remotest intention of ultimately repaying.”

Regarding the Gettysburg Address: “the language of Abraham Lincoln, President of the Minor portion of the Dis-United States of America, is commonly of so vulgar a nature as to be...totally unfit for publication.”

While democrats and the press banged endlessly on President Lincoln, he privately lamented: “it seems unreasonable that a series of successes, extending through half a year, and clearing more than a hundred thousand square miles of country, should help us so little, while a single half-defeat should hurt us so much.”

Wow – so much of this sounds so familiar. Not to mention that while Republicans publicly referred to the peace-toting democrats as disloyal “Copperheads”, the democrats were insisting that the war was not winnable and that armistice and peace negotiations should begin at once. The democrats also were hoping to capitalize on the falling morale of the people in the upcoming Congressional elections. Man, this is getting eerie, huh?

The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t help Lincoln’s standing with democrats or the press at all. They considered it to be a perversion of the war's original aim to preserve the Union. It was also regarded it as a double cross because Lincoln had previously promised not to interfere with the institution of slavery. The Ten O’Clock Scholar rightly scoffs: “Abe lied, people died”.

Take a moment. Consider the ramifications had the democrats with their rule-by-opinion-poll, do-anything-to-regain-power attitude had succeeded. Perhaps Northern America and Southern America? Perhaps a Western America as well? Ponder the ramifications further to consider what the Nazi and Communist scourges would have been able to do had the States not been United. Borsch anyone?

Again, I suggest taking time to read the article I linked at the top. There are many, many more parallels noted and it really does put today’s heated political standoff into perspective. And the democrats don’t even have Nixon to kick around anymore, yet somehow they still manage to do so.

Republicans Are Right Again

I recently wrote about the Republican advertisement that announces These Are The Stakes. In short, democrats are not equipped to handle the situation in the middle-east and their policy will mean disaster both there and here. As noted in the article, democrats are pretty upset about the ad. Probably because it’s true.

Disagree with me? Fine! That’s your right. However, there are many who do agree with me – including terrorist leaders.

According to this article on WorldNetDaily.com, the middle-east terrorist leaders are all but endorsing the democrats in this election. Notable quotes:

Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity: “of course Americans should vote democrat. This is why American Muslims will support the democrats, because there is an atmosphere in America that encourages those who want to withdraw from Iraq.” Jaara, living in Ireland where he was exiled as part of an internationally brokered deal to end the church siege, has taken responsibility for every suicide bombing inside Israel the past two years.

Muhammad Saadi, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank town of Jenin: “as Arabs and Muslims we feel proud of this talk (democrats on withdrawal from Iraq). Very proud from the great successes of the Iraqi resistance. This success that brought the big superpower of the world to discuss a possible withdrawal.”

Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades: “(withdrawal from Iraq) proves the strategy of the resistance is the right strategy.” He continued with “the (Iraqi) regime seem(s) to have no chance to survive if the Americans withdraw.”

Abu Ayman, an Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin, said he is "emboldened" by those who compare the war in Iraq to Vietnam.

Nancy Pelosi (House Speaker if the democrats win) made statements on 60 Minutes asserting withdrawal from Iraq would end the insurgency there. Islamic Jihad's Saadi, laughing, stated that "there is no chance that the resistance will stop." Jihad Jaara said an American withdrawal would "mark the beginning of the collapse of this tyrant empire (America). Therefore, a victory in Iraq would be a greater defeat for America than in Vietnam.” Abu Abdullah asserts that a withdrawal from Iraq would "convince those among the Palestinians who still have doubts in the efficiency of the resistance."

And, what I think should be on every democrat’s campaign poster: “I tell the American people vote for withdrawal.” That gem from Abu Abdullah.

These truly are the stakes.

I Told You So!

Does anyone remember a certain blogger asserting that John Kerry Really Is An Asshole? Well, as if to prove my point for me, Kerry is now drawing fervor from some in his own party. I’m not sure where democrats get their sense of appall on the subject, considering most of them have said more or less the same sort of thing. Oh yeah, it’s an election year and polls must have told them that the people didn’t like this one.

John Kerry to students at Pasadena City College: “you know, education: if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

(Click here if you want to see the video)

Again, democrats have no business faulting Kerry on this. This is a party that believes that if you disagree with them, then you are “stupid” and “hateful”. I imagine that these same democrats that are condemning Kerry now would not be doing so if their elections weren’t directly on the horizon.

Alas, I digress. Getting back to Kerry, I once again remind my fine readers that this Senator received nearly half the vote just two short years ago. This Senator ran his campaign on his military record! Face it: this is not so different than his comments made about our military in the Vietnam War. This Senator hates our armed forces. He has no admiration for them, no respect for them, and would sell them all out in a heartbeat if it meant winning power in the United States government.

This is a fabulous reminder of what voting for democrats will do to our current war effort as well as future diplomacy around the world. I think it’s funny that democrats are the ones pining on President Bush about diplomacy when Kerry can’t even be diplomatic to our own troops serving in battle right now. Way to go, asshole. As of yesterday, Kerry refuses to apologize despite calls for such from Republicans and democrats alike.

Bush’s response: “the Senator’s suggestion that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting and it is shameful. The members of the United States military are plenty smart and they are plenty brave and the Senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology. Whatever party you’re in, in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.”

Allow me to reiterate: Kerry refuses to apologize. This is as close as he came: “I said it was a botched joke. Of course, I'm sorry about a botched joke. You think I love botched jokes? I mean, it's pretty stupid.” I agree, Senator. Your statements are consistently stupid.

As a result of Senator Asshole’s statement, campaigning by Kerry for democrat hopefuls has been cancelled across the board. How does Kerry respond to this? With his spokesman, of course. David Wade: “we made a decision not to allow the Republican hate machine to use democratic House candidates as proxies in their distorted spin war in which once again they're willing to exploit brave American troops.”

So, when democrats thump the drum daily with their hateful comments it’s OK, but when a democrat shows their hateful nature outright then it is somehow turned around to be a “Republican hate machine”? Go back and read both the Kerry statement and then the Bush statement. Make your own decision: which is borne of hatred? The democrats, specifically Senator Asshole, haven’t been exploiting the troops for their political gain with their daily anti-war rhetoric? Pardon my French, but that’s plain bullshit. Republicans: the best thing you can do to hurt the democrats in this mid-term election is just let them speak.