Repubs about to heap one mistake on top of another
If this is true then the republicans are about to BURY themselves.
They deserve it but WE don't.
Foley has tipped the scales. It made unavoidable to the American people the conclusion that :
1) The republicans, who have promoted themselves as the party of family values, can't even manage a congressional majority effectively let alone a several campaigns in a world war or
2) They are cynical hypocrites we couldn't stand to be with at a party or dinner, and we'd go home
3) BOTH
The battle inside the republican party which seems to have been brewing since 1988 when Reagan retired is now at full tilt.
Let me make my own feelings clear on this one...James Dobson=Noam Chomsky thru the looking glass. It's that simple.Morality and ethics have a place in politics, religion does not. Faith has a place, preaching does not. Consciousness raising activities has a place, policy decisions on the basis of what Christ or Moses or Mohammed said DOES NOT. Christianity does not equal conservatism any more than judaism equaled communism (1900's - 1930's, folks).
I'm not sure if the republican party self destructed over religion, hypocrisy, personal greed (Abramoff, Delay, Ney, Cunningham), refusal to take responsibility (Rumsfeld, Frank, et al), or plan incompetence in decision making (Bremer et al), but it took the republicans 12 years to achieve what it took the democrats from 1932 to 1994 to do.
And now, they are about to run an ad over terrorism in a blatant attempt to drive the voters back to them ..."We're probably morons, but we think correctly about the war(?) so you HAVE to vote for us"
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