ppatt

There's also speaking with one voice, quite possibly a result of single-minded ADD-like qualities. Among my friends and acquaintances who lean right I have seen one fairly common thread -- they seek order in their own minds. The wonderful cacophony and sweet music that arises from earnest attempts to arrrive at solutions that take into account the hopes, desires and needs of everyone are seen by such people as unnecessarily weak-kneed and not deserving of respect...an unnecessary softness that will always be taken advantage of by others. Of course, this is a projection and primarily a reflection of their own innate fear of keeping themselves in order and on an even keel.

This is also why their fears are assuaged by black and white and strong leaders into whom they can vest extraordinary power to deal with the types of people who would tug policy and agenda in many direction. The vexing elevation of myriad agendas and resulting questions are seen as a threat to the order they strive so desperately hard to maintain within themselves.

This is also why they cannot govern. Each and every time they ascend to power they seek to make the job of governing simple when it is not. Perhaps experience running an ostensibly successful (though I have my doubts) corporation that way leads them to believe that it can be practiced in government as well but it leads to failure each and every time.

This is also why they operate better under the specter of threat. We just aren't observant enough to put 2 + 2 together and realize that by and large the threats which, according to them, only they can protect us from are of their own making.

They must be countered in 2 ways -- sound mature exposure of their game and the ultimate recognition that they constitute a threat...to peace, to chances of diplomacy, to the economy, to the middle class and to freedom. As these things happen the amplitude of their fear mongering subsides and more closely resembles mousey, fringe lunatic whinings that no reasonable person would want to associate themself with.

This election is the dems to lose. They don't have to be tolerant of intolerance or racism (there'll be plent of that) and they don't have to be accepting of lunacy and talk of policy that will run our country into the ground any more than it already has been.

To win they only need the truth stated in the most pointed ways.

ppatt

...never would have happened without 9-11. Never would have happened.

ppatt

I don't follow your case for who was spanked, though it was surely the friends and families of people in WTC and those sent to Iraq. I think hindsight, though not 20-20 is far more accurate than foresight. 9-11 certainly provided a political opportunity for some and unprecedented wartime opportunity to a fine new generation of war profiteers...even the realization of this pales in comparison to the Bush economic disaster and how that will be felt....and how McBush will stay the course. He's told us as much.

It sound more like the American people took it in the rear which pales in comparison to any perceived spanking.

Do you have any personal feelings on these things or do you just derive enjoyment over a tired "we're bad but you're worst shtick"? The insights you leave us from "crying in your beer" to "spankings" have everyone here in awe, don't you think?

The general election campaigning has not even started. Grandpaw McBush looks great now but don't go reserving his space on Mt. Rushmore just yet.

Childish taunts aside, we'll all see in good time and someone will get the last laugh then. If you're wrong I doubt you'll be bothered by how deeply you stuck your foot into your mouth so live for today, my friend.