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"I see little difference between Obama worshippers and Palin worshippers in terms of MO except one is on the left and one on the right. If our goal is to elect a Prez who will reverse this lurch to the left in America we need to do it with eyes wide open, acknowledging the shortcomings of the candidates and being able to see the potholes down the road."

BRAVO. Much wisdom here. You agree with George Washington when he warned in his farewell address against blind worship at the feet of politicians and parties....

"Let me warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally....

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."