[maxwellp]

".... and giving the voters a chance to form an opinion contrary to official Rat policy."

That's the problem. What is the Rat policy? Every time I hear the Dem candidates speaking all they do is bash President Bush, or sometimes each other. I no longer listen to them. President Bush is my man. He's doing a great job preventing another 9/11 and this is what's most important to me, as well as many, many Americans.

[chimera]

That's the problem. What is the Rat policy? Every time I hear the Dem candidates speaking all they do is bash President Bush, or sometimes each other.

That about sums it up. Howard Dean has been carried to the brink of the Rat nomination with one and only one message: "I hate Bush and you should, too.". I have yet to hear a Rat articulate any kind of coherent and reasonable alternative to Bush's approach to the WOT.

The last reasonable voice I heard in the Rat party was Robert Casey, and up to the day he died the Rats ostracized him for his principled stand against abortion. Rats are the true party of intolerance and suppression of dissent. It speaks either to the ignorance of the sheeple or effectiveness of the Rats' lies (maybe both) that the perception among the electorate is 180 degrees opposite of this.

[sweetliberty]

"Every time I hear the Dem candidates speaking all they do is bash President Bush"

That IS the RAT policy....isn't it?