[epigone73]

Don't forget more domestic threats as well. There's an ugliness on the Left of late, with calls for physical violence becoming so common as to pass unnoticed.

[jdege]

The left isn't going to resort to violence this election cycle - they're still sufficiently detached from reality that they think they're going to win.

Bush will win, this year, and we'll gain a few seats in the Senate - but not enough to end a filibuster. So 2005 and 2006 the left will be even more obstructionist than they are now.

So we'll pick up a couple more Senate seats in 2006, and in 2007, when the GOP has the votes to pass cloture on a filibuster, and finally starts to confirm some decent judges, then we'll see the left resort to open violence.

The 2008 presidential campaign will be accompanied by far more violence than was that of 1968.

And its then that we will see whether the US will continue as a civil society, or if the American Experiment is over.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "There's an ugliness on the Left of late, with calls for physical violence becoming so common as to pass unnoticed."

You got that right! I am more concerned about the Democrats.

From David Frums Diary, NOV. 19, 2002: GORE SPEAKS. The words are by Karenna Gore.

Ms Gore is talking about her father's comments. "We have to do what's best for the country, and it is not good for the country to have this kind of divisiveness. And he was on the phone, really calling off the dogs. There were people who wanted to fan the ... the flames of the racial issue and have real unrest. And he was on the phone asking them not to, because of what was best for the country not because of what was best for him politically. And that's really who he is. [end excerpt]

Will there be someone in the Party to stop it this time?

[Lockbar]

Also, don't discount that some extreme domestic leftys have sent out "feelers" to Muslim extremists volunteering to help with terrorist attacks here. Since most US leftys are pansies, they probably don't directly want to get in the line of fire, but will be willing to supply $$ and shelter.

[j_tull]

There's an ugliness on the Left of late, with calls for physical violence becoming so common as to pass unnoticed.

Unless, of course, that violence is to be directed at our enemy.