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I've discarded generations of my families southern democratic heritage. It took me a year and a half to come to the conclusion to do it, but i did. For that year and a half all i heard from my party was unbridled hatred..hatred, for a sitting President. We were moderate democrats, my husband and I, but we were no longer welcomed in the democratic party...we weren't left-leaning enough for them. They threw us out, into the waiting arms of the republicans. Our politics and theirs were no longer compatable. It's as though we were awakened from a 32 year dream and started thinking for ourselves, instead of the party telling us what to think and how to vote. The last straw was when Ted Kennedy said that the Iraq war was devised at the Presidents Crawford ranch, Kennedy speaks for Kerry. They are both of the same mind-set. When they both refused to apologise for the comment, the line was severed between me and the democratic party. You must remember one thing about Democrats..DEFLECT..that is what keeps them alive. Their ability to deflect the issue till it passes.

the two of you seem to have similar writing styles, do you know each other?

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I've discarded generations of my families southern democratic heritage. It took me a year and a half to come to the conclusion to do it, but i did. For that year and a half all i heard from my party was unbridled hatred..hatred, for a sitting President. We were moderate democrats, my husband and I, but we were no longer welcomed in the democratic party...we weren't left-leaning enough for them. They threw us out, into the waiting arms of the republicans. Our politics and theirs were no longer compatable. It's as though we were awakened from a 32 year dream and started thinking for ourselves, instead of the party telling us what to think and how to vote. The last straw was when Ted Kennedy said that the Iraq war was devised at the Presidents Crawford ranch, Kennedy speaks for Kerry. They are both of the same mind-set. When they both refused to apologise for the comment, the line was severed between me and the democratic party. You must remember one thing about Democrats..DEFLECT..that is what keeps them alive. Their ability to deflect the issue till it passes.

I was at a dinner party last weekend, when the subject of immigration came up [we've got elementary schools around here that are close to 100% Mexican and the children are not learning any English]. During the course of the conversation, a tenured professor [whom I knew to come from a long line of yellow-dog democrats], with a named chair, at a fairly prestigious university, admitted that he voted for Jesse Helms.

I do sense that there is a segment of the population that might once have been described as "moderates" [or whatever], but that is just getting fed up with all this leftist/socialist/marxist/multiculturalist/politically correct bullshit.

I think you may be seeing the same sort of thing in guys like Christopher Hitchens.