[ohioWfan]

On the other hand, there is much to be learned from this: "if your brother sins, rebuke him.."

Which is why so many Christians on this thread have rebuked you, farmer.

You have sinned mightily, and need to repent.

If you are a Christian, I say that as a sister in Christ. Your behavior has been reprehensible, and un-Christlike.

[farmer18th]

Which is why so many Christians on this thread have rebuked you, farmer.

Fine. I don't mind rebuke. If I go "over the top" in criticizing Laura Bush for her incredibly poor taste, and poor leadership, I deserve rebuke, even if the cause is just. I didn't, for the record, call her a whore; I said that only a whore would speak that way. But even if I had called her a whore, this forum is full of them--myself included. We compromise our principles as conservatives everyday in order to gain larger audiences. There is simply no excuse for her swallowing the gag lines of a paid comic, so as to pander out a few chuckles from the establisment press. It's not one of her greatest moments. The fact that so many people swallow their principles in order to defend her in this instance of bad judgement is also a call for rebuke--yourself included. Politics is not a rah, rah pom-pom rally, ohioWfan. It should be about truth. The fact is that no one is proud of a female relative who makes trash television jokes, unless they are so blind to the truth they are beyond hope.