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They may madden you, but without them you are looking at less than 200 seats in the house, and 40 senators.

Good luck with that. The party has aligned itself with the values voters, and it's not easy to re-align a party to win back disaffected non-value fiscal conservatives who have gone to the democrats or two 3rd parties or are just out of politics.

We've spent 30 years picking and choosing wedge issues on both sides of the aisle trying to find that illusive 51% majority.

Value voters are easy to get (just a few issues), are hard workers, and show up to vote. Unless they don't see the difference between the parties.

Frankly, I don't think it is too much to ask as a voter that the leadership take more seriously e-mails which make young men uncomfortable, or at least to fully follow their OWN PROCESS, which should have included the entire 3-member page panel. And it wouldn't have killed Hastert to actually READ the e-mails.

That, plus Hastert's botching of the issue on Friday with his dismissive comments, make it nearly impossible for him to look good now. He had a good story, but once you get it wrong, it looks like you are lying to cover it up.

Hastert deserves better, because he's a good man, but the fact that he didn't see the importance of getting his team together and getting all the facts before everybody started speaking is enough to show that he has some pretty serious flaws as a leader.

Get a grip.

Hassert did read the EMAILS.

The emails are the non sexual messages. These are recorded in the house email system..

INSTANT MESSAGES ARE NOT EMAILS.

Those were revealed THURSDAY.
Foley was asked to resign by Friday.
The Republicans had the Instant Messages for ONE DAY.

Democrats had the instant messages of a sex predator for THREE YEARS.

We can comfortably argue, as leader PELOSI KNEW FOR THREE YEARS!!!!!

One day vs THREE YEARS.

The democrats are scum. Hassert is fine.

If you don't like facts go to the DUmies.

They may madden you, but without them you are looking at less than 200 seats in the house, and 40 senators.

They may be social conservatives. But they've made their bed and they're going to lay in it. Especially since the Dims are even worse than they were when the religious Right coalition formed. The fundamental reason for the alignment is actually stronger than ever for the values voters.

Frankly, I don't think it is too much to ask as a voter that the leadership take more seriously e-mails which make young men uncomfortable, or at least to fully follow their OWN PROCESS, which should have included the entire 3-member page panel. And it wouldn't have killed Hastert to actually READ the e-mails.

The average voter pays very little attention. This whole thing is a non-starter. The Dims voters will be a little agitated, the press will salivate.

I'm actually beginning to think this will backfire and we might gain seats in one or both houses.

Social conservatives aren't as big a rubes as the Dims and libmedia think. They're not even as big a bunch of rubes as Robertson/Falwell/Dobson think.