[ruffedgrouse]

--It's clear the war is going very badly and that Iraq is on the verge of a civil war-- How ironic that the one well-known republican with the cojones to admit that is a woman! Kind of like Ben Gurion's quip that Golda Meir was the only man in his cabinet. --Politics is sometimes about making the least bad choice. I know some of my fellow Republicans will stay home on Election Day, hoping to send the party a message that they're fed up with the current leadership. But putting the Democrats in control won't bring about needed changes -- it will make matters even worse. The place for revolt is within the party itself, by urging the elected representatives to pick carefully when they choose House and Senate leadership in January and by challenging incumbents in primaries next time if they don't stand up for basic Republican principles-- This is where she loses me. Being a leading republican figure, she can't admit that we are really a ONE-party system; the one-party having two wings called "democrat" and "republican."

[AxelPaulsenJr]

This is where she loses me...... Being a leading republican figure, she can't admit that we are really a ONE-party system; the one-party having two wings called "democrat" and "republican

And that's where you lose me.........

[MEGoody]

It's clear the war is going very badly and that Iraq is on the verge of a civil war-- How ironic that the one well-known republican with the cojones to admit that is a woman!

The problem with Iraq is the same thing we've run into before. Everyone is too busying trying to make everyone happy, they won't take the gloves off and really go at it.