[agooga]

Thanks for the post.

I don't know why I am so irate about this. I have ZERO love for Webb, too, but I REALLY want to see the republican party behave with intelligence, grace and dignity more than anything else.

Apparently it takes a big leap to be a true conservative AND see the innocence of Webb's passage. You and I passed the test-- let's hope others follow.

[mrsmith]

And think of all the Philistines on Free Republic who wouldn't vote for Robert Mapplethorpe because of his art.

Thank goodness there are "real conservatives" like you to tell us that art and artists are above our unenlightened examination.

[tongue-tied]

He doesn't deserve to be elected, but at the same time he doesn't deserve to be branded a pedophile defender because he didn't contact S. Vietnamese authorities when he witnessed this event. The authorities would have said "Yes....and?"