[Miss Marple]

An excellent point! So far the only person who has condemned his words as "inappropriate" is the congressional candidate in Iowa who cancelled Kerry's campaign appearance.

Ads should be run asking democrat candidates to condemn Kerry. This should expecially be done in the Senate campaigns.

[JCEccles]

I'm telling you: the Democratic leadership's failure to immediately repudiate Lurch's dishonorable, disgusting insults directed at our brave men and women in uniform cannot be excused. It is a powerful, tacit confession of their own attitudes.

Worse for them, they cannot undo their failure now, they cannot reclaim the time they lost by not immediately standing proudly and decisively to support the troops after this assault on them by a Democratic leader.

A particularly egregious example: where is the "soldier's soldier" Jim Webb's denunciation of Kerry??? Webb's former and retired military supporters and enablers in the Republican Party should be outraged by his silence.

The Republicans must go on the offensive NOW and expand this debacle to stain the rest of Lurch's silent co-conspirators in the Democratic leadership and Party. If this issue remains narrowly about Lurch, the Dems will skate again. It isn't just about Lurch. It is about THEM. It is about THEIR elitist didain for and hatred of our brave men and women in uniform!