[longtermmemmory]

Respectfully, Murtha served the country, and if you want to be technical, so did algore and kerry.

Service alone is not enough.

And as for being a lawyer, some of us on FR are lawyers.

We have to be SUPER on best behavior for this one because hopefully more candidates will do this. It will be invaluable for us to play nice.

Personally I would like to hear him say he will activly support a federal marriage amendment.

or will work on fixing the alternative minimum tax

or any other number of questions.

We will all be able to read his visit later and I am 100% certain opposition research will also be reading the thread.

so once more, we all need to play nice.

:-)

[jmyrlefuller]

Well put.

I, too, would like to see several of the other candidates face the populace here at Free Republic. Most of us are very intelligent, definitely well-informed voters and activists and it’s a nice place to get the word out to some solid grass-roots conservatives.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

You are right. And there is nothing dishonorable with being an honest lawyer just as any honest work is honorable.

And you make a point how that these type of candidate threads should be held to a higher standard. I "let my ugly out" and I apologize for going too negative after another Republican possible candidate.

It might have been my sinus headache talking.