[dubyajames]

You're right - anyone who talks like this in the campaign does not have the temperment for public office.

It also works against the purpose of his run. He is attempting to position himself as a rational centrist/mainstream moderate running against a radical, right-wing, fire-breathing fundamentalist. By being such a loose cannon and eschewing civility completely, he only makes Doolittle look good and himself like the jacka$$ that he is.

[Torie]

I can't think actually of a district in California with worse demographics for Kirby's message. He might have gotten more traction in my district, the most GOP in California, but socially considerably more moderate, with a Congressman that has discovered that Hezbollah (sp), the terrorist gang in Lebanon, might have certain redeeming qualities. And folks in my district are far too selfish and happy with their own somewhat functional public schools, isolated islands in a sea of dysfunctionality, to give a damn about the systematic screwing of poor kids' educational opportunities by the state.