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I think there are ALLEGED christian groups among the "right" wing of the republican party that ARE like the taliban... the only way to escape the smear from the extremist left, is to one, GET RID of the Pat Buchanan types once and for all. We won narrowly last time without them... we need to keep them OUT. If they aren't in the party, we cannot be blamed for their "every egg and every sperm is a person" insanity... or their bomb throwing, take no prisoners hyperbole. And TWO, paint the lefties for being the Communists and Socialist Nazis they are... The extreme right (who want government to dictate THEIR morality to the rest of us) and the extreme left (who want government to dictate their socialist agenda to the rest of us) BOTH agree on letting government TELL citizens what to do with their personal lives.

Most folks just want to be left alone... except for our right wingers here and left wingers on salon. The party that promises to leave us the hell alone the most, is the one that will win... If the dems succeed in presenting the pubbies as the "big spending" government "tells us what to do" party... THEY will win.

One thing about having a texan christian president.... he is fiercely independent and stands for folks freedom to do what they will... and in his case, that involves giving Jesus Christ a plug from the bully pulpit at every reasonable opportunity...

There is coming a major concretization of the pubbie party... the ones that promote rules and the old testament type of attitudes towards the law, sin and punishment vs. the ones that are aware of their own shortcomings, and would often rather choose to extend grace, mercy and forgiveness along with a helping hand to other "failures" in life's adventure.

Truth be told, as a person in my own past, I have often sided with the talibanists among the "faithful" who SOUND all righteous and stuff. Actually they are pretty miserable folk, always so upset about others, they fail to live the postitive ideals their "faith" supposedly promotes. In Jesus' day, HE called them hypocrites.

If the dems actually think they can pull this off, and do, they deserve to win... we can overcome evil with good. Or so it is said. But will we?