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Come on, kristinn ... who I respect so very much ... Mr. Levin was beyond loopy that night. He was!!!

I've no idea what he agenda was ... other than to mess with a few minds ... a goal thoroughly beneath him, both morally and intellectually ... I had the sense of it that he was using FreeRepublic as an emotional playground that night ... it was confusing for all involved ... I will never forget it ... but to say folks jumped on him ... I just can not agree ... he argued very disingenuously ... in a flippant, sarcastic way ... none of his counterpoints had a beginning or end to them ... so there was nothing, ever, to hold on to ... his intent was to bait, that night ... for reasons which remain a mystery ....

I'd have to side with habs4ever on this. Bush pretty much tells the Palestinians to dump Arafat on the ash heap of history, and comes out with a pretty solid speech and position on Israel - one that does NOT sell Israel out, and Mark Levin was still slamming him.

Personally, I'm tired of those who allow perfect to be the enemy of good enough. I have been quite irritated at a few of the threads that have descended into little more than circular firing squads, or squabbling. And sometimes it's not even an issue of what the problem is, it's how best to solve the problem, or what approach to take. Basic questions of strategy and tactics sometimes divide us, on occasion they bitterly divide us. I believe that if this is not dealt with soon, I fear that the Left will win in 2002.

Everyone on this forum needs to decide whether what we agree on is enough, or if we will allow an occasional disagreement to be enough to split us up and let the Left take over. I'm going to say up front that I think that allowing the Left to win is NOT acceptable, so I'm going to stick here and do what I can. However, if I think the wrong strategy is being used, or if there is a potential problem that could hamstring us down the read, I WILL speak up.

I will also say this much: As someone who is still madder than spit about the backstabbing done to Bret Schundler last year and Ollie North in 1994, I will NOT look favorably upon backstabbing that will elect leftist Democrats, and this applies to RINOs and the right EQUALLY.