[Teacher317]

School year is going fine, but one painful week-and-a-half of finals is coming up.

As for eggs-in-one-basket and nose-despite-face arguments, I ceratinly agree with the main point, that virtually any R is better than any D... but... I also can't stand idly by while an R continues to do things that I disagree with. It's like criticizing the AZ FReepers for trying to get McCain removed from office for his Left-worshipping tactics. I have to use my voice, my vote, to show EVERY elected official, even my favorites, that I won't support him if he strays too far off the path.

Again, in foreign relations, he has been masterful, and the right man at the right moment. At home, I have precious little to be pleased with to counter the displeasure of the Patriot Act, the budget, the increases in social programs (especially the 24 year old Dept of Educ that I was hoping Reagan would shut down), the appeasement of illegals, CFR, and now this. (Add in the ongoing failure to beat the filibustering Senate, to open ANWR during a "war-for-oil" to shut the Lefties up, or to seal the borders... and the "he's only been in office for a little while" excuse doesn't apply anymore when his term is half-way up!)

I want to repeat my earlier line... why can't W promote Freedom for Americans as firmly as he has for Iraqis?

I am left to hope and pray that we find a good challenger for the primaries (a snowball's chance in Hell's hot-tub), or else I just have to refuse to pull a level for the most important office of all.

[The Coopster]

There won't be a viable challenger. We need to quit whining and get on the phone to the White House. If we don't ALL make calls/our voices heard to the people who matter, than it's not their fault - it's ours. It's exactly like not being able to bitch if you didn't vote.

I mean c'mon - what's more productive - pissing and moaning here, and voting for someone else, or informing the guy with experience (who's already there) how his constituents really think and feel? Bottom line - if a person thinks that acting a certain way will increase his chances to keep his job, he'll do it. I don't care if you are the President, or a Operations Manager.

[Travis McGee]

Visualize President Hillary and Att. General Schumer.

[jammer]

You've made a great defense, but you didn't address the nose-face analogy enough (you must have had plenty of other points to counter!). Cutting off the nose isn't being done to spite the face--it's being done to remove the cancer that the nose has become. It isn't pretty in the short run, but it's the only path to long-term survival.