[Miss Marple]

I will go along with you on that.

Another thing I have noticed is how liberals bait the trap, and conservatives fall into fighting amongst themselves every time.

Racicot could not refuse to meet with the homosexual group, without being branded a bigot and ending up with ACT UP camped on the RNC steps 24/7. I imagine the original request for a meeting was to get that sort of reaction.

Instead, he defused that situation by meeting with them and listening. Then, of course, Bauer and his group cannot simply make a quiet phone call to find out what's going on. Nope, they take the bait, and publish a silly "open letter" and demand a meeting, in which they threaten the RNC with walking if THEIR agendas are not met!

Divisive politics rears its ugly head again, this time started by the left but escalated by the right. It is foolish and counterproductive, unless you want to see Kerry or Dean elected.

[xsmommy]

don't you see? the ONLY answer is to sit home and signal our displeasure with the administration over this pandering to gays. no matter that the dem nominee will then prevail and the homosexual agenda will become the law of the land, dang it, we will have TAKEN A STAND based on principles, and we will be snug and cozy and smug in our self-satisfaction knowing that we are RIGHT! i suppose another alternative would be to throw our support behind some loser third party candidate, INSTEAD OF staying home, but the result would be the same and we could FEEL GOOD in our SMUGNESS.