[Lance Romance]

Thankfully, CBS managed to protect our family values by rejecting an advocacy ad from MoveOn.org as too controversial. That little spot features kids working as dishwashers and garbage collectors, asking "Guess who's going to pay off President Bush's $1 trillion deficit.

Huh? It's incredible that she is even paid to write this drivel.

Bill Clinton was the master of the photo op. Not to mention his innumerable "Presidential" visits.

[cripplecreek]

And liberals cant figure out why us "ignernt rednecks" wont vote for democrats.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Ben Afleck was going to be the starter? How the hell did that happen in the first place?

[speedy]

Ellen Goodman is a museum-piece holdover of 1970s "free to be you and me" feminism. She has been whining the same old sob story for 30 years. The civilized world has moved on to better things. I'm okay, you're not okay, Ellen.

[section9]

Ah, but your missing the good news. This column is all about what Ellen believes that the NASCAR Nation should be thinking, not about her ruminations about why most NASCAR people think the way they do.

It's all about what she thinks, not about what they, the Great Unwashed, think. I can guarandamteeya that the people around John Kerry think the same way.

She hasn't a freaking clue, which is all to the good.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Notasoccermom]

"If this voter is going to swing, it better be to the party that offers his kids more than a trip around and around and around the same old track."

My kids can travel with pride in a circle any day with GWB! George, start your engine.

[Rob45and2]

As usual the Libs print what they want the truth to be rather than the truth itself. This is propaganda pure and simple.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Wouldn't Janet Jackson have done a better job on the National Anthem than Leann Rimes (sp)?

CG

[NonValueAdded]

What a rhymes-with-witch. About as pure a hit piece as you will ever read. And she styles herself as a swing voter? Yeah, right. She would gnaw off her hand before ever voting Republican. Her bio probably claims her proudest moment is casting her vote for Teddy the K.

[elli1]

I have no idea what she was trying to say.

[WILLIALAL]

"The analysts may not think of NASCAR Dads as green, but a well-oiled administration that revoked approval of the Kyoto protocols, made a scam of fuel emission standards and barely uttered a post-9/11 peep about renewable energy is offering the next generation a future as dark as the track. As Dan Becker of the Sierra Club says, the White House environmental policy "begins and ends with `Gentleman, start your engines.' "

Kyoto protocols, that says it all. A NASCAR fan's biggest concern is Kyoto Protocals? Liberals, they just don't get it. There is a reason they don't win in the south.

[Quilla]

." But by and large, NASCAR Dad has become a shorthand for socially conservative and economically struggling white men.

My son has been invited to the upcoming race in Bristol with some customers of mine. They will be traveling in a $200,000 motor home, staying in the infield, and paying a pretty penny for the priviledge. I don't see NASCAR fans as struggling economically.

[Steely Tom]

Wow, this is really total poppycock (drivel having already been taken). Ellen Goodman seems to have taken up the east-coach franchaise of Maureen Dowd-ism; her M.O. is really just the same: re-state reality through a filter of absurdly exaggerated irony. If she can get the reader to see the world through her excrement-colored glasses, she's really in the catbird seat: she can ridicule anything she wants and sound witty, letting her readers share in her bogus sense of superiority, the blind conning the blind.

When you're pathetic and don't know you're pathetic, than you're really pathetic.

(steely)

[N. Theknow]

Diarrhea of the keyboard alert!

Hello Ellen, why don't you ride with a DemocRAT and see where you wind up.

My tag line should give you a clue.

[#3Fan]

The NASCAR Dad may like risk-taking as a spectator sport, but these days he's the guy buckling the kids in the child seats. In the same vein, he believes in national defense but doesn't want anybody conning his sons and daughters into combat over missing weapons of mass destruction.

I bet she's wrong about this. It seems to me that the people that most support the military (and the steps Bush has taken to defend this country), Nascar people, would have the most kids in the military, or at least a good percentage relative to other demographic groups, especially soccer moms.

[CPOSharky]

Then, with Air Force One parked within camera range of the track...

Obviously she has never been to Daytona, much less to a NASCAR race.

Ellen, you ignorant ****, the Daytona airport is next door to the track. You can't park Airforce One at Daytona and NOT be in camera range of the track.

[bondjamesbond]

The analysts may not think of NASCAR Dads as green, but a well-oiled administration that revoked approval of the Kyoto protocols, made a scam of fuel emission standards and barely uttered a post-9/11 peep about renewable energy is offering the next generation a future as dark as the track. As Dan Becker of the Sierra Club says, the White House environmental policy "begins and ends with `Gentleman, start your engines.' "

Kyoto was rejected by the Senate 99 to zero, one of the few unanimous votes I can remember from that body. To say this administration scotched Kyoto is to deny reality.

What is a fuel emission standard? Most engines are designed to burn fuel, not emit fuel.

Regarding renewable energy, didn't Bush just give away about a quadrillion dollars to the corn farmers in Iowa for ethanol? It's a political pay-off of course, but to say the administration is not backing renewable energy ignores this massive outlay of money.

And as for Dan Becker of the Sierra Club, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that he's a died-in-the-wool Democrat who would not support a Republican administration under any circumstances.

[G.Mason]

You have to love the way the left sqiurms and groans over GWB's use of the "bully pulpit".

I know I do.

[frithguild]

So wrong, so many ways, there is just not enough time in the day to critique this collection of wishful sop.

I just wish I could see her face when the crown cheered our President when he took the mike. But I bet she didn't watch the race.

[Corin Stormhands]

I don't know much about stock car racing, but every time some politician waves the checkered flag at this man, I want to put on the brakes. I think they're forgetting the dad in the NASCAR Dad.

Ellen, you don't know much about NASCAR Dads either...or anything else for that matter.

[glock rocks]

Whoa doggies! I found a fact in this drivel!

In 1992, Bill Clinton got booed at a NASCAR event.