Why would the republicans give Chavez any credibility at all. He's a buffoon, not worthy of comment.
I have to agree with you. Why should the Republicans respond to this two-bit dictator who has the maturity of six-year old kids on the schoolyard? His childish, banal name-calling may tickle those who have the same mentality as he does but adults should be above that.
Let the DemocRATS bring up their phony condemnations. As others have pointed out, they have said much worse about President Bush that this ... human has said.
You don't allow criticism of this nature, especially in front of other world leaders in a UN forum, to go unanswered. Rice and Bolton came up with the "We will not dignify President Chavez's remarks with a response ..." which is far to weak ... they needed to hammer this POS with "We condemn these remarks by President Chavez as being both juvenile and irresponsible in the extreme, certainly not worthy of a leader of state, even Venezuela."