[Rokke]

"Republicans Until The Going Gets Tough."

That's great. They fall right into that great wastebasket of the weak spined that includes "moderates", "true conservatives", "Reagan democrats" and anyone else who feels a need to "prove" their independence by rooting themselves firmly in the undefinable.

[Oberon]

Hey...since when is voting "Republican" the acid test for character? We commonly riducule yellow-dog Democrats...those voters who would vote for an old yella dog, if he was on the D side of the ticket.

The same kind of unthinking party loyalty is just as contemptible on the R side of the ticket. It wasn't political parties that made this country what it once was and could be again; it was adherence to principle.

[pollyannaish]

I have to tell you...they're driving me crazy, from the government on down.

That said, this kind of thing sure has a way of separating the wheat from the tares and I have an all new perspective on who to trust. So it's not all bad.