[Paul Atreides]

I can just picture the menagerie of flotsam and jetsam losers signing that petition; the homosexual hairdressers, the sasquatch feminists, the abortionists, the militant enviros, the people who whine that life isn't fair, the socialists, etc. People who have no inkling of how to be a productive citizen. All they know how to do is whine and whine and whine and whine.

[gov_bean_ counter]

It appears to me that there is much more to this than meets the eye.

A couple of things strike me as interesting...

1. The Dems always say all politics is local. Plus they point to polls which say GW doesn't have coattails. Politically speaking it would not make sense to attack Bush under these circumstances.

2. The Clinton MO was always character assassination accusing the other side of that which he has done. Re:Newt, Bob Livingstone, Henry Hyde. Then engaging in moral relativity.

3. Early on there were posts on FR about a special task force put together by Bush and Ashcroft for the purpose of investigating corruption. We guessed it would be a top notch team of folks who could keep their mouths shut.

4. Bush refuses to release Presidential documents that go back into the Clinton Administration.

5. Attacks on Pitt.

All these look like acts of despiration. Why? I have watched politics for a long time and have never seen this level of vitriol from the Dems. Over midterm elections? One could reasonably assume there is much more at stake here.