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Quite the contrary. I've done more for the GOP than 99 out of 100 people that regularly post to FR. The fact that I have voted straight Republican tickets for decades, yet don't take all Republicans as conservatives or good for America, hardly makes me any less part of the Republican base for all intents and purposes. Yes, I'm to the right, right, right side of the modern day GOP and those that have supported Lott and his lack of principle, his power sharing with RATS and now his latest gaffe that provided a bat for RATS to club the GOP with appears to be your problem, not mine. As an Independent Conservative Constitutionist Christian, I am not surprised that the likes of Vacant Lott supporters such as yourself and others try to smear me.

Strident, statist Republicans are not what America needs more of. Independent minded conservatives that put America over any particular party affiliation are. How many Republicans have you campaigned or raised boat loads of money for? I suppose if Snowe or Collins would win a primary, they would autmatically, without hesitation, get your vote? Now, that's pathetic. Try and smear me all you like, my record and posts stand on their own.

I have been accused of some rather odd things as well on FR for not following the worship-line. Among the more colorful things one unbalanced individual said to me were that (1) Clinton was my "god" and then that (2) I had obviously voted libertarian; there are some individuals who are very quick to flame for the oddest reasons. I often wonder how many of them are drunk at the time of posting.

It is a shame, however, to see a senior republican have something innocuous he said interpreted maliciously in the worst possible of many contexts by the media and then that used as a club to take him down. His 1980 comments were in the context of current events like with Carter, Iran, inflation, canal treaties, etc, for goodness sakes!