Good afternoon, I'm new to this forum, and as my moniker suggests, I'm a Texan and a FORMER DemocRAT who over the last two years has grown totally, utterly, and violently disgusted with the Democratic Party and the vast majority of what it now stands for. It started Clinton's immorality combined with the constant morphing of Algore from what I considered a somewhat respectable guy in the 1980s to a man who'd sell his own children for a vote. Daschle & Gephardt's response of GWB's first national speech sounded like they were treating us like 6-year olds, which ticked me...