Al Gore 2008!

Galen

hey mr. ed...my hats off to you sir, you ring my bell! youve got the _uts man..do you have body guards and navigate st.george behind a bullet proof windsheild ? is it lonely sitting in your office with no one to commiserate with ? have your right wing colleagues ercted a dartboard in your honor ? limberger on your engine block? take heart, your weekly column and blogs are read and appreciated by many of us (not a lot perhaps) who shar your point of view. keep up the good work, you've got frank rich looking over his shoulder..

We've had this talk before, but liberals used to be the core of the Republican party. What's in a name?

I don't expect much from either party.

I'm glad that you identified liberals as having been the core of the Democratic party, since liberals today are working to undermine our entire American system. Recently a liberal judge in Michigan wrote in an opinion regarding the NSA terrorist survelliance program that "the Constitution gives no pwer to the president." Unfortunatly Article Two of the Constitution says differently.

This same judge has made a habit of taking cases from other judges on her circut if she does not feel that they would rule properly. By properly, I mean is support of liberal ideas such as affirmative action. She also uses her post as chief justice of that circut to take everyu case that will be argued by the ACLU, an organization which she holds an associate boardmember seat in Michigan.

In the near past liberals have also ruled that saying the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because of the words "under God" and that war memorials in California violate the First Ammendment because they have crosses as part of the memorial. LIberals in the vein of JFK and FDR were good men and did many good things for this country. JFK even broke with his own party to grant equal rights to all Americans. However, these men would have more similarities to mainstream Republicans today than with the liberals running around now. LIberals may have always been the core of the Democrastic party, but todays liberals are really yesterdays leftists.

If everyone in the US were Republicans, we would have a seriously screwed up country.

Oh, I cracked myself up. A MORE seriously screwed up country.

If everyone were Democrats, same deal.

We need the variety, the dissent, the differences. It's the strength of our country. I don't think liberal is a dirty word. Sometimes I disagree with them, but I also disagree with conservatives. I disagree with most people most of the time. I also agree. That's the beauty of a free speech society. Incongruity, ambivalence, and inconsistency somehow make for the possibilities of growth.