@Nate Rose: Care to expand on that?

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You are out of your mind.

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@ SoCal Chris

Thanks for the recommendation, but I’m quite a bit too old for that sort of thing now. Perhaps about 25 years ago it would have been a good idea, but I was pretty busy then and the need did not seem so pressing. Now I’m just waiting for Zero’s Death Panel to euthanize me.

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Perhaps this is appropriate for the sake of remembering that day so as to do all we can do as a nation to not repeat history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDcdpEBctaQ&feature=PlayList&p=514A8732EAD029EC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27

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@Mike’s America:
[Then Democrats started carping that we weren’t bombing anyone yet. And after we did start bombing in Afghanistan they started saying we were in “a quagmire… another Vietnam.”]

You are right. It frustrates the heck out of me. The ol’ darned if you do and darned it you don’t seems to always apply to everything Republicans do in the Democrats eyes! I know, too, that no one should appease these folks when it comes to doing what’s best for the country. Because if you did, as you said, then they’d not be happy with that either. It’s really quite childish if you ask me.

@Dr.D:
[There was a time when politics was seen as something that gentlemen could do. It involved honest debate, thought, skill, integrity.]

Dr. D, I had a thought to run past you (and I’m being sincere, btw). Why don’t you, if you aren’t already involved, run for a local office in your county or district? We need people who have those qualities!!

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@Dr.D: I disagree that all policians are “scum.” That’s just the kind of thinking that Dems encourage. Since their voters don’t care about principles, only power, such thinking only turns off votes for Republicans/conservatives who have values, even if they never attain the perfection they seek. At least they seek to be better than they are.

I could put together a long list of names of our current leaders who are doing a very good job of expressing the will of the people on our side of the fence. And they deserve our full support, including financial support, in the weeks and months ahead.

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@ SoCal Chris

You said, “I think MOST Americans are agreed on the desire to keep our homeland safe, first and foremost.” I’d like to think that, but I can’t. Some time since 9/11, something has changed. For one thing, (and this was definitely while GWB was in the White House), there has ceased to be any interest whatsoever in guarding our borders. To talk about securing our borders is to brand yourself as an enemy of the (alien) people.

There was a time when politics was seen as something that gentlemen could do. It involved honest debate, thought, skill, integrity. Today all of those things are gone from the scene, replaced by political posturing, spouting endless nonsense that persuades no one, and mid-night deal making. Today’s pols are the scum of the earth, both in congress (no capital letter any more), and in the executive (no capital here either) branch. Good people do not want to submit themselves to the sort of low life, unethical existence that is required to be a pol today. There are very few exceptions, such as Dr. Ron Paul, but I honestly don’t understand why they bother.

If Washington, DC were to wash away into the Atlantic, it would do a lot to clean up the country, although we would have to worry about the water pollution on the east coast. It would certainly mean no more Maryland crabs for many generations!

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@SoCal Chris: I remember too that we were all Americans after 9/11. For about a week. Then Democrats started carping that we weren’t bombing anyone yet. And after we did start bombing in Afghanistan they started saying we were in “a quagmire… another Vietnam.”

They’ve poisoned the well of civil political discourse in this country and now they are complaining about how bad the water tastes!

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@Dr.D:
While I understand your thoughts on the constant battle with the statist, big government mentality of some in our country (which is a constant struggle, to be sure), I always remember back on Sept. 11, 2001, when, if only for a brief window of time, we were all Americans, not Democrat or Republican, etc. In my opinion, that time in our nation’s history showed that we have the “country first” mentality as a shared value when faced with something so tragic as on that day.

Of course, I in no way want another attack in order to experience the unity we held briefly!!! My point is, that when it comes to national security and immediate threats to it, I think MOST Americans are agreed on the desire to keep our homeland safe, first and foremost. That may be the only thing the left and right agree on, but it’s something!

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@ SoCal Chris

“How about we focus on the real terrorists who hate this country and want to do us ALL harm?”

A significant portion of the REAL Terrorists are called Dems today, unfortuantely, and they are thw ones closest to us today.

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