Good grief, that clueless fraud from Alaska could have been a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the Presidency. I don't call that marginal.

Which means that the current RNC Chair has commented on this repugnant Saltsman person and his repellent holiday CD BEFORE either Ken Blackwell or Michael Steele have. Hm. Well, at least Duncan had the guts to take a reporter's call.

We're also wondering if anyone will ask Mike Huckabee for his reaction. After all, Saltsman worked for him, and Huckabee is supporting him for Chair.

Mean-spirited, tone-deaf, science-denying, minority-hating faux Christians. Those are the folks who make up the Republican Party today. Good luck with all that, guys.

I had to pull over because I was listening to the report on NPR, that John Leonard had hung on to vote for Barack Obama... the day before he died.

But as thrilled as I am about Obama's victory, I'm dismayed by the anti-gay votes in Florida, California and Arizona. There is much work left to do.

But that's okay, The entire story of America is "Who's Next?" Gays just have to keep working on that. They're NEXT.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Will plumbers riot in the streets?

I'm curious as to where the writer was in Florida, and why she was calling first Spanish-speakers and then right-wing nutbags in the Panhandle. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm volunteering for Obama in Miami-Dade County and our efforts are very targeted within the county. I've canvassed in majority-Hispanic neighborhoods and in majority-Anglo enclaves. Each time, I've been given a list of folks who are supporters or who have expressed some interest in Obama but who have not yet voted. If they tell us they've voted, we check them off. If they haven't voted yet, or if we haven't reached them face-to-face, we call them. In other words, we're getting OUR vote out and not wasting our time with people who think Obama is the Antichrist.

Sorry, but this just doesn't sound right to me.

And of course we know that Canada has provinces, not states.

AND.... we consistently mispronounce the term "anti-Semitic"?

Repeat after me: "ANTI-SEMITIC"?

"semITIC"?

"semITIC"?

Get it?

Please pronounce it correctly. Only THEN can we discuss whether the Republicans are anti-SEMITIC.

Which, by the way, they are.

The young voters I've spoken with in South Florida (not the ones working on the Obama campaign, obviously) tell me they're planning to vote on Election Day. The early-voting lines here have been too long and the waits haven't meshed well with their work/school schedules. Plus, schools in Miami-Dade County are off on Tuesday. So Election Day works better for them, especially if they're young parents.

Additionally, since our Republican governor recently extended early-voting hours (thus forever endearing himself to the McCain campaign, NOT!), folks in Florida have all day Friday and Saturday, and four hours on Sunday, to vote if they change their minds.

So we're still nagging them! The only way we Obama volunteers will leave these voters alone is WHEN THEY ACTUALLY VOTE. Until then, we're calling, e-mailing, knocking on their doors.... if they want to get rid of us, they know how to do it. VOTE!

I voted early for Obama in Florida on Monday. Guess I'm doomed.

It always fascinates me when self-described "Christians" like this nutcase — and I don't mind Salon giving her a platform so everyone can see what (shall we say) whack jobs these people are — insist on hewing to the spirit of the Old Testament's vengeful and angry God. He is one scary Deity, that's for sure. But see, Christ — whose story, as we know, is told in the NEW Testament — was supposed to fix all that. By dying for our sins, he reconciled God to the world and the world to God. So, if everything is supposed to be hunky dory between Christians and the Big Guy now, why do these people keep seeing Him through vengeful and angry glasses instead of loving and forgiving ones?

It's a mystery to me. Unless, of course, they're vengeful and angry in their own lives. I don't think God appreciates it when they project their petty emotions onto Him.

I've also looked in the Bible and can't find a single reference to someone named "Obama." Any help on this, fellow posters?

This IS Crist getting back at McCain for not picking him. And it's Crist positioning himself for 2012. And in that spirit, it's Crist attempting to be the kind of inclusive, progressive Republican governor that Jeb Bush was supposed to be but wasn't. Now.... if only he can do something about those "skeletons in the closet."

This Republican party is one pathetic sack o' you-know-what.

NEVER feel sorry for these people. Watch them fight and enjoy it. With Palin's eye set squarely on 2012, and with the GOP "boys" (Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Giuliani, Barbour, et. al.), furious at her elevation, it should be quite a show.

I'm astounded, as my fellow posters have pointed out, that you failed to mention the notorious Susan Smith. In addition to accusing a nonexistent black man for assaulting her and taking her car (with the boys in the back seat), she also was the stepdaughter of a local Republican Party official who sexually abused her — more family values! And of course, Newt Gingrich infamously blaimed the Democratic Party for the alleged horrific crime. God, these people make me ill. I can't imagine what it's feels like to be a black person when white people do stuff like this.