...for a typical Salonista to slip into equating "the United States Marine Corps" with "Nazi." It was prabably just as easy for Dick Durbin, when he went overboard with the same kind of muddled comparison. Let's have some fun with the key words:

Picking sides

I am picking the U.S. Marine Corps for my side. Okay, now your pick. You want the ACLU?

Big surprise there, Elephant. You go with the brownshirts, and yes, I'll stick with the ACLU. Why? Well, because while history has plenty of examples of guns being more powerful than words demanding freedom, in the long run, words have been shown to be more powerful. From the Magna Carta through to the Civil Rights Movement in this country, history is constantly punctuated with examples of very powerful, well-armed, vested interests giving power to the masses, in observance of one well-known fact: No number of guns can indefinitely suppress the public at large. And that's what this civil war will eventually become.

You can explain all this to your grandkids. Won't they be proud??

-- paulpsd7

So there you have it. My bet is that paul didn't even intend to fall into the trap of the ol' Nazi comparison. But that the left just instinctively makes that link. Military=facsist. And that really is the heart of the matter. Do the Marines "suppress" us? That's what paul is thinking. Or do they defend us? I am willing to bet one general election on the American electorate siding with Marines=defense.

paul, Durbin did a sobbing apology on the Senate floor. Will yours be on YouTube as is Durbin's?

Yep, there is a difference between us. In five years, I expect that President McCain will have led us through a period of slow but progressive growth in the financial markets; a stabilization in the war on terror, some significant progress on budgetary reform in Congress, another World Championship for the Red Sox, none for the Cubs, and that the biggest story five years from now will not be world chaos, but the fact that Tiger Woods will be surpassing Jack Nickluas' record for major-tournament wins. So yeah, there is a difference between us. You might want to get your medication adjusted. Meanwhile, grab me another beer, would ya?

Mind you, we may have a President Clinton in five years. If so, the late night comics will have more fun than they know what to do with. Rush Limbaugh's ratings will go through the roof. But nothing much will happen differently. The markets did okay under her husband, and Bob Rubin will make sure that they do okay under a Hillary Presidency.

If you do want to keep telling me that "the revolution will not be televised," that's okay, but if you're right, the revolution will be brought to us by tinfoil hat wearers like you.

Please make sure that "ending the apartheid regime in Israel" gets into the Obama Presidential Platform, okay?

Dont forget!

It is as if Huckaby were winning the Repubican nomination. How it is that you don't think Obama is another Howard Dean or a Dukakis, I'll never know.

I expect that after November, I won't care.

If McCain is the "lowest" ranked Senator with "a zero rating" from Planned Parenthood, where are Sam Brownback and James Inhofe? How about Mitch McConnell? Cornyn?

I'm no radical when it comes to reproductive rights; I just wonder about the invective being used against McCain.

By the way, the reason that I am supporting McCain is because he has promised, in no uncertain terms, that he will nominate federal judges in the mold of Roberts and Alito. McCain would be within his rights to remind my fellow conservatives that President Reagan gave us O'Connor and Kennedy, so the "Reagan" bar has been set rather low. And there are vast numbers of conservatives who don't care too much about abortion per se, but who are passionate about judges.

So thank you for reminding the conservative base that there is every good reason to enthusiastically support John McCain.

Thanks all for the link to the Planned Parenthood website.

Please, by all means, all others who haven't seen it, go there for yourselves after reading the Lynn Harris article.

I counted 42 -- Forty-two, FORTY FREAKING TWO! -- Senators who all enjoy a 0% rating from Planned Parenthood.

Let us compare that factoid to the pronouncement in this article: "(McCain has received an impressive zero percent rating from Planned Parenthood, the lowest in the Senate.)" Change one McCain vote, or add one McCain vote on stem cell research, and guess what -- McCain would suddenly have something like "the 55th BEST vote in the Senate on reproductive rights."

So, 42 Senators all enjoy "the lowest [Planned Parenthood rating] in the Senate." Dang, that's an informative "rating."

This is going to be a fun year. Next up: Barack Obama's voting record concerning abortion, dating back to his southside activist and Illinois statehouse days.

The reason I fear McCain being elected...

is you can count on the draft being started up.

No, that's Charlie Rangel, (D-NY) who wants to reinstate the draft.

As that other great New Yorker, Yogi Berra, said; "You could look it up."