Other then the desperate right-wing blogger looking for filler material to justify remaining a republican and other republicans on newspaper and magazine website comment pages like this one looking for the same, is anyone else actually paying attention to the administration anymore? If Fox really is cutting back on their Iraq reporting (something they probably should have done a year ago) then I think it's safe to assume that this presidency is in it's "last throes".

It's also safe to assume that in the last eight years the media lost what little credibility it still had going into them. This administration spun and spun and spun and no one tried to debunk it. Guaranteed they are going to try and overcompensate for it by tearing the next president a new one everytime they open their mouths, and sure enough it will be a democrat.

Part of the problem with this issue is that nobody wants to call a spade a spade. There's a reason why that hick in Podunk Nebraska who can't afford to get sick and is about to default on his mortgage cares more about two guys marrying each other then he does about his own problems, it's because it's fun to hate people who are different and build your life around it. The whole "bible says it's wrong" crap is just the excuse. This is why the Nazis got into power. Why focus on real economic solutions when it's more fun to blame the jews?! Talk radio is built entirely around this logic.

Someone asked earlier about how people could possibly think homosexuality is a choice given the logic, I have debated several of these people on different forums and you would be surprised to see the lack of interest in the cause of homosexuality. Not only do these people have no explaination for what causes it, they don't even care. Yet they're somehow convinced that gays still need to get "fixed", though how you go about doing that when you have no interest in what caused it in the first place is beyond me.

Let's make something very clear, these people oppose civil unions as well. To them there is no difference. This is how far their hatred towards gays goes. Let's not kid ourselves into thinking if gays would just accept civil unions that all will be fine, it won't. The only thing they will settle for is the Final Solution.

The republicans knew what they were doing when they made this issue a priority, they knew it wouldn't go away, unlike the Soviet Union did. If we are serious about challenging this ideology, we need to get someone to go on national television and say what needs to be said, the opposition to gay marriage is based on hatred of gays. Beating around the bush and playing word games accomplishes nothing. This needs to start with challenging the right with questions about why gay bashing is used every election year. If they didn't hate gays, then they wouldn't. It's time to point out that the emporer has no clothes.

for this accurate portrayal of how all republicans really are.

I'm not surprised that Brownback and Huckabee are pulling out all the stops, by all republican logic, they should be the frontrunners. The fact that the "holier then thou" crap isn't working this time around might be a sign that the religious rights stranglehold on the party might finally be beginning to wane (and hopefully it will finally send the message that the American people don't want what they have to offer). 8 years of dumbass may have scared even the party faithful away from the idea of electing someone whose only source of advise is Jesus. I little word of advise to those "dead enders" who still stand by Bush; if your guy turns out to be wrong about everything, then perhaps God isn't on his side.

As for the Ron Paul supporters, don't knock them, we need as many crazies out there stealing support away from whoever the real republican nominee will be as possible.

...they're onto our plot steal their pickups! ABORT! ABORT!

Don't get me wrong, Darwin stood a better chance of getting into heaven then Huckabee does of getting into the White House, but to expand on what someone else said earlier, what exactly does it mean to "reclaim America for Christ"? Huckabee's not the only one tiptoeing around this issue. All the christian wingnuts want to assure those of us who might actually stand in their way that they are not out to force their faith on anyone, yet our definition of force and theirs might not be the same thing. If you want to outlaw something just because your faith doesn't like it, then that IS forcing your faith on people. Might want to inform some of them of that.

You have a state that is run mostly by republicans and you wonder why it's corrupt?

I would think that's self explainitory.

given the fact that your president turned out to be wrong about EVERYTHING. Of course I didn't see a whole lot of humility coming out of the right after the Clinton/Lewinski mess.