Is that come the election, in true yellow dog fashion, I will vote for whomever is the Democratic Party nominee.

I just want not to have to hold my nose with one hand while I mark my ballot with the other.

I confess that it baffles me that Her Imperial Majesty, the candidate whose scary, vast, much touted "experience"-- largely as a spouse to a politician-- is mainly illusory and whose votes and positions have been antithetical to my small d democratic values is the front runner of my party and continues to attract such rabid, robotic support.

"How do I tell my boys about how dangerous it is to use hard drugs in a rational way when they can look at a guy who will be President and see that he didn't think it was any big deal?"

I imagine in much the same way you'll tell them how honorable and necessary it is to serve out their commitment to their country when they can look at a guy who was President and see that he didn't think it was any big deal.

Or maybe in the same way that you'll tell them how bad it is to lie, especially if lots of people can get hurt really badly, when they can look at a guy who was President and see that he didn't think it was any big deal.

I agree, a GOP split like that would be delightful.

I only hope that the Democratic Party's convention doesn't wind up the same way!

Let's brew up another tempest in a teapot and call it a crisis.

I admire some things about Barry Goldwater. Does that make me a hypocrite or conservative shill?

On the other hand if I, say for instance, voted in favor of a bootless war of choice and then tried to pass it off as a vote in favor of weapons inspections, that might lay me open to a complaint of being an outright liar at worst and a foolish dupe at best.

Yep, that's about my analysis, too. Edwards and Obama may well be splitting the same base of voters, saddling us with Her Imperial Majesty as a candidate come the general election.

Which bodes ill for the Democratic Party, in my opinion, as the heretofore divided and demoralized Republican base is galvanized to come out in droves to vote ABH (Anybody But Hillary).

If McCain did get the nod and two thirds of the Republicans in the country followed this idiot's advice...

Cut off nose, meet spited face.

But she damned sure voted to authorize a war because of them.

Oh, I forgot. She thought it was an authorization for more inspections.

And we need yet another lying president, why?

Edwards has yet to come in higher than third place in any primary and looks to continue that streak in So. Carolina. Eyes on the prize indeed.

As for Her Imperial Majesty, I don't place any great hope in this past supporter of the conflict, and expert in lip service, to actually do anything to alter the situation in Iraq.

My wife is a schoolteacher. My children are students. I've attended many PTA meetings. Ergo, it must follow as night doth the day-- at least according to NYT logic-- that I have the experience to be a college professor.

In any case, it seems to me that experience is what brought us to this sorry pass to begin with-- Dick Cheney has a ton of it. So too, for that matter, do the toothless, ineffectual, spineless hacks leading the Democratic majority in Congress. You know, the majority that Her Imperial Majesty has followed, and seldom lead, into the current malaise in which our country finds itself.

This country is in a mess in part BECAUSE of the much touted EXPERIENCE of inside-the-Beltway slugs, ward-heelers and machine politicos.

Expect more of the same from those with the same type of "experience."

It's time for a change.

"Then she reminds her competitors that they, like she, pledged not to campaign in Florida or Michigan, and that she will "expect" them to abide by that pledge."

The meaning is clear. There is nothing Her Imperial Majesty will balk at saying or doing in her quest for power. It sickens me that THIS is my party's leading candidate.

I guess this little non-starter of a "corruption scandal" is supposed to leave me with only one choice: to vote for the STERLING, incorruptible character of Her Imperial Majesty.

NOT.

Maybe Her Imperiousness' consort could go back to referring to Obama as the black candidate. That certainly did wonders for her rep.

I can think of 3941 men and women that would argue-- could they speak from the grave-- against their being "collectively better off."

who donated the morning after New Hampshire. I've donated twice since then and expect I will donate again.

It's worth any amount to keep Her Imperial Majesty from driving the Democratic Party into electoral oblivion, as I firmly believe will happen should she get the nod at the convention.

I don't even know you, so I certainly wouldn't consider you a friend, nor would I refer to you as Glutueus Maximus...

As for the rest of your bizarre rant, the less said the better.