Nor do Wingnuts, it would appear. Now, the handle Elephantman is a tad offense to me (I like Elephants very much, thank you -- and you demean the pachyderm's name as much as you demean the male gender), but I digress.

"Just to be clear, since your letter seemed to stem from some serious hysteria" -- strange words from a prissy little stuffed shirt (brown, I'm sure). Hysteria?? Moi?? I'm not loosing sleep about some big swarthy Islamofacist (a very strange term concocted by real deal facists) out to git me. But I digress.

"The choice of the words "effete pansies" for Gore and Kerry and "protective warriors" for Bush and Cheney weren't my chosen words. I was echoing what Glenn Greenwald wrote, and turning it around because in fact I think he got it all exactly wrong."

You folks sure do spin -- perhaps you were a Dervish in a previous life?

"Interesting that you went out of your way to claim that Cheney "gets his kicks from killing little furry & feathered creatures." (Google hits -- 19,500 for "cheney canned hunts")

For me, what makes that so funny is picturing John Kerry, all dolled up like Elmer Fudd, trying to make a bunch of Iowans or Pennsylvanians or Ohioans believe that he too likes killing feathered creatures. Except that everyone knew he was faking it."

Well, politicians do what politicians do -- lie. Kerry was out to reach out & feel for all those bitter folks in the belly of the beast, so to speak. Cheney doesn't give a flying fernando -- as has been pointed out plenty of times, he's not into hunting. He just likes to kill things -- big time. BTW -- Kerry looks like Elmer Fudd?? Jaysus, take off Dick's glasses, put on a plaid hat & coat and you've got Elmer Fudd . . .

Ohh, I'm gonna bwast you wrascally Iwanians . . . "

"And that he'd (that'd be effete Kerry) be happier sipping Chardonnay in Martha's Vineyard, chatting about the next fundraiser at David Geffen's place." No shit, Sherlock. Most normal, well-adjusted and secure-in-their-own sexuality folks are like that. Sipping wine in civilized comfort. Good wine, good talk, good friends, good conversation . . .

Yikes, those elitist effete eggheads.

"What's even funnier to me is that the more we talk about this subject, the more pathetic all of those guys seem: Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, Dean and now Obama."

I repeat, strange talk from a fussy little man.

"Hell, if all that was required was to be an honest-to-God war hero, George McGovern would have been President. I think McGovern was a good man and an honest politician. With some particularly fucked up ideas about governing that seem to get worse with his advancing age."

Can you say Ronnie Reagan? Here's a guy so addled that he actually believed he was in the war -- liberating death camps and stuff. And his bad governing policies were already fucked up -- advancing age just accelerated things. But I digress.

"And of course if war heroes beat draft-dodgers in every election, Bob Dole would have prevented a second Clinton term.

Anyway, I come back to policy. And yeah, I think Obama's pretty much of a policy-pussy."

Whatever, and your Bush-hating-blarney is a little stale already. I don't discriminate, I don't hate -- it's an automatic reflex . . .

"I'm speechless. Your parody is brilliant."

Actually, poor old anonymoose still fondles his shriveled nutsack every night amongst kissing his personally autographed framed Annie 'The Stick' Coulter (in black leather vest & Maybelline eye make-up) photo, listening to reruns of "Pearls Of Wisdom" as spake by Rush Limbaugh, reheating his Kraft Dinner and driving by Salon.com to fire off a few witty bon-mots . . .

Shooter pens: "I said "the Clinton era taught us that "character" counts for a lot".

But is we learning?? If character means a lot, why the bejesus, seven and counting years later do we have this?? Is Shooter making a comment saying something about America's character, or rather, lack of it?? We'd prefer our leader to be a vindictive two-bit punk/frat boy than a lecher? A tongue-tied tyrant? We're led by a guy that doesn't believe in evolution. Who actually believes they'd let folks like him into heaven? A man who hosts a Nuremberg-style birthday party for another guy who would happily return Earth back to the dark ages (and believe you me, George wasn't the brightest boy at that birthday party either). And we worry about haircuts, whether or not the folks who live in the belly of our beast are bible-beating bigoted blunderbuss-bearing bitter SOBs, or whether Obama can bowl. Bowling, fer criminey sakes. Where are Fred & Barney when you need them. Heck, if Hillary were more like Wilma or Betty, we'd be in great shape. Yubba-dubba do. Are we really that freekin' silly? The world, if you'd peek from underneath the covers where you cower, really is laughing behind our back. Character indeed, Shooter. Show us some . . .

goats bleat. Real men don't.

Bah. You just can't seem to stop it. As much as I dislike the Clintons (either of 'em), at least you have got to give 'em credit. Both can think standing on their feet. Both may lie, but not with incredible adeptness and brazeness of the current lizard-brain-in-residcence. And, yes, the Clinton morality may be questionable, but to give out the impression that they have less character than the criminals in the current maladministration?? The BIG lie shooter, the BIG lie. Catapult the propaganda long enuff and people even dumber than yourself may actually come to believe it. But please, please, for the sake of your own pitiful soul, do not ever, repeat, ever put the words 'character' and 'Bush' in the same sentence UNLESS you are talking about the lowest, twisted form of that said character. And yes, as has been repeated on this board, ad nauseum, it really is silly to keep on pissing into the wind -- unless you really do enjoy the stench and the sensation . . .