Dear Alex,

Your article was so onpoint and very very true. Unfortunately, I know for a fact that most republicans would not even know who you are talking about. They don't read about their candidates and they don't care. They love Palin because she is sarcastic and makes fun of people. That is part of a culture that makes themselves feel good by putting other people down.

They do not realize that neither George Bush or McCain would even consider being nice to them in real life. They are being used and it makes people who have nothing feel important to be told that very very elitist Republicans care about them. I know NO Republicans who know the truth about what kind of a man John McCain is. That he dumped his wife for a wealthy beautiful blond because he felt like it.They don't know that Giuliani did the same thing or that he is the one you are talking about who dresses in drag for a parade. His sneer puts him right with them.

I hope John McCain remembers how many government planes he has crashed and how much they cost. He obviously didn't care. My husband was an Air Force pilot, I know that 5 planes means you don't fly very well but had the pull to graduate from pilot training. If people would only read. Sad, sad world.

Really, reviewing what has come out and about Palin, either she IS a fan of Desparate Housewife show or certainly more aptly to have a counterpart of her own in a REALITY typ show . Even the story line of perhaps "son" infant son actually being her daughters is a DH storyline . Referenes to what "good" Cindy has performed along the way in her life with her charitibles, am one of those that figures IF had such great wealth and WAS AWARE of GREAT NEEDS in so many areas , there is no way COULD be so glaringly CONSUMPTUOUS and spend those $$$ on the glitzy frills to flaunt about when KNOW others are in such critical states of needs. (am one of those that has always had a problem with chruches and their golden altars in those magnificent cathedrals that are , we are told, to serve the needs of the people and of course, honor God who thought rather admonished that there were to be no idlotery/idol worship etc but obviously ignorred and excused evidently due to human nature just being their usual innane human selves or some such/etc....) Not sure how this all will play out, been shown our citizenry has a tendency to NOT pay full attention when getting skimmed, scammed or shammed and this GOP POP TART is getting center staged without proper scrutiny , sold as something she is NOT but may be good enough to pull off and all will just figure that there MUST be handlers we DO not see that will actually run things as she does the public schickt, quite similar to George W. who did not have the true mettle for the position either but got sold and the nation got hooked, lined in and sunk. Palin may prove to be the anchor that causes us to sink, certainly will moor us in a precarious position if they win the titles and those reins of power.

All the commentary about the McCains' homes and her expensive clothes make me wonder if the same remarks would have been made about John and Jacqueline Kennedy in 1960.

Presidents such as FDR and JFK came from great wealth but were extremely sensitive to the needs of the common person.

What a distraction this is from what really matters, how either of these candidates is going to fix our badly broken economy

Xanthro

You posts only reflect your mistaken view on how they operate.

Ha! You're such a complete tool.

I've noticed you have the tendency to revert to name calling when you can't actually refute anything. It doesn't speak well about your abilities.

they are not quite as clumsy and easily refuted

Can't quite make up your mind about them?

Perhaps you should read it again, since your reply doesn't not make any sense. Maybe it would be clearer for you to read if I broke the sentence into two parts.

they are not quite as clumsy, and they are not quite as easily refuted

Awkward phrasing, but it may be clearer to you.

They're also very practiced and yet they frequently make accusations that are exactly that easily refuted.

No, they aren't. Here's what Republicans do very well. They set up two arguments, one easily seen and refuted, one underlying and more important, then let the Democrats attack the unimportant part leaving the core unscathed. It happens time and again.

Democrats do not ever even seem to notice the actual point until to late.

Example, swift boating of Kerry. The final goal was not to destroy his military record, it was to frame that record as just a part of Kerry's tendency to inflate his accomplishments in order to run for President. That everything Kerry ever did that was noble, was only so he could use it later in a Presidential run. Thus, it wasn't noble, but based on ulterior motives.

Democrats are really that devious.

However, they don't permit conversation on their shows and if they're caught out in a different forum, they just deny they said it, as though it isn't on tape.

Look, something we agree on.

I'm sure you'll go ahead voting for the Republican pukes, praying that one day one of them might pat you on the head and leave a quarter in your cup. You've bought into all their lies lock stock and barrel and if they have their way, all you'll be left with is the barrel.

I rarely vote Republican, and when I do, it's because I personally know the candidate, or the Democrat is truly unqualified for the office.

I do help anyone in office who asks, regardless of party.

I usually expose lies from either party, which doesn't always make me the most popular person at the dance.