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8.10.06 @ 12:01AM

FALLEN INTO THE CHASM
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Connecticut's Shame:

Thank you for the article "Connecticut's Shame." I feel awful about what is happening in our country and grieve for our future. I don't understand it and I am looking for understanding. I must stand with President Bush and Israel. I am 55 and I remember learning about the death camps as a youth. I asked my mother why they didn't do anything to save the Jews, why the world -- why SHE -- allowed it happen. I remember saying I would never allow such a thing to happen in my lifetime. The Democrats are now on the other side. They are siding with the enemy and they don't see the simple truth that we are entering WWIII. Their hatred of Republicans, conservatives, and the Jews is self-destructive and will destroy our country and world, I fear! I fear, also, that our union is threatened. Thanks again for the article.
-- Kathleen Mary Hensley
Federal Way, Washington

CT is enduring anxiety not shame. The state has no shame. There have always been and always will be anti-Semites. Some people openly express this and other anti bias. I do not believe the few have-no-lifers represent the people of CT in general.

My perception is the people of CT are suffering from acute anxiety rooted in their economic demise. New England is unmistakably loosing good high paying jobs and barely replacing them with retail or service jobs that pay a lot less. Everything else is going up including taxes.

Whose fault is this economic decline? The answer from the Democrats and some Republicans is our current President and thanks to the propaganda that passes as news, the Republican Congress as well. It's as if he has some magic power to lower the cost of all goods.

In CT you cannot go after the President, so the next in line is Joe Lieberman. But the Senator's troubles started with the 2000 (it was disgusting to some when he ran for two jobs) ticket and continued in 2004. He missed a lot of votes and seemed disconnected from his constituents. Add to this his unattractive personality and it was a recipe for disaster.

Do not look to CT for any lessons, predictions, or trends. This is the state where just about all the Democrats who ran after the state income tax was instituted got re-elected after a season of demonstrations and spitting at then Governor Weicker.

The Senator got the message and got a public spanking. But come November he will win as the independent because the voters there know there really is no other choice. I suspect that if he announced this was it for him after the primary should he have lost then he would have won. Voting against him in the primary was a free-bee.
-- Diamon Sforza

I think what is happening is great. Jews joining the Republicans is really great. They are just a little slower than the blue-collar Reagan Democrats, but welcome aboard. The Dems have been hijacked by far out lefties -- let them shrink into oblivion. When we bust up the teachers union I will pop champagne corks. Happy days are really here again.
-- Annette Cwik

Mr. Lord is very much on the money in his short discussion of today vs. yesterday as regards "hands across the chasm." As a denizen of Washington, D.C. in years gone by, I can attest that Harry Truman absolutely hated and detested Republicans, but he knew how to work with them in governance, and knew why that was necessary. Old Harry wasn't all bad. He loved his wife and daughter and despised the press of the day.

May I be so bold as to proffer an opinion of the primary electoral results of Aug. 8th? In Georgia, we saw that southern Democrats have had quite enough of a certified extreme Leftist wing nut, so Ms. McKinney will be headed out of Congress. In Michigan, a proponent of border control and homeland security with a background as a law enforcement officer won the GOP nomination for Senator from that state. Also in the GOP primary in Michigan, an incumbent liberal RINO was defeated by a significantly more conservative-type Republican, despite the RINO being supported by the national GOP establishment, including Jorge Boosh.

Now juxtapose those results with the results in deep blue, hard left, Connecticut. The ONLY thing Lieberman has ever done wrong was to support the fight against radical Islam. This single issue has brought out such vitriol that even some Democrat activists like Lanny Davis are forced to admit that Dems can be nasty and self-destructive.

I would propose that what we are seeing is that the New England/West Coast, anti-war, anti-America, globalist, one-worlders are further and further distancing themselves from the rest of the American populace in general and electorate in particular. More and more they are taking off their masks and revealing their true selves. I would submit that it is increasingly probable that they will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory come this November. I expect that the George Soros/Daily KOS/MoveOn wing of the Democrat party will flood Connecticut with dollars to defeat Lieberman again in November. Howie Dean and the DNC will now spend money to defeat one of their own incumbents in the Northeast (their stronghold), thus draining resources from the promising contests in the Heartland, like Ohio or Michigan.

The Congressional Republicans, the Jorge Boosh administration, and the RNC have tried their best to position the party to lose the House or Senate or both this November. To me, it looks increasingly like the Democrats will refuse to accept the victory, thus returning the country to the status quo ante for the next two years.
-- Ken Shreve

What is wrong with the people Connecticut, aside from its proximity to Massachusetts, is that, up there, knee deep in globally warmed snow and perilously near French Colonial Canada, the enforcers of liberal orthodoxy now sneer at Jefferson's dream while inculcating Marx.

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