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I agree there are many issues Republicans could use against Democrats in the 2008 elections. However, where do we find the bare-knuckled politicians willing to address these issues?

For many years, the Republicans have been more than willing to 'go along to get along.' I don't see any signs of the go-for-the-throat mental toughness necessary to counter the 'We are all victims here' mantra of the Democratic Party.

Face it, Republicans had six years of the Bush presidency to make changes in the country, and they behaved like a bunch of spendthrift drunken sailors. Now, they all stand around and wring their hands. The American people are not just fed up with the current Democratic majority in Congress.

Voters are fed up with the whole lot of them. Border Security, Social Security, Tax Reform and Tort Reform were all regarded as 'too tough for right now'. Kick the can down the road, and hope the voters don't notice. The majority of Democrats and Republicans alike are lily-livered, spineless, incompetent, greedy, narcissistic blowhards. Guess what, the voters are starting to notice!

p>I suppose next you are going to ask me how I really feel about Congress. br> -- R. Goodson br> Vero Beach, Florida /p>

It seems to me that Mr. Hogberg is offering a variation of what I have believed and attempted to articulate for some time now. The Democrat party, their elected representatives at all levels, and their activists, both within and without the main stream media have shown themselves absolutely determined to overplay their hands, and not by just a little bit, but by a whole bunch. I have, on more than one occasion opined that the Democrats are the best things that the GOP has going for them electorally. The Democrats seem determined to keep pushing to find the absolute leftward limit of the American public's tolerance, and then exceed it, on a consistent basis.

I can remember when the prominent media personalities could come close to making you think that they were reporting honestly. I can remember when the left wing, tin foil hat wearing Dem activists seemed to be sitting off in a corner by themselves, while the vast majority of the Democrats pursued a more mature, if decidedly liberal, domestic and foreign policy. I remember when the Dem politicians pretty much only pandered to the AFL-CIO and it's parts, and the NAACP, and the NAACP was an effective, if a bit pushy, organization concerned with the total integration of the black Americans into the common American society.

Now the whole Democratic party, with all it's active politicians and consultants, are bought and paid for by George Soros and about a dozen other complete Socialists, and the their fealty is policed by the Daily KOS of Marcos Moulitis and a few other leftist wizards.

p>I keep thinking that any day now the vast majority of the American public is going to wake up and smell the coffee, that they will see the Socialist elite and their running dogs in the Dem party and the media as they are and realize that the Emperor has no clothes. I find it incredible that the Democrats can actually get elected to anything. br> -- Ken Shreve

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