The American Spectator

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Eugene Methvin’s article made me see red; and his not so subtle allusion to Rush as a Taliban is just what conservatives have come to expect from our oh-so-superior moderate elites in the Republican Party. What’s the difference between a liberal and a moderate Republican? When a liberal proposes some vast program to change American society and gets only half of what he wants in a compromise the cause of liberalism advances. When a moderate Republican compromises (and still gives the liberal half of what he wants) we are told by the Republican elites that it is a great victory because the left only got half; in any event the cause of liberalism still advances. Come to think of it, that is exactly what we were told when the Senate Republicans rolled over on Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and that’s exactly what I expect to hear during a McCain presidency — liberal appointments are the best that we can hope to achieve.

p>This is not so much about McCain as it is about the Republican Party telling us to hold our noses yet again and vote for another moderate because “where else are you going to go?” Well it is not going to fly this time. We don’t have to go anywhere. I, for one, will go to the polls in November and vote for all other offices except the president. If enough likeminded people do the same the disparity in the numbers will be unmistakable, McCain will be defeated and the Party will get the message. We do not intend to be like Blacks in the Democratic Party, our vote taken for granted. Is it possible that Black Democrats will have a similar awakening should Obama not get the nomination. Wouldn’t that dual coincidence be something? br> — Terry Terrance br> Culpeper, Virginia /p> p> BETTER THAN REAGAN br> Re: Philip Klein’s Partying Like it’s 2004 : /p>

It is amazing to see members of the conservative media trying to saddle George W. Bush with the effects of their childlike behavior. When conservative pundits and the alternative media began their hysterical rant against Harriet Miers and DPW they were laying the foundation for today’s perceived “problems.” Then in an attempt to prove their “independence” they jumped on the liberal media bandwagon blaming President Bush for Louisiana Democrats inept handling of the post-Katrina flooding (that they failed then and now to actually investigate the facts damns them even further as liberal stooges). Things got even worse when invoking the name of “Open Borders” Ronald Reagan, who granted amnesty and citizenship to millions of illegal aliens, they scuttled the President’s comprehensive immigration reform without a plausible and fiscally sound alternative — deportation based on attacks leveled at the former GOP Congress would be a no go for fiscal conservatives worried about Federal spending.