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6.18.08 @ 12:01AM

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The only thing that is more interesting than the GOP party slow motion "train wreck" is watching the Democrats spinning themselves into the ground faster than a "viper-lawn-dart;" leaving only a smoking hole and some unidentifiable wreckage.

Either way, the "most qualified" candidates are not, or will not run for office, and those that have been running, are "ruled-out" by the MSM before the majority of us even had a chance to vote in the primaries.

This is NOT American Idol or Dancing with the Stars. But it is what the MSM wants.
-- S. in Severn

Robert Stacy McCain asserts that "Obama looks competitive in...Nevada".

It sure doesn't look that way to me. Last Saturday I took my son to hang out with our GOP friends from next-door Douglas County at their booth at Carson Valley Days. Nearby the Douglas County Democrats' booth was staffed most of the day by "women of a certain age," but amid all the literature and signs promoting their candidates, there was absolutely nothing of support for their presumptive presidential nominee.

Stick a casino buffet fork in him, he's done here.
-- Howard Hirsch
Chairman, Lyon County Republican Central Committee
Dayton, Nevada

The Democratic National Committee has faith that their (young) man from Illinois can take the White House without Florida, Ohio or even Pennsylvania? Blasphemy, you cry? Oh, ye of little faith. Havenʼt you heard Our (latest) Messiahʼs sermons? Have you not seen the crowds cheer? Have you not felt the electricity of this man?!? Obama will win come November without Pennsylvania. Without Ohio. Without Florida! You say impossible. But miracles happen. Just believe. Just believe.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

VIABLE ADOPTION
Re: W. James Antle III's Marital Discord:

Attacking gay marriage by attacking adoption -- are you completely nuts? Why is there an anti-adoption bias in conservative circles? Fear that it reduces the stigma of out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Eugenic fears? Racism?

Adoption is a profoundly conservative practice through which a baby or child is given a loving home and parents who raise him as their own, usually without government assistance.

In addition, of course, in order to be adopted, the baby has to live. For the "fetus" who is truly unwanted or whose biological parent(s) absolutely cannot care for her, there are only two options: death through abortion or life through adoption. You can't be wringing your hands over a biological mother placing her baby for adoption and pro-life at the same time.

For the child born overseas, there may be a third option: life in an orphanage, with many variations in quality. Although some older children might choose to stay in an orphanage, no one in their right mind would want a child to spend all their childhood in one and never experience what a family means.

The American system of adoption exemplifies all that is good and innocent about our country. In addition, the people who pioneered transracial adoption were conservative Christians, particularly Harry and Bertha Holt, who were called to adopt from Korea.

So, yeah, eat your own. Tell pregnant women that adoption is God-awful, tell the 100 million Americans touched by adoption that it's horrible, focus all your Pat Buchanan-like fears on someone's DNA and not knowing the Olde English/Chinese/Korean/Russian village their ancestors lived in since the BC's, and wonder why conservatives are losing.
-- Mary Wardrip

W. James Antle III replies:
I in no way attacked adoption. Adoptive parents do a very noble thing when they provide a home for a child. "God's work," is how one of the articles I approvingly linked described this practice. Choosing life over abortion by putting one's child up for adoption in unfortunate circumstances is a brave, often difficult, but unquestionably right thing to do. But adoption is a humane response to an already existing tragedy -- the loss of a parent, one way or another. No sane person would want to bring about that tragedy deliberately. Yet that is precisely what I was objecting to -- creating children who at least one natural parent must by design abandon to accommodate unions that cannot naturally produce children. Strangers selling lives to same-sex couples who will intentionally raise them without a mother or father.

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