Well, okay, John, I can see why you think that Mudcat is rude but, by in large, the progressives here are civil... Oh sure, they are passionate about what they believe and they will fight and fight... But rude??? Nah, not really... Umless, of course you consider calling Bush supporters "Bushites", whcih is nuthin' but a take off of the "Clintonites"... Is that rude??? I don't think so...

What Ann Coulter has said is downright rude... What Rush LImbaugh says purdy much on a daily bais is downright rude... And that Savage guy??? I heard ghim one night and thought it was a paradoy of "rude" righties before figuring out that he menat that stuff...

No, I disgree with you, John, and I'm sticking to my observation that the righties have become one bunch of very rude people...

But they own the public air waves purdy much lock, stock and barrel so I reckon those of us on the progressive side just better buckle up 'cause the righties are going to get a lot worse in the upcoming "class warfare" (revolution) that is about to unfold over the next couple of years and the middle class get fed up with the right's ***blow-hardness***, rudeness and plain ol' fashion greedy and crappy politics and policies of failure...

Okay, you might think that is rude... I don't... It's just reality...

Saying that John Edwards is "gay" is both homophobic and hatefull but also, unless you have evidence to the contrary, a lie... Buit it inflames the people who listen to her to hate even better... Then to suggest that she would be happy if John Edwards would be kiled by a terrorist shoulkd have had her booted off the air for life...

If I said that about George Bush the Secret Service would bust in my house tonight and either shoot me or arrest me and render me to a country where I would be tortured...

But it okay for Ann Coulter???

No, it isn't...

If a kid can be busted for a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" tee-shirt then a woman using the public air waves to spew hatred needs to get the same treatment...

This is hypocrisy of the highest order and it is why the right wing is slippin' down the slippery slope toward extinction... Moderate people ain't the rednecks that the right thinks they are...

Bobert