I'd go along woth your last paragraph gladly, Art, if it wasn't for the fact that the Repubs 'Wave the Bloody Shirt', bullshit about Dems. Viet Nam era service records or lack thereof, and piss and moan about the Dem's "patriotism" at every opportunity.

Harry Truman was right: after cranking up the temperature for decades, if the Repub's can't stand the heat, they should just get the hell out of the kitchen.