Guest,
I started to read the article, and stopped after several paragraphs when I got sick of the unsupported suppositions about what voters think, what "the media" thinks, and why things have happened the way they have. While I support the world view the article was putting forth, the writing and the logic were drivel.

As are yours. No, I am not stooping to ad hominem attack. I'm saying that your writing and your logic are drivel because you don't respond to a lot that gets said, you are consistently condescending and insulting, you seem to think that no one else has thought any of these issues through for themselves, and you post anonymously. I know everyone is sick of complaints about anonymous posters, but you really have to be put in the same camp as anonymous letters to the editor (which don't get printed) or crack phone callers (who get hung up on). Real people who want to be taken seriously in real discussions, at least by me, use their names. I don't really care what forum or medium is being used. I can learn as much listening to the neighbor's dog bark as I can arguing with someone who doesn't know how to debate and hasn't the face to sign their name.

The reason this thread has lasted so long is because you acted sort of like you might have something worthwhile to say, in spite of the basic problem of your posting anonymously. I think you've pretty much blown any good will you may have accrued, though, by being sort of a jerk.

I'm hanging up now.

John Peekstok