"as far as I'm concerned, that puts you miles above most of the people we elect to political office. "

I will take this as a compliment, though it could be damming with faint praise...


I have never understood how the neocons could possibly be so incompetent, according to most of those posting here, yet so effective.

I have never been a neocon- while I do believe (IMO) that the US was justified in going into Iraq ( actually, I think we waited too long), there are a lot of neocon points I do not agree with. The problem is that here, if I support Bush in Iraq, it is presumed I agree about gay marriage, abortion, et al- which is not true. I just feel the damage that the Bush administration might do on the other topics is offset by the ( IMO) required defense of my country. I would be much happier if Elizabeth Dole were president- but in the present choice, I would rather have a paranoid person who everyone thinks will fly off the handle than one who wants to get a concensus of the whole world before taking required steps to "provide for the common defence" , the primary function of government.