Mick, I honestly don't know what you are going on about. I simply am trying to make peace here, and to help cool down the rhetoric a bit before people start the cyber equivalent of WWIII here.

All I'm trying to say here is let's follow the example of DougR, and speak our minds forcefully and confidently, as Mark and he have done above. That can easily be done without making abhorrent statements about other peoples' political beliefs being the equivalent of aborting a fetus.

All I am doing is making a plea to keep it clean here, and for people to stop hitting below the belt, regardless of their political beliefs.

Now, I realize that if some of you feel justified in your venom spewing, you are going to do spew venom regardless of what any of the rest of us says about it.

But let's be clear: no one but you yourselves have the power to regulate your behavior. Your political opposition can't make you behave badly, only you can make yourself behave badly.

How you behave is your choice.