Did it ever occur to you that you are perhaps the last person on the planet to be lecturing others on being rude and offensive?

Even if it did, it's not true, and it's a very nasty little bit of invective. So much for your treating me with respect.

Your inability to see or admit this is simply childish

Another ad hominem?

Calling childish behavior childish may or may not be an ad hominem. If you're acting like a child and somebody says, "you're really being childish, you know," is that an ad hominem? Do you know what "ad hominem" means?

Tom Delay, Gingrich and other GOP leadership had just met with cLINTON 15 minutes before thought they had a budget deal. cLINTON then went before the press and betrayed them and had previously cleared it with the federal employees unions to have a shutdown. This can be confirmed by asking the above sources.

Embarassingly, I don't know who Tom Delay is. I wouldn't trust Gingrich to read a clock to me which was plainly visible to both of us. This sounds like a he said/she said problem. Don't see how we can resolve it, seeing as you don't trust my sources and I don't trust yours.

Most of the votes McCain got were in those states which had "open primaries" which allowed voters outside the party registration to vote in the GOP primaries (a stupid idea). Republicans by and large voted for Bush not McKeating.

I think it's a stupid idea -- nay, worse, it's thievery -- to have "republican" or "democrat" primaries that are paid for by a state's taxpayers. If the GOP truly wants to just poll its members to find out who to run for an office, let them do it on their own dime. Why should I pay for it? If, on the other hand, a state is holding a primary to winnow down a set of candidates for its final ballot, why should it take marching orders from the political parties?

As you probably know we have historically had an "open ballot" primary in Washington State, until the Big 3 political parties (GOP, Dems, and the Libertarians) took us (or somebody like us; I forget) to court. Now we must rewrite our way of doing primaries or face having a new method forced upon us by court order. The best suggestion I've heard so far is to have a totally nonpartisan ballot. Throw everybody on there and vote for your favorite. Top 2 winners run off in the final election. Perhaps this will start the process of undoing the stranglehold the GOP and Democrats have on our country? Nah. Special interest groups wouldn't stand for that.

it is apparent that your dislike for [Clinton] knows no bounds (and no rationality)

Considering the damage he did to this country (including the current China problem) may not be fully known for decades, should I be happy about that?

Must you be irrational whenever you're unhappy?

Shrimp, fettucine and wine awaits.

Subject/verb disagreement. Lose 10 points. Sounds nummy, though. :-)

Alex