you fascists make me sick! you reugs are nazis with your nationalistic miltitaristic rallys like numemberg and howy ou crush dissent of your far right agenda. i hope kerry wins and yuo far right 'warbloogers' are locked up for slander!

that first comment would be funny if it weren't so nasty. So much for the first amendment rights of anyone who is a republican. Apparently, the writer doesn't remember the troubles sedition laws caused our second president, John Adams.

I will also be glad to see the end of this campaign in Nov. The only problem is that we know that the 2008 campaign will start on the day after the election no matter who wins. On some tv shows, it has already begun.

It's interesting to me to see how the Democrat rationalizations of beyond-the-pale domestic political behavior (baseless slander, comparisons of those who disagree with them to mass murderers (but not, curiously, Communist mass murderers, whom they still seem to support), outright lying about what their opponents have done and said even at risk to national security) lines up with the rationalizations of beyond-the-pale terrorist attacks like Beslan from "moderate" imams.

I really don't understand this kind of reflexive partisan defense: calling out your loonies makes good political sense (defusing your opponents' attacks on things you really can't defend anyway) as well as being the morally right approach. Unless, of course, people like Matt actually agree with such destructive campaign tactics.

Reugs, Repugs, Rethugs. Those on the left typically feel the need to resort to name-calling especially since all those of us on the right need to do is identify them as "liberals" and they scurry for cover. They hate that their own label has become an object of scorn, and so they resort to such silly ad hominems in a pathetic attempt to even the score. But that will never happen as it wasn't conservatives who made the appellation "liberal" an object of derision, it was the leftists themselves.