[Urbane Guerrilla]

Bruce, I'd appreciate your not talking like a full-on fool. Republicans, quotha!

And I have fifteen years of disgust and disappointment with the Democrats to back my opinion up. When was the last time a Democrat was selling something I wanted to buy -- enough that I bought it? I've remarked on how long it's been, before.

At the moment, I hear one Democratic Congressman with any sense, and that's Senator Lieberman. He is wise enough not to wish for substitutes for victory. The rest of the bunch -- ashes. Dust.

The Republicans, at least, consistently believe in the value of an assertive foreign policy. Having seen mush from the wimp Carter, and the actions of Clinton who as Presidential timber goes was balsa wood, I reckon the Republican paradigm is not only less trouble but actually less dangerous. But Republican notions of domestic policy and mine don't mesh as much, save that more of them are pro-gun, which indicates they really mean it when they say they're antigenocide and anticrime. The big problem I have with the national Republican leadership is they do so little to shrink Federal bureaucracy and officious overregulation -- or the Federal deficit, which is a continuous debaser of the currency through being a driver of inflation. This is why I'm a Libertarian rather than a Republican. The smaller the public sector, the less parasitic drag there is on the economy.

The Republicans, just like me, like kicking sundry dictators and oppressor states right in the chops. Can't imagine why you won't stand up and cheer that, at least... actually, I can imagine, but the imaginings DON'T do you the least credit, Bruce. They would cast you too far into the tw camp -- and you don't like that anti-American son of a bitch either.