“Wouldn’t it have been easier just to pull down his pants and sit on some uncooked rice?”

You’ve got me ROTFLMAO. I’m going to use a variant

of this re JFK’s second purple heart on my favorite Dems.

No Clintonista. I voted for Carter because I thought he had character. I’ve since learned otherwise, but back then I had no good grasp of what “character” actually was.

The first time I watched Clinton when he first surfaced out of nowhere I was convinced the guy was a sleazebag. The Carter Lesson taught me, eventually, that I should not vote for a candidate with questionable character. What finally drove that home to me was another, non-national vote, for another man of little or no discernable character that I made because I fell into the “abortion trap”. Oddly enough, I am personally middling opposed to abortion but defer to the women on the issue, so I voted for the “pro-choice” candidate because the other one seemed too stridently “pro-life”. It turned out Candidate Pro-Choice was devoid of character while the other one went on to demonstrate he was a man of good character. Slowly, but surely, I realized that “a woman’s right to choose” is not in any jeopardy and it is a false issue (as is gun-control by and large) and that character is the primary issue.

This particular election has tossed a whole lot of my previous “convictions” up in the air. I swore to myself that I would never again be a “single issue” voter and would, instead, vote for the candidate I saw as having greater character. Now comes 2004 and I find that in this election the WoT is the single issue I will not ignore. Its not a serious challenge because I believe Bush has character and Kerry doesn’t.

I’m also faced with my long growing and increasing strong belief that the Democratic Party is corrupt to the core. I can never articulate this to people but, up until now, I have not been “Republican”, I’ve just long been “anti-Democrat”. The realizations that pushed me in that direction started to form back in HS but I never gave them enough thought (it had to do with unions being exempt from assault and property destruction laws – I witnessed it first hand, it bothered me, but it took me a long time to figure out what the heck I’d seen). There were many other realizations over time but thing really started to come together for me when I put my children into the public school system. Then I slowly but surely realized that resistance to the “social engineering” crap the Dems have so long pushed is not a matter of NIMBY or bigotry. Its a straightforward matter of “Screw you, Jack, you don’t get to run your stupid experiments on my kids. I have one shot at this parenthood thing and I ain’t handing it over to Moonbat Hackery.”

What I’ve witnessed from the Dems (and their PR arm, the MSM) over the past three years has convinced me to finally forego my false-flag Independent status and register as a Republican). The meltdown and corruption of the Dems is so complete, so deep, that I believe it demonstrates a fundamental character flaw in anyone who runs for election or actively supports the Dems. They’ve become so bad that I must take the other side even if it isn’t perfect.

What an odd world. Isn’t life grand!

Syl, you are killing meÖ.LOL

Thank you for your wonderfully insightful (as always) response.

I posted my explanations on the original thread:

http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2004/09/the_first_words.php

By Nov. 10 we’ll be sandtabling Iran and handicapping the election in Iraq. It ain’t even gonna slow down.

It’s the old “The Bible is the Holy Word of God.” “How do you know that?” “It says so in the Bible.”

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/50/a.php