There are two Americas - and Kevin's in the other one.

You just don't get it - the Senator's appeal is to extraoridnary voters. Its a class thang.

Peasants.

As an ordinary voter the choice seems simple to me. I've seen George Bush kicked around in the press for 3 years (if you remember 2000, 2002, 2003...). He's NEVER come back at anyone and cried, whined or held a midnight drunken press conference to refute any of it. George Bush likes people - he is an actual person. George Bush tells it like it is - and sometimes has trouble speaking - just like me. George Bush means what he says - but can be persuaded to change his mind if there are good reasons. George Bush can cry - which is a sign of compassion, not weakness. George Bush has served 3 years in the war on terror - how many times has Kerry visited our troops in Afghanistan or Iraq? It's a simple choice for ordinary voters like me. Who will cowtow to France and Germany and who will take care of US and do it without our allies approval (which will never come)? Three words (this is different than Kerry's infamous 5 words which were six.) Three words. George is right.

This shows the facade of the left and big media. That they think the people of middle America are dumb and need them to think for us. They are mad as hell that the internet, radio, and Fox News has stopped their ability to filter news for their ideology. They also show the fatal flaw of the left. After a span where Russia was hit several times by terrorists including Arab terrorists even though they are not with us in Iraq or Afgahnistan, they fail to see it is all the same war. It is militant Islam against western civilization. I think it can be best put by saying I would rather be narrow minded and alive and free than be enlightend and a slave or dead.

"A number of swing voters will care, and 18-29 year olds definitely should care since they're the ones who will be slaughtered. The trick is getting them to care enough to come to the polls.

I guess this comment explains why the selective service legislation keeps popping up on various websites without naming the actual idiots who proposed it. And those same places don't mention the other bill proposed to eliminate the Selective Service.

What the war on terror is all about, what the invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq is all about, what the patriot act is all about, is to buy time. To try to prevent some terrible thing happening while we wait for freedom to do its work, until the people who are oppressed and downtrodden rise up and demand their freedom.
Bush understands this. Kerry did understand, before it became too nuanced,Kerry saw the wisdom, before he didn't and on and on!

" 'Ordinary voters', ugh, they, like, ride the subway, dont't they? Do they even KNOW how to make a Cosmopolitan? I bet they don't even believe that AIDS will kill us all unless they use condoms for the rest of their lives. How provincial."

Maybe it's just me, but it seems "ordinary voters" can figure stuff out just fine, thank you. It seems Kevin is afraid they won't be able to understand the "nuances" of Real Big Important Stuff, and won't appreciate the agony that a Real Big Important Thinker goes through in tryng to figure out what he should think in order to get the most votes.

It must be a terrible strain to profess yourself "for the little guy" when you have nothing but contempt for him.

I must be an idiot. Explain to me how I am supposed to feel as I watch CNN coverage of the funerals of Beslan. How I should blame Putin. Or Bush. Or how I should be sensitive and have sympathy and understanding for the poor Chechens.
What I do feel is anger. Deep, hard anger. More even than on 9-11.
There is only ONE thing that holds me back from advocating massive uprising of all 'infidels' against all Muslims, demanding they renounce such behavior, immediately and unequivocally, or die - it is that I think that global confrontation is precisely the goal of the Beslan crime. But I am awfully close to not caring, and saying 'kill them all and let God sort them out.' I cannot conceive what is holding the Ossetian Russian fathers of these murdered children back. Shock? 'Castration' by 'modern' thinking? Can't be fear - after that, what is left to fear?
How did I come to be the last angry man in the world?

kill them all...and God will know his own. We fight in Iraq, because if we don't we will fight in Chicago. If, or when, depending on how pessimistic you are, will the elitist kevin's look to mercinaries to keep them safe. Glenmore, you are not the last angry man left. My wife is afraid I will re-enlist, but while the spirit is willing the flesh is getting old. What will it take for these people to wake-up. IF 9/11 did not do it and Beslan does not move them, what on earth could possibly get their attention. Kevin sounds like Henry Ford. Ford believed that Europe would be better under Hitler and sought appeasement prior to WWII, he may have even stalled the planat construction intended to build bombers (B-24s I believe). Maybe lefties like kevin think a burka is sexy and women ARE property.

Republicans talked the same "stupid voter" talk when they were losing big.

Bush in a landslide.

This is how condesending the left is. There's us ordinary folks who need to have things e-x-p-l-a-i-n-e-d to us, and then there are those progressive extrodinary people that need to do the 'splainin sos we gets it.

What will you get more attention from your state senator or sheetrock? consiter that the sheetrock dose respond at times with crumbling bits while the senator just sits there doing nothing