Reply #29: Thanks for clarifying, Kay1864. And, yes, I REALLY think a "state official

[Peace Patriot]

commenting to CNN, and who might be under the microscope as much as Katherine Harris in 2000" would use the phrase "replace him with one of our own as soon as possible." I have heard so many outrageous and unbelievable things out of Republicans' mouths these last six years that nothing would surprise me.

I have heard them justify torture. I have seen them vote for torture and for suspension of habeas corpus (one of the main items at issue in the American Revolution). I have seen them call Democrats racists for opposing Condi Rice as Sec of State. I have seen them squish tens of the thousands of black voters, on the one hand, and assert Republican gains among black voters, on the other. I have seen them describe slaughtering a hundred thousand innocent people as bringing them liberty. I have seen them call Max Cleland a friend of Osama bin Laden. I have seen them call electronic voting owned and controlled by Bushite corporations the "Help America Vote Act." I have seen them paint the white roses red, like the Red Queen in "Alice in Wonderland." I have seen them say "War = peace," as in Orwell's "1984." I have seen Donald Rumsfeld state that "Freedom = the freedom to loot." I have heard falseness, lies, deceptions, distortions and hypocrisies such as I have never heard in my lifetime, and I lived through the Vietnam War. I have seen such egregious assertions of unaccountable power--from presidential "signing statements," to Halliburton's no-bid contracts, to the non-budgeted military budget, to indefinite detention, to pervasive domestic spying, as to boggle the mind. And I have seen such naked assertions of political fascism--by Jeb Bush, and George, by Dick Cheney, by Tom Delay, by Kenneth Blackwell, by Katherine Harris, by Dennis Hastert, by Alberto Gonzales, by John Ashcroft, by Donald Rumsfeld, by Karl Rove, and others, and by a gang of their rotweillers in the corporate news monopolies--as to make my country unrecognizable.

Is it any surprise that I and others expect the worst?