oh, oneiroi, so true … so god-blessedly true …

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pc, i’m all for mint juleps … maybe after three or four of them, i’d be able to tolerate your pro-life arguments …

(again, A JOKE!)

i think i have the un-comedy flu … my jokes have been dying all day over here, too (my poor husband) … can you hear the crickets chirping?

That comment makes me sad.

And to keep it fair, the chicken liberal syndrom isn’t a liberal thing…i mean listen to the Obama attacks. Or gay marriage arguments.

there are many, many more decisions the court makes … for instance, regarding corporate/employer rights that might not have the in-your-face effect of an abortion-rights case, but that — over time and when added up — can amount to a similarly nefarious trampling on individual rights.

the canada thing is a little joke … perhaps too little … though, i would think progressive conservatives like you would be more than happy to show air-headed, emotional liberals (like me) the door.

And thanks PC for the half-compliment :). It may be a lack of perspective – America would survive – but with due respect, too, McCain would be ablet o do a lot that Bush only lusted after, and the thing that makes it different is, again, SURPRISE, the Supreme Court. Imagine Bush, but with a Court willing to rubber-stamp expansions of executive power & suppressions: gay rights is “stalled” without a listening SCOTUS (4/9 are openly hostile, and Kennedy won’t move farther than he already has); Roe is gone, and all legal scholars agree, if McCain wins; and I don’t trust McCain to keep his nose out of wars. It’s not spin to say that his temper is a little on the short side. Ick. It certainly wouldn’t be Sauron-with-a-Ring, but it’d be – at best – moving only SLIGHTLY backwards.

and didionville will be moving to canada. (europe, if the dollar strengthens, but don’t hold your breath for that with a mccain presidency.)

Seriously? I always wonder why liberals threaten that. I don’t actually know any that have done it, but i don’t really get the premise.

Ames, please don’t take this as condescending, but I think in this instance you’re letting your age show a bit. Or maybe it’s just a bit of the chicken little syndrome that liberals are prone to from time to time. But I have to ask, if none of those things you mentioned happened under Bush, who was far more passionate about opposing gay rights or ending abortion, and was supposedly controlled by the ruthless cabal of Cheney & Rumsfeld….what on earth makes you think it will come to pass under McCain?

I have to second John’s comments when he mentions a ‘lack of perspective’. Again, maybe it’s just your age, because we all know it’s not your intelligence. Far worse things have loomed on the horizon for America and we’ve weathered them all.

I respect your call for unity in the face of a republican machine that has always been at its best every four years, but you’re better than the predictions of doom if McCain is elected.