[Cowperson]

Oh, I agree his speech was vetted somewhere in the misty regions up top. I'm not arguing that.

I'm just telling you the reaction from those who didn't vett it - the majority of people there - was they seemed fairly surprised he went as far as he did, at least judging by the accounts I saw. Was he really talking for the majority of the delegates there, the meat of the Republican party? It didn't seem to be the case.

That might go to the oft-repeated observation from critics that the Republicans want to be seen as a party of the moderate right but who actually have people running things on a platform that might not conform to that image.


As for the Democrats in the '60's, I hope you recognize exactly how well their tactics worked. Nixon won one of the biggest landslides ever, America eventually got out of Vietnam and realized what a mistake they made. The Democrats got what they so richly deserved, and here is hoping the past repeats itself without the need to spend 50,000 US lives and another 5 years getting out of the current mess.

You're assuming I was taking a point of view on the matter. I made an observation in the interests of fairness. And I hit a bullseye.

Is it any wonder that as you get older, you trust your politicians less?

Cowperson