As a life-long conservative Republican who spent 10 years (my early 20s and early 30s) a non-judging social liberal, environmentalist, church-hating jerk, I will indulge myself by adding to the thread:
Readers of Huff Po/Plame/and Wilson shouldn’t brag they possess the ultimate knowledge of anything. She is college-educated? What kind of college? Those reference sources MUST be an inside joke. And she wrote it like it was a good thing.
I pray every day for Hillary to keep this thing going. Man! she is tough and fiesty. I have grown to admire her and would trust her far and away over that wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing, Obama. She will keep hammering the Jihadists just to prove her manhood and seems genuinely to love our America. I know who and what she is.
I will, however, vote McCain in Nov., because of the war on terror and the knowledge his SCOTUS judge nominees will at least be center or right-of-center. She has been so viciously maligned and mistreated by the mainstream media (payback for her past arrogance and for standing by Bill and his faux pas, perhaps?) it’s breathtaking. The holier-than-thou juvenile progressives who worship Lord Obama look down on her with palpable revulsion–she may as well be Archie Bunker or Edith, or George Bush!
Though not brilliant, she is a much more substantial person than Obama. She has endured well–flourished even in this campaign. To me, she seems to have actually grown into a mature adult over this process. As political broads go, she doesn’t grate on me nearly as much as Pelosi or that other old lady running the Senate (Ms. Reid). I’m not the only rabid GOP’er who feels this way, either. She hasn’t played the best game, but once the press decides to destroy you, the only thing you can do is put your game face on (as she, Bill, George, George, Reagan, et al, had to do) keep your head and barrel forward. Surely she has done that.
JJ–as a conservative woman, I dated my last liberal man 8 years ago at the age of 41 and never looked back. Life is too short to argue over such fundamental differences. Find a woman who allows you your thoughts, values YOUR values, and can talk with you about life-and-death matters with consideration and understanding of your beliefs. Run, run for your life now! It’s not likely to get any better. After the Bork hearings and with all the memorable cultural, political, religious, and meteorological events that have occurred since, we are forever a divided nation. Make war, not love with those who think you are wrong in not coming to the same conclusions in life and assuming the same values as they.
Oh, BTW, I am one of those who still love and admire President Bush (both, actually). I’ve spent every year from 1979 til now defending Reagan and I’ll spend the next 29 years defending Bush, too. Yeah, yeah, I am loyal Republican, but I am also I’m cynical realist possessing a sense of fairness AND optimism. I do my own research and analysis. Most importantly, I compare and contrast WHAT IS to WHAT IF and from where I sit, the alternatives were and are much worse and hideously dishonorable. Remembering the constant flood of vicious, irrational lies from the demented, power-hungry liberals in office, among the masses, and in the press says it all. I’ll keep fighting. I, too can take it down to the finish–yes, just like Hillary! Sans Chairman Mao pantsuits or philosophy, of course.
