All one has to do to see how far the Republican party has moved to the extreme-right over the last 30 years is to read some recent citizen opinions from our local paper. These so-called typical conservatives are about as extreme right-wing as one could be on the political spectrum but relative to today's deminished and intellectually bankrupt Republican Party, they are in the mainstream. No one could imagine 30 years ago that a real conservative like Arlen Specter would become a Democrat because he wasn't far right enough for the party's mainstream voter but that is where the Republican Party finds its self today. They are just a minor regional Southern Party that stands for the most extreme right-wing positions that the rest of America can not embrace. They are comprised primarily of narrow-minded fundamentalist evangelical gay haters, abortion clinic bombers/doctor killers and NRA extremists who 30 years ago would be listed as anti-government, paramilitary (Timothy McVeigh type) militia nut cases. They say they are against government intervention in the personal lives of its citizens yet when in power they seek to impose their personal religion and morals on Terri Shiavo-like families all across America. They don't understand the distinction between having personal religious beliefs and forcing their own morality onto others through the law. Don't they understand that they need to stay out of other peoples personal lives? It's none of their business what medical decisions a woman or family and their doctor make. They think they are morally superior to all others and insist on impeaching a president for a private affair yet ignore leaders who lie routinely about starting wars, torture, spying on Americans, violation of the Constitution and bankrupting the Country needlessly while giving endless billions to bankers and more tax breaks to make the rich richer. That tells you a lot about their moral and ethical values. The reason their numbers are dwendling is because they find new reasons to exclude people from their party daily rather than reasons to embrace and encompass more diversity and difference of opinions. That type of attitude does not bode well for growing a party. It is a recipe for a dying and corrupt organization. It appears their prognosis for the future is very negative because they are too arrogant to acknowledge any faults. Maybe they should go back and reread the views and opinions of our Country's forefathers. Todays Republicans are so far off what Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson believed this country stood for they would accuse our Country's founders of being socialist radicalss. When your party politcal leaders are shallow and intellectual light-weights such as "w", Rove, Cheney, Palin and blow-hard talk show hosts like Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc. what do you expect the followers to consist of? Take a look at who makes up the neo-conservative Republican Party locally by reading their letters to the editor and you have your answer. That's how uneducated Southern states like Kentucky end up with pathetic leaders like Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning. The Democrat Party is the moderate party in America today. They represent all America, not just a southern region of bitter whites clinging to their guns and outmoded views of prejudiced fundamentalist religion. It's obvious the right-wing bitter clingers in Pennsylvania didn't weild the kind of influence and votes they thought they did or else they would still have a Republican Senator named Specter. I think many stubborn like minded Southern bitter-clingers have the same lesson to learn in the coming years. They are just too arrogant to admit they don't represent the typical moderate cross-section of America that rejected the pathetic Bush/Cheney politcies and voted for Obama. They will learn though because the voting process is teaching them a hard lesson. The question is, "will they listen?" They will have to "CHANGE" or die. It's as simple as that. And to top it all off, Al Franken will have the last laugh when Sen. Coleman concedes to him later on the Minnesota election results. Poetic justice don't ya think? Republicans keep reeping what they sow. Biblical analogies always seem to fit perfectly when dealing with Republicans now don't they? What's a bitter right-winger to do these days? Ask Karl Rove or Rush. They always have the answer. They believe the answer is to purge the Republican Party of all moderates and leave only the most radical right-winger kool-aide drinkers. Yeah, that's the answer. Keep getting smaller in number, more idealistically pure and politically irrelavent. Yeah, keep following that road down to oblivion. That will solve all their problems. Ha! Give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves every time. I love it! This couldn't happen to a better group of political clowns.

The shame Bush and Cheney brought to America in their inhuman embrace of torture is disgusting. I don’t expect right-wingers to show any morality or ethical judgment on topics like this. They have lied and repeat today the lies they started in the bush years. How many times have I heard Rush, Cheney and the rest of the right-wing Fox low-brows minimize the effect of torture techniques and claim that water boarding is not torture? “w” even pointed his finger, looked straight in the camera and lied by saying, “I did not torture those trrrrrists” and “America does not torture” as well as the countless other lies he repeated time and time again while in office. The memos just released to the public prove that “w” Cheney and their legal yes men violated the sixth amendment to the Constitution, treaties, military codes of conduct and the Geneva Convention. America has regarded torture as unconstitutional and illegal since 1789. That is an irrefutable fact and up until Bush that was one thing that set America apart from other nations.

These bush sycophants always claim that terrorists don’t deserve anything other than torture and that it is the only way to get good information from them. That again is fallacious and is the only excuse they can give for their crimes. Yes, they are crimes and those politicians, lawyers and judges in the bush administration that gave the orders and created the justifications for it are no better than the common criminals we see in County jail today. Actually, the experts in intelligence and getting information from prisoners know that torture is the least helpful way to obtain accurate and verifiable intelligence. Many of these professionals know that torture does not work but it makes people like Cheney and other hypocrite macho frauds feel like it does. It’s the same kind of mentality that stresses brute violence over wisdom and honor. You see it every day in inter-city gangs, NRA guns fanatics and paramilitary (Timothy McVeigh- like) violent anti-government groups.

One terrorist prisoner who was interrogated by professional CIA experts gave all the information he had but Cheney, Rumsfeld and the like wanted him water boarded 83 times and tortured anyway. He gave up much more information but it was all false. You see torture does not yield good intelligence. The tortured will say anything just to stop the torture. It is not effective and doesn’t provide accurate information. That is why experts refuse to endorse torture. What you see on TV’s 24 show is just fiction.

I for one would be happy to water board anyone that thinks it is not torture. Come on Rush, Hannity, Cheney. You clowns were never in the military and don’t know the first thing about these issues. Let me teach you something. I have witnessed one who claimed that he could take 15 seconds of water boarding and he didn’t last 5 seconds. He was one of those blowhards that said anyone could take it for 15 seconds but he doesn’t think so anymore. The military knows the truth and that is why they refused to do it. Bush had his legal yes men twist and distort the law into lies in order to force the CIA to do it. They should be tried for these crimes the same as Nazi war criminals were tried for much less torture crimes. What I have described here is called “Treason.”

The final reason for America not to torture is because when we torture prisoners it gives our enemies the justification to torture American captives. When you stoop to the level of the uncivilized you are subject to the same actions directed back at you. America stood on the moral high ground for over 213 years until Bush and Cheney came to DC. Shame on them and shame on America for ignoring their crimes. You can’t sweep these crimes under the rug.

These guys need to be prosecuted to show America does not endorse these criminal actions.
Now I know Obama will not take any serious action against Bush/Cheney right now because he doesn’t want to deal with all the sensation it would cause within republican circles and across America but some fair and balanced independent objective prosecutor (like Ken Starr maybe) should start actions against these treasonous criminals that just happen to be x-politicians. I know treason is not a big deal to Fox right-wingers the way a sexual affair was but something must be done in order to honor the rule of law once again in this country. If not, then let all the petty criminals out of jail today.


For anyone of my right-wing friends who still doesn’t believe water boarding is torture I will be more than happy to demonstrate on you.