Reply #76: Well that's not true at all. Not for me at least. You're getting me mixed

[grace0418]

up with someone on FR. I do not, nor have I ever, automatically believed evil about people who have different opinions than me, nor do I automatically consider them my enemies. That would make me just as bad as the Fred Phelps and Rush Limbaughs and Bill O'Reillys of the world. There are decent Republicans out there. Those who actually believe in small government and fiscal responsibility. Many of them have left or have doubts about their party right now, but they do exist.

I knew not to trust BushCo because they've proven themselves untrustworthy again and again. Even before they foisted a blurry photo on Congress and told them they must believe it was a photo of WMDs. And yes, it has gotten to the point that, with BushCo, I wonder what nefarious plot is behind every word that issues from their lips. But they earned that mistrust. And John Kerry, being a Democrat and a "dreaded" liberal (which I don't think he really is but that's the label he got), should also have had ample reason to mistrust BushCo. Even if it was just the smallest shadow of doubt, when someone is voting to put thousands and thousands of lives and billions of dollars on the line, that shadow of a doubt should be enough to make you pause.

I'm sorry that some DUers were second guessing after Powell's speech. I don't know why they were. The difference is that DUers weren't in Congress, voting to give BushCo an insane amount of power. John Kerry was.