Reply #61: Thanks for the history. As a newbie, I'd never heard it before.

[tclambert]

My son told me about Top Ten Conservative Idiots. I read it and laughed for years before finally joining up this election cycle. I have always been a swing voter. Yes, I voted Republican a few times (for John McCain in 2000). But the last few years, perhaps eight, the world has been forcing me to choose sides. For a long time, I even resisted calling Bush the worst president ever. Then he added a Hoover-like financial disaster to his bad fiscal policy and disastrous war. Meanwhile, Republicans were insisting he was "smart" and "honest" and a "good leader."

In 2004 I thought for sure the country would wake up and throw the bum out. And a day after the election, Republicans and religious zealots were gloating. I was disgusted.

Tomorrow I get my hope back. I have been waiting a long time for a great president. Kennedy was the last one. The greatness of America has slowly eroded since his murder. So many lost opportunities. And the major parties insisted on playing stupid partisan games.

I don't know if this website helped make tomorrow happen, but it made me feel better when the world tasted bitter.