[TheRealThing]

I believe the name calling and personal insults reflect the times in which we live. I mean, American citizens are out in the streets, burning business districts, committing acts of violence on voters they don't agree with, and disrupting political rallies and making threats of all kinds. Republicans always chose the high road in the past and for a while that actually worked, as in the days of Reagan for example. People still had respect for each other back then. Then the media went from laying suggestive inferences against Republicans in the nightly news, along with body language and a negative tone, which at the time I thought was inexcusable. But today, the outright lying about them and covering for Dems has literally given rise to the seeds of our own demise, IMHO. I don't need any help on this point because I watched it go down from the days of David Brinkley and Douglas Edwards to Walter Cronkite and onward.

One did not actually hear Democrats openly slamming Republicans until Nixon and the Watergate Scandal. Even then the things said would have passed for Sunday School fare as compared to the vitriol of this day. As I said, for the longest time Republicans refused to be a part of the fracas. But step by step the lies and the slander coming from the left got to be so overtaxing that it was obvious to all, public opinion of the right had been swayed so dramatically, that many Republicans began to realize not taking up for themselves was worse than the inevitable food fight we see today.

Some voters don't care if their side is right or not, all they know is they hate the other side. Still though, it is the Republicans who show the class, and it is the Dems who will say or do anything to win. Political debate is no different. I realize that I will never persuade a diehard Dem with my opinion. Nevertheless the motivation for speaking truth is not ill conceived, though it is often met with fierce resistance.

I like speaking the truth and to me, it is worth being called everything from a horse's rear, to a liar in order to do so. I'm not one who would want to see the forum shut down and I'll say this; even though there are in fact a lot of things going on just as reported by Dusty and nky, one can still read more truth on this site than can be had from viewing MSNBC, or CNN, and that includes the vast majority of the drivel offered these days by FOX NEWS.

But for one who dares to stand up for the values I know full well this nation is founded upon, he will find himself inevitably standing in the same shoes Republicans found themselves. At some point a well placed pie in the face of one's adversary is justifiable and frankly called for. I can take the names, the crocodile tears, and the faked self-righteous indignation by debate opponents.

One more thing. I believe there is a day of trouble coming, (evidenced by the Sabre rattling of North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China) when all the present day bickering over politically correct and ridiculous stuff like 58 gender classifications and spending millions of dollars on gender neutral public bathrooms and all the rest, will overshadow American hearts and minds with very a real threat. I have seen days once ruled by sanity, change to epic absurdity. The sted of my country is always in my prayers.