With this kind of frustration and resentment toward an incumbent Republican Congressman maybe there's hope of us (the little people) grassroot type conservatives taking the party back.

I would be ready to play in that environment.

Vote Conservative (except Westmoreland)

The true beliefs and values of the party are finally showing.

Do you really believe that the Republican party is the party of gay peodphiles? I think that's the Democratic party that has stood up and fought for those casuses over the years. Come to think of it Foley might fit in real good on your side. What committee or staff could you see Barney Fag and Foley sitting on?

WEAR IT!!!!!!! Sorry but actions speak more loudly than words. Me thinks the republican party doth protests too much. They obviously love gays and pedophiles or this would not be harbored and protected, nor would it be tolerated.

Many people appear to have been aware of these complaints, and have done nothing to put a stop to it.

The Republican Party is the party of the gays. Gosh...I guess that's why they get so much support from them.

Nope Sky...That shoe don't fit.

The myth is that most gays are happy, funny guys, like we see on television.

My experience shows them as aggressive, mean-spirited people. That's just my experience.

And most I met are dedicated Republicans.

Most that I know live in VERY nice homes In-town in Atlanta. Are good folks, and are not anything like you say.

It's not for me, but for that they are glad. I'm not their type either.

Most of the gay people that I know have better houses than mine, cook better than I do and are some of the most giving people that I’ve ever met.

BTW, the gay lifestyle is not for me.

Judging someone simply because they’re gay is like judging someone because their Christian or from Georgia.

Try judging people by their deeds, not by the lifestyle or color of their skin or the type of car they drive.

It is really hilarious to read all this crap. All a sudden the Democrats are trying to act like the are Republicans and the Republicans are accused of being like the Democrats. All because of one sick {{{{I CAN'T SAY}}} on the Republican side.

Either all this is real silly or are the differences between the two parties really disappearing after all?

lin WASTEMORON was the first person to break the Fayette County Land use plan, he did it in 1986.
I'll vote for WASTEMORON when he pays the BRIBE money back to the "Beer, Wine and Liquor lobby"
I'll vote for WASTEMORELAND when he pays back the money he took from the TDK Developers.
I'll vote for WASTEMORON when he really cares for us and closes the Poision Plant.
I guess I can't vote for WASTEMORON.
WASTEMORELAND or WASTEMORON represents the DEVELOPERS.

Get real. Westmoreland has more intelligence and sense in his smallest finger than certain individuals who post blogs and do not understand that without them Fayette County would not have a lot of problems that exist because those moving through must bring their garbage with them and have so much clutter that no one can exist. If you ever met a real "town" you wouldn't know it.

Huh? thanks for helping McGraw with that runon sentence. Awesome.

Ya know, I consider myself informed about the upcoming elections on the major issues. And, I like many Americans would like to think I vote for the person not the party line. I want what is best for my community, state, country and family. But after much thought and discussion with many of my friends, I felt the need to speak out about the upcoming District 3 Congressional race. I'm supporting Mike McGraw for this highly visible campaign. The reasons are clear. I've had enough of the "do-nothing" that is going on in congress right now! It is my belief that Mike McGraw possesses the desire to clean up main stream government and actually do something about issues like energy, education and social security reform. The fact that Mr. McGraw is willing to reach across the isle right off the bat is an encouraging statement. The idea that helping middle class Americans can help strengthen our social and economic values are something that I find refreshing as well. And as I have been researching the issues and candidates, I couldn't believe what I saw when I viewed Lynn Westmoreland on the Colbert Report. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, here is a link from Mr. McGraw's web site.

http://www.mikemcgrawforcongress.com/media3.html

Now, I don't know about you, but after seeing this, I was highly embarrassed and disgusted. This made me furious about how Mr. Westmoreland looked as he represented me, our district and our state!! I ask you, how can we in our right mind keep someone in the United States Congress who acts like Westmoreland? That is why I'm pledging my support to Mike McGraw.

Mike seems like the best choice we have.
We need tougher EPA laws in this state so we can get rid of the poison plant and never get another plant like it here.

Do you think Mike will help push the FAA to follow their own guidelines for safety? Things like staffing? Things like how many hours controllers work? Controller fatigue? Will he push the current administrator to replace the controllers who will retire this year? I have heard that not even the controllers that retired last year have been replaced,....what gives? I hope he pushes the FAA hard so that we don't see another Lexington.

More, more, more? We need to enforce what laws we have concerning the OSHA and EPA rules, and also the air traffic control situation. If there is only one controller in the tower, shut down the airport until a second one gets there! If a plant doesn't send in reports that can be checked for contaminants, shut them down until they do, and give the President of the company 60 days on the road trash pickup crew! More and more money and people flowing into something unsupervised with no penalties is a total waste, except to provide some more jobs for the party. Nobody cared about only one controller and no control over waste contamination, noone, including you. Pilots are just as likely to screw up as anyone due to the amount of times they are at risk--they need someone to remind them often. Factories will pollute if noone cares---it is cheaper!

dollarday the state of GA has the weakest laws on the books regarding waste recycling plants. That is how we got stuck with the one we have. Even Alabama has tougher restrictions than our state.

As for air traffic, do you have any idea how many problems it would cause to shut down an airport, because they haven't replaced retiring controllers? I'm a pilot, those guys save my life all of the time. We experience delays now everyday, because of congestion in the sky. These people are vital to our security and safety in the air, we can't afford to be short handed.

I’ve been waiting for this topic to come back around.

Remember just before 9/11 the FAA was being blasted for not modernizing the existing air traffic control system? There were hearings after hearings on the hill on this. The same thing was happening with not replacing retiring controllers fast enough.

This situation had been forced onto the back burner for the last six years. Now it’s coming back after a few hundred billion has been spent/wasted on HLS.

Don’t look for any major improvements in the near future. All the planning that was previously done is now so far out of date that the process will have to start all over again.

And cost 4 to 5 times as much.

He's a Democrat for crying out loud!
Why would we in Fayette County want to be represented by the party of sodomy, aetheism and abortion? A bad Republican is better than a medium Democrat (there are no good Democrats anymore after Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman).

Got a personal problem with Westmoreland? Run against him next time, but don't give us a Democratic leader in what is certain to be a Republican-domonated House and Senate. Even Lynn can bring home some goodies for Fayette County in that enviornment. A rookie Dem can't do that.
meow

Right there in your community, there is probably a knee-jerk liberal who says, "Better a bad Democrat than a moderate Republican!" They have got both of you right where they want you. You are both like the fool who says, "I'd rather push a _____ than drive a ______ !"
(Insert car brand-names)

A bad Republican is better than a medium Democrat

Comments like that...and people like you, Mudcat... are the prime reason that pedophiles like disgraced Congressman Mark Foley got away with molesting boys for so long.

It is several giant steps from "Bad Republican" to "Child Molester" In case you didn't know it from the liberal press, Foley resigned immediately and is yesterday's news - even though the Dem's joyfully bring his name up hoping the less informed among us will have a knee-jerk reaction and automatically vote Democrat. Sure, there are plently of uninformed morons out there who may remember to get out of bed on election day and vote on their way to or from buying Lotto tickets and beer, and Democratic they will vote for sure.

Backing Democrats will lead to manythings that Fayette County does not support.

For the record, I belive ex-congressman Foley should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Good riddence to a vile warped disgusting individual. I want to know who held the 2003 disgusting IMs (not the e-mails) for 3 years ENDANGERING every page. I want PROOF that any GOP member knew and ingored actionable info.

Now, basmati can you absolutely guarentee us that there is NOT ONE Democratic representative that does not have a similar skeleton in their closet? We already know the dems have a manslaughterer (Mary Jo), a former Klansman, and who knows what else in their mix.

No, I think dems are playing politics as usual and the dirtier the better.

Still trying to turn this into a referendum on Democrats, eh, Herr Major?

Let's face facts: more than anyone else on this board (Mudcat excepted) you are a "Dennis Hastert Republican", meaning you are more than willing to overlook malfeasance from the likes of the Lynn Westmorelands and the Mark Foleys of the Congress. You're not aghast that Foley raped those boys, you're aghast that he got caught and it might jeopardize the Republican majority in the House.

More and more pages are coming forward with Mark Foley stories...and as Brian Ross said on ABC last night, they are ALL Republican pages (Foley seems to have been a tad selective). Maybe as many as 5 boys in the past 11 years.

As far as you little misdirection ploy about wanting me to "guarentee" (sic) no Democratic skeletons, no, I can't do that and furthermore that's beside the point: Two wrongs don't make a right, Herr Major, a point your steamfitter Daddy obviously never taught you.

It's interesting how men I consider to be REAL conservatives, men like Richard Viguerie and Joseph Farah, have declared the current Republican party as unworthy of further support in 2006. Jackdaws like you, though, still reflexively support the Republicans, right or wrong.

Do I support a woman's right to choose? I do. My motto: Don't want an abortion? Don't have one!
Do I support same-sex marriage? Nope, but I do support same-sex civil unions (government has no bidness regulating religion).
Do I support raising taxes? I support a sane tax policy that will curtail Uncle Sam's credit card spending that will force our children to pay for our extravagances.

But unlike you, I don't support, encourage or enable party-specific pedophilia.

Major dude didn't say he supported the child molester man ... he said he hoped the sicko got what was coming to him.

Then you attacked his dad man - his dad! Even if his dad was an idiot who cleaned vomit up at the fair - it's an honest living - why attack a man's family?

Why do you do stuff like that? You don't have to be rude and crass to make your points. I saw some old posts by you and they were even worse to some OldDude.

As a liberal who enjoys good clean debate, I am embarrassed by your behavior! You need drugs man!

MainFrame

No, not an enabler, but the heritage is there. It is a law that no General, or Commander, in the military can publicly criticize his superiors, including the civilian, the President. This is considered good, since we don't want inferior officers jacking up the troops. However, there is nothing to say that a senior officer can't resign his position and then say what he thinks! It is being done as we speak by a FEW. I am really disappointed in our current officer corps for that reason. Their pension and career mean more to many of them than their sworn duty. Don't talk to me about "on the battlefield" arguing, that is not the case here.

You wrote:

"Do I support a woman's right to choose? I do. My motto: Don't want an abortion? Don't have one!"

You have to know that this is a red herring.

"Don't like slavery? Don't have slaves."
"Don't like pedophilia? Don't molest children"

If person A objects to person B's treatment of person C, it is obviously inadequate to reply that A is free to refrain from treating C as B treats C.

You must argue that B's treatment of C is morally permissible, either because the treatment is morally neutral or because, though morally significant, there is some justifying consideration, or, perhaps, on the grounds that "person C" is not a "person" after all).

Your "motto" leaves the real issue untouched.

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Photo: Cocoa Beach, Sept. '06

Excellent Syllogistic Analysis !

Without commenting on the value quotients, Muddle does a fine job analyzing the logical structure of Basmati's argument.

Your tuition for Symbolic Logic was well spent. Bravo !

First of all, my steamfitter father was a better man than you will hope to be, let's keep him out of this and I will keep your mother out of it, she obviously should have CHOSEN differently!

FACT ONE: As a father of two boys, I despise Foley for his sick perverted actions. When you say "You're not aghast that Foley raped those boys, you're aghast that he got caught and it" you make yourself look more stupid than you already sound.

I do agree with you that two wrongs do not make a right, however where was the democratic leadership when Democrats were caught with pages in the 80s, hell Mass even reelected the pervert, which party stands for pedophilia? Lets ask Bary Frank, no never mind he likes them older, my bad.

Oh and if I have to reelect Lynn to prevent Pelosi from screwing up the house, I can sleep at night knowing our troops will still get funding.

Great comment my dear nemesis. How about you and I git a rope and string us up a couple of thems pole cats? What da ya say? And while we're at it we'll string up your buddy standing behind our President George W Bush.

"Boy, I would never vote for a Democrat"...... Those are words that lead to the "enabling" of a Mark Foley. Basmati is absolutely right.
When we vote for a party label and when the party label is meaningless, then it has no more significance that a flag lapel pin. That doesn't mean you truly love your country or that you would sacrifice for your country.

First of all, let's understand why Foley resigned---only because he wants to avoid federal prison time for federal pornography crimes. If he had done this in Fayette County, Chief Murray would have him sitting in the jail. The strategy will be "he has suffered enough; let him go." Protect the incumbents; protect the pensions. That is what you will hear in Congress. Until we vote character and until we punish deceit and debauchery, we will continue to have "The People's House" filled with reprobates like Foley, Westmoreland and Cynthia McKinney.

Just this week someone asked me--- "Would you have voted for Harry Truman? " Yes, I would have. Democrat, yes, but a man of high character. We need to tell our politicians that character counts or before your know it we will be virtually indistinguisable from France and Germany and those cultures.

Mudcat continues the trash talk calling Quick Draw McGraw (heaven forbid) a Democrat. Instead, Mudcat says that "a bad Republican is better than a medium Democrat".

Well, let's look at Mudcat's definition of a "Reagan Republican":
(1) vote with the President (2) spout the party line and (3) the most disturbing ---"bring home some goodies". I suppose Mudcat believes that graft is in the eye of the beholder (or recipient).

Passing the Mudcat Republican test with flying colors are Lynn Westmoreland and Mark Foley. Both voted with President Bush; both talked the talk (and no more than that); both brought home huge barrels of pork, trashing on other districts for wasteful spending. Foley's big claim to fame was big bucks for the Everglades.

No, thanks, Mudcat. Box up Foley and Westmoreland and send them home. I'll take Republicans like John McCain, Tom Coburn or Tom Ridge.

Final comment--- as a lifelong Republican I will continue to maintain the same view--- I will vote for an honest Democrat long before I vote for a crooked Republican.

Do you think we can yank Wastemoreland out of the race and find a Contract With America Rebpublican to slap in his place? They did it with Foley.

Theoretically it should work. Foley tried or maybe succeeded in "having his way" with some young boys and Westmoreland likes "having his way" with his constituents.

It was a real disappointment that no one opposed Wastemoreland in the primary. Like you said in an earlier post, both Parties have the attitude, "He's OUR bad guy, so we'll keep him." This makes for TERRIBLE government. No wonder so many people don't vote or keep an eye on their (s)elected officials.

When Neo-cons spend more money than any govt. in history, they aren't working for me; they work for the Military Industrial Complex. People are fibally rediscovering that Southern Democrats were never liberal and they are returning to the party. That's what I did!

People are fibally rediscovering that Southern Democrats were never liberal and they are returning to the party. That's what I did!

First of all you clown "Southern Liberals that were never liberal" don't play with ying yangs. Secondly they don't accuse moderates or conservatives of working for the Military Industrial Complex nor do they use the term Neo-cons. You are nothing more than a freaking liberal campaign hack who is supporting McGraw not because of his views but because he would empower your liberal cause.

Again...get the hell out of here and campaign in your own backyard.

And once again....NO...I'm not voting for Westmoreland. You hurt McGraw far more than you help him.