“Republicans believe that government should empower the individual — that a government that taxes least taxes best.”

Actually Republicans just don’t want to pay for the stuff they vote for so they just borrow, borrow, borrow; passing the debt and the interest on the debt to our kids and grandkids. Reagan produced the largest deficits in history, borrowing more than all of the former administrations combined. His record held until Bush came in and squandered a budget surplus to now almost double the national debt to over $9 trillion!

“Republicans believe that the playing field, while unlevel, requires an individual to do the best he or she can with the cards dealt.”

Translation: If you are poor or hungry or one of the 200,000 veterans who are homeless then you should starve to death or freeze.

Republicans believe in peace through strength, and thus support strong national defense, and — in this era of Islamofascism — a proactive foreign policy.

Translation: Overthrowing over two hundred years of American tradition, we Republicans now believe that if there is a one-percent chance that you might be planning to do something that we find detrimental, we have the right to invade your country and overthrow your government. If this provides a breeding and training ground for Islamic terrorists then we Republicans are not responsible.

Republicans consider the Constitution a contract, limiting the duties, powers and obligations of the federal government. Democrats consider the Constitution a “living, breathing document,” to be interpreted flexibly.

Give me a break Larry; you simply can not be serious! Without even mentioning this administration's assault on the Constitution, let us look back over the past few years at some proposed Constitutional amendments and see if we can possibly somehow determine which party in Congress proposed them:

1. Amendment to ensure reproductive rights of women
2. Amendment to force the Congress and President to agree to a balanced budget, with overspending allowed only in the case of a three-fifths vote of Congress
3. Amendment to allow non-natural born citizens to become President if they have been a citizen for 20 years
4. Amendment to make the filibuster in the Senate a part of the Constitution
5. Amendment to clarify eminent domain, specifically that no takings can be transferred to a private person except for transportation projects
6. Amendment to allow the President to reduce any Congressional appropriation, or to disapprove of same (akin to a line-item veto)
7. Amendment to guarantee the right to use the word "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and the national motto
8. Amendment to restrict marriage in all states to be between a man and a woman
9. Amendment to limit pardons granted between October 1 and January 21 of any presidential election year
10. Amendment to require a balanced budget without use of Social Security Trust Fund monies
11. Amendment to provide a new method for proposing amendments to the Constitution, where two-thirds of all state legislatures could start the process
12. Amendment to declare that life begins at conception and that the 5th and 14th amendments apply to unborn children
13. Amendment to prohibit courts from instructing any state or lower government to levy or raise taxes
14. Amendment to force a national referendum for any deficit spending
15. Amendment to prohibit the early release of convicted criminals
16. Amendment to clarify that the Constitution neither prohibits nor requires school prayer
17. Amendment to force a two-thirds vote for any bill that raises taxes
18. Amendment to repeal the 16th Amendment and specifically prohibit an income tax
19. Amendment to provide for removal of any officer of the U.S. convicted of a felony
20. Amendment to remove automatic citizenship of children born in the U.S. to non-resident parents
21. Amendment to force a three-fifths vote for any bill that raises taxes
22. Amendment to bar imposition on the States of unfunded federal mandates
23. Amendment to prohibit abortion
24. Amendment to disallow the desecration of the U.S. Flag
25. Amendment to prohibit involuntary busing of students
26. Amendment to make English the official language of the United States
27. Amendment to grant protections to unborn children
28. Amendment to provide for "moments of silence" in public schools

“Republicans, for example, reject Roe v. Wade because the court based it on a right to privacy, not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. Democrats consider the right to privacy implied, despite the absence of any reference to it.”

Tell it to the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

“Republicans believe in the Second Amendment, and that it confers an individual right to keep and bear arms. The Founding Fathers wanted this right to protect against tyranny by government.”

If the Republican Party’s argument for the Second Amendment is now that they are for it “to protect against tyranny by government” then Republican candidates for office should be required to tell us exactly how many US soldiers and National Guardsmen the are willing to shoot and kill when they decide to overthrow the government.

“And this brings us to our final observation: Republicans believe what they see, and Democrats see what they believe.”

It’s the DEMOCRATS that see what they want to believe???

Like all those WMDs?

for President! (I like a man who tells the truth)

O wad some Power the giftie gie us,To see oursels as ithers see us!
(R. Burns)
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
(E. M. Cioran)