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This blog will be a terrific experiment. Here's something for your attention: Today, 3/25/05 on the Opinion Page of the DDN, Martin Gottlieb's editorial dissed the Dems again. He wrote: "As for the Democrats, they appear to be spooked by, among other things, last year's election. They are especially affected by one common interpretation of its outcome: that the Republicans benefited from being more conservative on social issues. The gay-mariage issue is widely seen as having brought Republican voters to the polls who might not otherwise have even voted." Martin goes on to say "When the Schiavo case arose, the Democrats were -- one can bet -- having nightmares about the kinds os polls they saw on the gay-marriage issues, polls showing the liberals to be outside the mainstream." ... "The prevailing interpretation of the 2004 election has Democrats running away from social issues. Wouldn't you know that this would happen just when a social issue comes up in which they, not the Republicans, are the mainstream?" NOW I ASK YOU -- WHAT DEMOCRATS IS MARTIN TALKING ABOUT? None that I know. I don't know any fearful Democrats, but then perhaps my personality sends those kinds of Dems running for cover. I don't know any spooked Dems. I don't know any who thought the Gay-marriage issue had any validity whatsoever. Polls did not show Dems to be out of the mainstream on that -- unless Martin is recounting those "propaganda polls" run by the Republican National Committee and Pals. No Dem worth her or his salt has given an inch on moral values to the most IMMORAL group of Republicans to gather in Washington and elsewhere since Nixon's Watergate Bums and Reagan's Killer Gun Runners. Now we have the Torturers and their Apologists, the Pre-emptive Invaders, The Bullies and the Blusterers and those who think the Poor and Middle Class should just disappear or resign themselves to a life of Servitude to the Rich. As for the Schiavo issue -- the only reason that is in the news is because of the press pandering to the Lowly Bushistas who would use anything to divert attention away from their criminal behaviours. So, for Martin Gottlieb's information, Dems are NOT SPOOKED by the last election, we are CERTAINLY TICKED OFF AT THE MASSIVE CHEATING and at the ONGOING PROPAGANDA put out by the MEDIA. Tell Martin you are a Dem and you are not about to cede Moral Values to the Value-less Repugnants! maddi