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I apologize for my comments equating Rush with Archie Bunker.
I apologize for implying "Conservatives" with minds of 6th graders.

I do want to let Ryan McNeilly and David E Thomas that I admire these 
men for not coming down the level I was at: ATTACK!  

These guys are right, I enjoy reading and listening to Rush on the 
radio...I dont alway agree with him though... I expected an onslaught
and deserved it.  After all, it seems that this Rush figure is God-like
to some of you.. And one never defiles another's religion etc..

He's just a man like you and I..he makes mistakes and when he does you
folks ought to at least admit it.  

I see a lot of useless bantering back and forth, labeling of the right
as nazi's and the left as commies... but then we are all Americans..

When there is war, we all share the same foxholes and bury each other
next to each other...In peace we marry across lines (Ryan McNeilly)
and now Bush (I didnt vote for him of course) is leading what I 
consider the most noble of causes in Somolia.

Its easy to get caught up in this, I guess...the "us against them" 
phenomenon.....I suppose if there is a centerline, I stand to the 
left but does this make me a communist?  I voted for Pete Wilson 
for governor of California, I own assault weapons and by golly 
I'd just as soon die to preserve the Constitution of the United 
States of America.. 

I don't see any threat to the country from any left wing terrorism
but I do see the Republican party swaying to the extreme religious
right and citizens have been hurt by this extreme fringe (posse 
comitatus(flame me for not spelling it right) etc. etc.. 

I have a tendency therefore to be wary of anyone advocating the 
overthrow of the Government of the United States and lately the 
only people doing this have been from the right side of the 
centerline...  Remember "7 days in May"?  This is my most frightful
nightmare. A right of center Army General decides he is the better
option and must take control of the democratically elected government.
		    
I also seem to meet these fringe folks when engaged in my hobby
of shooting.. at gun shows, at the range, etc.
I don't advocate gun control at all.. I would like assert my 
right to own an automatic weapon.. hell, I even hunt defenseless
animals for to chow down! But this is peripheral. I believe that
our founding fathers knew that later generations needed to have
the right to put down a government that doesn't rule to the 
satisfaction of the people. I have no illusions of a beneficent
government. A military take over requires a military response 
from the citizenry...and we are talking about joe and bob and
bill ad nauseum getting the armed forces attention with a loud
report (semi-automatic weapons)....in order to get our constitutional
right back! 

So, when I meet these people, they are usually hard core Republican,
hate blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Catholics etc etc etc...

So much hate... (Archie?) OOOOPs..I wasn't going to do that.

The economy is in poor shape, but we would have survived and I
could have lived with Bush for another 4 years... 

So what I am saying is, there is a reason for me to be on this
side of the fence. I am not a communist. Nor leftist. Nor 
radical in other ways i.e. environment, feminism etc.

I am an American just like you guys, and I apologize for attacking
you.  You have your place in the political system and I recognize
that.  Maybe if you guys got yourselves together and threw off
the influence from the extreme end I could even vote for another
Republican for public office.  You ran out of Lincolns though.


A. Zugates, American Democrat 


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