okie wrote:mysteryman, you need to understand the Dems are mad they've lost their majority. They are the only enlightened ones that care about everyone's rights. The Republicans are all corrupt. The Republicans are right wing nazis. This is the prism through which they see the world. Corruption in the Democratic Party is not corruption because they are doing it for a noble cause. Few Democrats were interested in corruption when their party was in power. They can disagree, but we have the record.
What evidence would turn this fellow's mind around? What, to ask even less, would encourage him to question the cliches that fill up his noggin and permit such sloppiness in thinking?
There's really nothing any of us have to do or argue. The Justice Department investigations are well underway and three or four principals have already plead guilty and are co-operating with prosecutors. The party has prudently removed DeLay from its midst. The broad understanding in Washington (see Newt's recent public statements, or those in the National Review or the WSJ editorials, etc) is that this is a big corruption story and that it involves the Republicans - and if they don't fess up to that and clean house, it will hurt them even bigger than otherwise.
This is a freight train of bad news for the Republicans. What fellows like okie say here might be a curiosity in terms of denial and lack of anything like intellectual rigor but it is completely and totally unimportant.
