POST SCRIPTS

democrat approach to politics and governance. In the past we have been desperate to win and keep power in Washington DC and as a result, have used the most despicable means to achieve our goals. Our tactics set aside the more civilized and honorable cooperation and exchange and debate of ideas. Instead, we adopted a slash and burn policy; a doctrine of personal defamation and destruction. To put it in the vernacular, we treated the opposition like cr...er, garbage. Examples are Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, Newt Gingrich, Newt Gingrich's mother, Ronald
Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Dan Quail, Oliver North, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby and George W. Bush just to name a few. We have also used the media to place blame on republicans for things such as
environmental disasters, the homeless, and the various contrived conditions of poor people, old people, sick people, children and schools. We have demonized institutions, businesses and inanimate objects such as the NRA and guns, the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, BIG OIL and SUV's, and Wall Mart. We have also dishonored
and disrespected both the military and law enforcement. We have used the courts, instead of the lawmaking branch of government, to force our will and desires on the public. We have done these things because our ideas
generally run outside the context of the American Constitution and the will of the people and therefore are not popular when we present them honestly. We henceforth accept that some of our ideas and ways are in
the minority and that the ability to exercise and adopt alternative styles for ourselves in this free society is sufficient; we need not impose our desires, idiosyncrasies or eccentricities on others or change institutions for accommodation. All efforts to do so will be made through appropriate legislative channels.

"What I don't want is for you to drop into the deep funk we liberals have been in for two-plus decades... hang in there. And do not despair"...I won't make promises as to "how we will treat you, the minority, in the coming years" other than to say we will respect you and we promise to be honest in our dealings with you. We are all patriots and our leaders, chosen from among the electorate, are charged with serving all of the people. The American people deserve the best efforts of our leaders in finding solutions to problems; solutions that work for
everyone. We democrats begin with the acknowledgement that republican's have been right. Small government was the original intention of the founders and small government works best. It is my hope that this will find "we the people" at the beginning of a new chapter in American politics; a chapter that brings honor and dignity to the people of this great nation.

Dear Michael, I'm pretty certain that my version is one you would not consider. So, until you are willing to humble yourself, admit to negative and destructive ways, apologize to those who have suffered unnecessarily under your nasty and vicious attacks, and vow to change your ways, you will find me playing defense as if I were gravity. I promise you, I will be watching and will leave no stone unturned in my efforts to defeat you. I will not stand by and let you continue in the same underhanded and negative ways nchallenged.