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"The way to deal with Republicans who have actively worked against our goals is to defeat them in Primary elections"

In NYS, a Primary election for the Republican party can occur only on a day which does not end in a "y". They are as evil as the dumbocraps in NYS. I cannot speak to Primaries in other states. There is, for all practical purposes, only one party in NYS. It is the ruling party. All decisions are made by the Gov. Pataki (r), Bruno (r), Silver (d). When they want political cover, they give responsibly to an unelected "authority" over which we have zero power.

The trolls are not the problem, though. The problem is that so many of us are allowing ourselves to be taken in by those who seek only to prevent us from going to the polls in November to keep their stinking hands off our government for another term. There can be no doubt, that no matter how disappointing our current government has been in promoting the Conservative agenda, that the alternative, enabled by our staying home will be MUCH worse.

The other side knows this very well. Don't give in to the dark side.

Punk the prez? - Moby's anti-Bush tricks

One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes." Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web.
"You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.
"Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, 'What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?'"
Moby didn't claim that he believed the abortion story.
Last month, Bush did propose reforms to immigration policy. But he insisted, "I oppose amnesty, placing undocumented workers on the automatic path to citizenship [because it] perpetuates illegal immigration."
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson likened Moby's proposal to "dirty campaign tactics we're already seeing from John Kerry."
"His campaign was willing to use these kinds of voter suppression tactics against members of his own party in Iowa and New Hampshire," Iverson says. "John Kerry is a hypocrite. He pledged to run a clean campaign. Then he uses the lowest form of gutter politics to impugn his opponents, Democratic and Republican. It's unfortunate but this is probably just the beginning of the kind of tactics we're going to be seeing from John Kerry in the months to come."
Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said, "I doubt that Moby was suggesting anybody suppress the vote. We did not use any dirty tactics against any candidate.

First of all, this parsley-bashing has to stop.

But while you are working on controlling this unnatural compulsion, I will try to rein in some of my disappointments with the President. I do have a list of such disappointments, and it is NOT trivial, but on balance I must agree that he has done somewhat more good than harm, and that either of his opponents would have been disasters.

Court appointments, taxes and the economy, 911 response, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya come to mind, along with improving the military, come to mind on the positive side.

My first serious disappointment was campaign finance reform, a true failure to uphold the Constitution. The Medicare drug program was another, and failure to secure the border - not just during the current controversy but years ago - is another.

Also, I think his relations with the R-traitors, as well as his failure to issue a veto in all these years, have cost him a great deal of credibility with me and many other conservatives. And on a partisan basis, he has time and again assisted very liberal republicans against more conservative opponents WHO WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED HIS PROGRAMS BETTER!

Nevertheless, I will pledge to make every effort to maintain a civil discourse, while I oppose and condemn the policies he advocates that I disagree with. At this moment, that means every aspect of the Senate immigration bill except its rather weak border enforcement provisions. I will save my vitriol for calls to my two senators, including the majority leader. And I will support almost any Republican against any Democrat in November - but my heart ain't in it.