On Bush-supporting letters to the editor

"Did you see," I asked my friend Keith S. this morning, "the array of letters in the [Raleigh] N&O today on the Point of View article 'Competence might have foiled the plot' on Sept. 11? The diametrical opposition of the reactions is startling, some of the detractors even referencing Rumsfeld's article the same day in rebuttal! My heart sank. The opinion divide in this country is so stark, I despair for the country's ever being mentally healthy again. There are so many people who buy Cheenie's, Bush's, Rumsfeld's insane stance on the war, how can the country ever get over this?"

Replied Keith:

Read carefully those rightwingnut letters to the editor in the N&O. It's usually the same few gadflys spewing the latest sewage from Turdblossom's daily edict. There are plenty of blow-hard die-hards still chanting in unison with Turdblossom, but they are a strident minority. And they become more strident as they see each set of the latest polling numbers come in.

One thing that I've noticed lately is that fewer people are buying the R-istas' [Republicans'] mantra that they can keep the country safer than the Democrats. This is the blow-hards' last card to play, and they're seeing it trumped by reality. That has them scared sick, which couldn't happen to a more deserving pack of muttonheaded sycophants. After all the fear that they have sown in this country and around the world for the past two decades, it's time they experienced a bit of fear themselves. And to think they are so afraid of just losing control of Congress. Makes you wonder what they don't want a Pelosi-led majority setting committees to investigating, doesn't it?