The Underground Man wrote on June 20, 2007 09:39 PM: You don't represent the "fourth estate Mr. Mitchell you represented the moneyed and elitist "Second Estate" who doesn't want any regulation nor any form of social safety net; people like you are WORSE than Bush and Gore combined.

Unlaughing wrote on June 07, 2007 11:17 AM: Another shameless and inept right-wing attack on one of the few political figures of intelligence America could look to over the last 8 years. Mr. Gore's ideas and principles may be subject to debate and even refutation, but Mr. Mitchell writes like most modern, flatulent reactionaries: this is nothing but an ad hominem attack on Mr. Gore, and Mr. Mitchell's "reasoning" swerves like a drunk merging onto I-15. If you really need to understand the insanity and emptiness of today's conservative vision of the world, skip this piece of hackwork and watch the madness unfold in real time in the Republican debates going on these days. Editorials like this are just greeting card versions of the political pornography of America's feral right wing.

Jon Hamel wrote on June 07, 2007 09:18 AM: Let’s consider again Randy Bolton’s final argument: “Corollary – any power has the potential to corrupt”. Now, consider my argument that both Republicans and Democrats in fact are in fact both corrupt and mad for power. I would argue that our current form of Government, that being a majority rule Democracy assures that end result over time. Since the time of Adams and Jefferson a battle has been waged between the concept of a Republic which supports the rule of law as written in our Constitution and the political system of a Majority rule Democracy where the rule of man dominates the rule of law. In part, we fought a Civil war over this issue. After the Civil war the passage of the 14th amendment was to help assure the State Government’s recognition of natural human rights, as enumerated in the first ten amendments of the US Constitution. Then the country entered the Progressive era and we were again on the path of a Majority rule Democracy, the people had spoken, or had got suckered in depending on your point of view. Then when the Modern Keynesian School of economic theory became popular, our Government found a good reason to expand its regulation, and thus control of the private sector of our country. Since then our country has drifted away from adhering to our Western Philosophical traditions of Individual Freedom and Liberty. We are on the move to a Collective form of Government, Corrupt and power-mad persons in Government are simply enabled. In a limited rule Republic, the same person would simply not be as enabled.

Randy Bolton wrote on June 06, 2007 12:20 PM: David Liberty - I would love to actually discuss the merits of the article - if it had any.

The concept of an "ideal" political party is a pipe dream. The real problem is that the RJ and you ignore the fact that the Republican is no better than the Democratic. There are just as many 'ultra rich' people in the Republican part, just as many people with questionable intelligence(including George W. Bush), and just as many corrupt politicians. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely". Corollary - any power has the potential to corrupt.

The best option is to pick the people with the best policies for this Country. I happen to believe that the Democrats are less self-serving than the Republicans, and that their course is the best.

Also - the the formatting of my original sentence reflects the mentality that I believed most Republicans would understand.

T Collins wrote on June 04, 2007 03:36 PM: Haven't the two generations of Gore's been enough? Al Gore had his chance. He lost by a hair, but he lost. If there is a question about the vote count or as to why Gore lost, think about this; his opposition, the winner, was elected the second time.

E. Brown wrote on June 04, 2007 05:26 AM: The media does take the President's talking points. The fact that we know anything about the phrases "axis of evil" is proof of that. All outlets of the media bought up the lies that Iraq was purchasing uranium. Yes, they had chemical weapons, but we were never told of those -- only the uranium and the mushroom clouds on American soil.

When do us real, traditional, small-government, low-tax Republicans get our government back? Do you honestly think a debt spiraling out of control will keep taxes low forever? Clinton was more of a true conservative than Bush can ever be.

Note that Conservative above does not mean anything related to the moral and religious questions. A real, true Republican would be all for removing all religion from government. Both of them should be pure, unable to corrupt the other. God does not care how our country is run--relationships with Him are strictly personal.

joe derter wrote on June 03, 2007 07:43 PM: your article is pooorly writtten and rhetorically flawed.

David Liberty wrote on June 03, 2007 12:47 PM: Randy, I confess to not understanding your point. Mitchell makes cogent arguments, to which your response is not to address the arguments but to suggest that society would be better off if everyone(well, only Republicans, I guess) who agreed with those arguments were isolated off in the desert. Or some such.

The art of suing, that you metaphorically suggest that Republicans should do to each other, is best practiced by John Edwards, by the way. Your mangled sentence about money perhaps more accurately reflects the ultra rich elite left like Edwards and the searing hypocrisy so many of them practice - including Gore, but also his mentors the Clintons, Kerry, Edwards, etc.

The liberal left at one point had intellectual character. It is now becoming intellectually lazy, self-aggrandized, anti-semitic, and arrogant, and the liberal left the reason that someone like Bush can become President. It's because your side is to flaccid and flabby to put up someone who makes more sense that John Kerry. Your refusal to address the article on the merits is one more example.

Randy Bolton wrote on June 03, 2007 10:58 AM: There is an old aphorism that used to be applied to attorneys - this suggestion was to gather all attorneys together and place them in the middle of a desert. That way they could sue each other and leave the rest of us alone. This idea can also be applied to Republican legislators, editors, and publishers.

The above editorial is another example of Republicans avoiding responsibility for their actions. Republican rhetoric is always the same, we fixed things this way we because it in makes us money so leave it alone - anyone who wants to change the current status quo must be insane, and do not know what they are talking about, ignore them.

Scott wrote on June 03, 2007 09:55 AM: Brilliantly written, thank you for telling it like it is! To think Gore was nearly president...

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