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Francis: Some differences between 2005 and 2008: No Republicans hung in effigy, no Republicans receiving death threats (as North Carolina congressman Brad Miller did), no Republican Senators told to commit suicide (as Democratic Senator Chris Dodd was), no Republican congressmen physically assaulted (as Democratic congressman Gerry Connolly was.)

Oh, and the comparatively polite protests in 2005 were not conducted shortly after a Democrat walked into a Republican church and murdered two Republicans (google Jim Adkisson). Or after a Republican state party chairman was shot to death by an angry Democrat (google the late Bill Gwatney, Arkansas Democratic chairman). Or after a Democrat, angry about Bush's policies, murdered three cops (google Richard Poplawski). Or after a leading Republican anti-choice activist was murdered (Scott Roeder killing Dr. George Tiller.)
Or after 554 Republican offices were hit with anthrax attacks (554 abortion clinics received anthrax threats in 2001.) Semi-violent protests are just that much more frightening when you have ample evidence the other side are willing to use deadly violence to achieve their goals.

I don't agree with the false equivalence your ilk is trying to create. Adkisson, Poplawski, Roeder, Timothy Johnson (Gwatney's murderer)--you own them. There are no grownups in the Republican Party willing to stand up and denounce them, and their only slightly more restrained counterparts.

They're going even crazier--Andy McCarthy is now saying he approves of an article in "The American Thinker" (another odious right-wing blog) which purports to demonstrate that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote "Dreams of My Father."

Never mind that Obama's editor confirms Obama wrote every word, and never mind asking why on earth Obama would hire a college dropout who had yet to publish a word to ghostwrite a book for him.

They're going Chris Ruddy on us *before* the election. I'd like to hope they discredit themselves with vast swaths of the American public. Have we learned from the Clinton years?

So wonderfully wrong, Emmy @38. But I'm tempted to update to people who are currently living & age-appropriate:
Book should be Brian Stokes Mitchell (why change race?)
I'd cast Audra McDonald as Zoe.
Deven May (Bat Boy) as Simon.
Hunter Foster (Urinetown) as Jayne.
We'll keep Chenoweth as Kaylee.
Roger Bart as Wash.
Lea Michelle (Spring Awakening) as River.
John Lloyd Young (Jersey Boys) as Mal.

I leave the casting of Innara to whoever can make the best suggestion.

We will keep the Rockettes as the Reavers. It will break everyone's brains. Oh, the brain-breaking.

It's things like this that make me fantasize about being a U.S. Senator, and holding up Mukasey's nomination, and insisting on someone independent...arrghh. The Dems should have *insisted* on someone independent. Like Patrick Fitzgerald.

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