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.<\/a><\/p>\nAnyone familiar with my history with the Republican Party here knows that we parted company years ago, that I have extensively criticized the buy-one-get-two local brand of Republican\/RINO politics, and even went so far as to form an issue committee and sent out county-wide mailings critical of the status quo.\u00a0 The message has not changed and there are several posts on this board to that same end. McShay is flat wrong to paint me with that brush.<\/p>\n
Secondly, on the Democrat Headquarters Vandalism<\/a>, it is deplorable and, I agree, probably politically motivated.\u00a0 I feel very sorry that the nice lady who owns the property had to fear for her safety and perhaps even more.\u00a0 She is a victim and there’s no justification for it.\u00a0 All that said, I think Mr. Thomasson has gone hyperbolic again.<\/p>\n A day or so before the headquarters vandalism, persons unkown vandalized many of the Republican campaign signs along the highway in Elizabeth by covering them with “no”signs:\u00a0 Was breaking the windows at Democrat campaign headquarters a reasonable response?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 But could it have been an extreme form of “blow back” for the campaign sign vandalism inflicted on Republican candidates?\u00a0 Possibly.\u00a0 We’ll probably never know for sure.<\/p>\n Democrats have been escalating their rhetoric and campaign tactics ever since they lost the 2000 presidential election.\u00a0 If they don’t turn that movement around toward peaceful and fair ends, toward responsive conversation, away from monologues of talking points, I shudder to think at what partisan violence they may be leading the country into.\u00a0 And even though I sense that hardcore Democrats will take to the streets and riot<\/a> if McCain wins the election, I won’t let that threat change my vote.<\/p>\n<\/a>.<\/p>\n