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...stories like this make me wonder if maybe, just maybe, conservatives don’t enjoy their share of wacky types.

Do you really “wonder”, Mike?  It would be a mistake to assume any more than normal human variation here.  By your own admission there was no quorum to take a definitive stand on this obviously nutty subject.  The great majority of conservatives simply want our borders enforced and the invasion of illegals stopped.

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

r108...you got me. I know that there are just as many wacky Republicans as wacky Democrats and I also know that the folks who stuck it out to the end of the Utah chinwag are not typical mainstream Republicans. Given all the complaining about the Cindy Sheehans and Code Pinks of the world it’s kind of refreshing to see that Republican oddballs don’t mind looking foolish in public either.

"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”

Irving Kristol

MikeA: A few quibbles:

I know that there are just as many wacky Republicans as wacky Democrats How can you be sure?  Got any numbers? and I also know that the folks who stuck it out to the end of the Utah chinwag are not typical mainstream Republicans. Given all the complaining about the Cindy Sheehans and Code Pinks of the world it’s kind of refreshing to see that Republican oddballs don’t mind looking foolish in public either. I don’t know how you can equate the 24/7, front page coverage given to Cindy and Code to this rather obscure incident.

Republicans, in general, don’t have the propaganda machine(MSM), that the lefties have, and so lack anything resembling the coverage even the fringe lefties(Sheehan, Code Pink) get.

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

oh robert...next you’ll be telling me that the media is biased against Republican senators who make medical diagnoses off of video.

"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”

Irving Kristol

MikeA: I’m not sure what your reference is, but it isn’t bias to criticize something that should be criticized for good reason.  It is bias to criticize one group for something, but not another group that does the same thing, or worse. It is also bias to publicize either the virtues or vices of one group, but not those of another group.

"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

I found a post on Unqualified Offerings dealing with the same topic. Hilarious!

"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”

Irving Kristol