Reply #6: More importantly, what was more evident is that the Republican "base"

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is a bunch of cowards who think that war is a football game to be won by a team of a selected few. It was also glaringly evident that anyone who looks like the base is considered a "winner." It was a scarily interesting trip inside the RW mind. To see the extent to which symbols and slogans are their reference points to the larger world over the reality that is front of them is breathtaking. Guns and missiles are body appendages. Little fearful minds looking for a daddy to make the world safe for them. Little fearful men strutting, swaggering, and posturing to look tough. Napoleon complexes all.

The other blatant thing that stood out is that they collectively see no problem with the economy right now and are just fine to have the infrastructure crumble and fall around our ears. Discussion of that was only useful as a tool for McCain to jump on his high horse about earmarks and trot it around the stage. Taxes are bad except for the ones that they collect in salaries and benefits.