TPM Reader BR checks

TPM Reader BR checks in from Texas …

So now, according to Bush, anyone who votes for a Democrat is voting for the terrorists. And law-abiding citizens get manhandled or arrested for questioning officials at public events—or addressing Dick Cheney in a Colorado mall.

This isn’t the country I know and love. It’s gone to a very dark place, not one I care to visit, let alone inhabit.

I’m an old-fashioned romantic, I guess—or maybe just old. But my favorite political story, probably apocryphal, is of the little old lady who was polled in one of the Eisenhower-Stevenson races in the 50s. Who, she was asked, would she vote for. “Why, I’m not going to vote,” she replied.
“Why on earth would you not vote?” asked the pollster.
“Well,” she replied, “Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Stevenson are both fine gentlemen, and the country will be in good hands either way.”

Would that we could still feel that way. And that our leaders, elected or selected, could treat us with a little respect.

Six more days.