Given how criminal the leadership of the Republican party has become, I sometimes find myself unconsciously developing overly-positive attitudes about the Democrats. But then I sober up...

I mean, Al Sharpton? AL SHARPTON???? How can any self-respecting candidate even appear on the same stage with that guy after the Tawana Brawley business? Sure, the Republicans usually have their own cast of lunatics...but...AL SHARPTON?????

I once heard somebody on tv (Cokie Roberts, maybe?) say that, when she set out for D.C., her father told her that, if she wanted to keep her bearings in Washington, the one thing she had to remember was that "The Republicans are the bad guys....and the Democrats are the crazy guys." Whew. Truth.

Which is NOT to agree with Nader when he says that "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between the two parties. Anybody who thinks that's true right now is simply not paying attention.