To my moderate Republican friends...

Do you really believe that Bush and his merry band of true believers are not dead serious about thrusting for absolute power? Think that just because you wear a Republican pin on your lapel that they won't come after you too? Think again, oh gullible ones. The raving rightwing of your party is squaring the bullseye on Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who's in line to assume chairmanship of the judiciary committee, because he might resist anti-abortion judicial nominees. See
New York Times piece: Abortion Remark by G.O.P. Senator Puts Heat on Peers. And let's face it, Specter's a Jew. Do you actually think the evangelical right really trusts one of God's chosen people? No no no. They're going to demand someone who looks, talks, and acts just like them. Want evidence? Think I'm making this up? May I direct your attention to this memo from the Concerned Women for America, which claims that Specter "earned no mandate" to speak his mind, and is thus a traitor: It is "all the more traitorous for Specter to give aid and comfort to those who've opposed the president's judicial nominees." You see, Specter was already on thin ice. He's moderate, he's from a blue state, and he's a Jew, which makes him traitorous to begin with. The message: if you don't follow lockstep, they will come after you too.