dhofer ... you wrote "Hey, us liberals are just as level headed as ya'll republicans, if not more!" ...
a) ... run that sentence past your English prof ... we liberals would be correct
b) ... liberalism and level headedness are mutually exclusive terms ... one cannot be both. Almost by definition, liberals see the world as they wish it were or imagine that it could be while we conservatives see it as it actually is ... for that simple reason, the young and inexperienced tend to be liberals while the more seasoned among us, having learned the lessons of life, tend to conseratism ... now I know that doesn't explain Rickamaven ... being (Ithink) the most experienced in life among the group of us here, you'd naturally think he'd at least have reached the middle of the road by now. All I can imagine is that during his own college years, Rick must've been not only in the left hand lanes, but somewhere well beyond the horizon to the left ... Jupiter, perhaps.