The main difference is that there are some extremely loyal and solid Republicans who have grown to hate Bush and see the extreme end of the Repub party to be just as much a danger as the DEms see them. Therein lies the hope: the more reasonable Republicans who believe in TRADITIONAL Republican values (rather than the current what is good for Halliburton is good for the world Republican values). I respect the old Republican values...even sometimes agree with them. And I find they respect me. Hell, I get along with them more than I get along with Greens, sometimes.

And the self-proclaimed morality of the extreme right is very hard to believe when the evidence is quite to the contrary. I outline where I see Dems as being more ethical and where I admit they fail. The far right wing fanatics have the same kind of "morality" as some of the Rennaisance Popes who considered themselves God's word on earth...while having mistresses, poisoning rivals and otherwise showing a marked deviance from traditional values. Republicans see themselves as moral because they SAY they are moral, evidence be damned. My diary is trying to point out that the evidence points the other way.

Beyond that we may be close to agreement. What now? To me it is so much a matter of actual SURVIVAL to defeat the Halliburton Republicans that what happens once we do is somewhat distant from my mind. I feel we are in a version of Nazi Germany before the absolute seizure of power. I think a similar, if less blatantly brutal, seizure of power is in progress here. What now? Stop that seizure of power. That is what is important to me right now.