What happens when Michael Schiavo shows up to support Congressional Candidate, Peggy Lamm?  This fine family shows up to show us the real face of the GOP...adorably insane.  Democrats could learn two important lessons from this event, and the Lamm race.

A few months ago I got into a conversation with a friend from Colorado about Peggy Lamm.  He assured me that she had "No chance of winning," and played up her "outsider" status.  Of course, this only draws me to her more.  My friend directed me to a CO Democratic politics "insider," who further assured me that the DC establishment was firmly behind Ed Perlmutter, which only goes to prove that the Beltway Boys, with their perpetual losing convential wisdom are of no use to the Party.  Lamm is the clear choice and best chance of Democrats stealing another seat in November.  Lesson 1: Don't listen to "Party Insiders."

Michael Schiavo is correct that we should work at "keeping the right-wing agenda at bay," but Dems keep missing an important oppurtunity with these Wingnuts.  If two out of a thousand user-submitted videos to MoveOn.org equate Bush's version of fascism with the Nazis, somehow all Democrats, or "liberals," are radicals and out of touch.  Yet,the GOP can shutdown Congress for a week because a man wants to take his brain-dead wife off of life-support, and the country still uses the benign word, "Conservative" to describe them.  I don't know if it is possible to re-brand the word in the same way the GOP turned "Liberal" into a synonym of "Radical," but certainly a much greater majority of Conservatives are out of touch with mainstream America.  Anyone who calls themself, "Republican" or "Conservative," should have to defend the actions of all Wing-Nuttery (Anne Coulter) in the same way I have to defend every word uttered by Michael Moore.  Lesson 2: Don't paint the radicals as out of touch fringe elements; paint them as what they are: the people that control the GOP and at present, the entire US Government. Normal people should be embarrassed to admit supporting this agenda.

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First it was Beauprez playing dress-up and doing his best Bush "Mission Accomplished" imitation in Colorado.  Now it Marilyn Musgrave, not brave enough to pretend she served and wear a uniform herself, but just unpatriotic enough to reduce soldiers to political props at her events.  After all that whining during the Clinton years, Republicans certainly have no respect for the law. Their insistence on using victims of catostrophe (see 911 and Katrina) and our armed forces as political backdrops (see every Bush event) is even worse than their hypocrisy on the law.

Musgrave Uses Troops as Political Props

A few weeks ago we discussed the fact that the RNC was apparently working with the White House to send active duty members of the military in uniform to speak on behalf of the president's policies at Republican political events. That's against the law and military regulations. And for good reason since that's a quick ride to making the military -- or factions or individuals in the military -- tools of one or the other political party.

Now we seem to have an example in practice.

This is exactly what appears to have happened yesterday at a political event with Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO). This (An) article in t

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From "The Denver Post":http://www.denverpost.com/legislature/ci_3434683

bq. Senate Democrats got a surprise at a pre-session gathering at Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon's house. As they gathered for a presentation on Gordon's TV set, a surprise popped up: A pornographic movie. Gordon said senators were not exposed to an explicit scene; rather, they saw the head of a woman who was apparently having sex. "There was this little glitch," Gordon said. "It was funny at the time. It was an accident and no one was intending to do something like that."

Refreshing quote from the guy with the porn.

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