Secondly, I have read numerous articles and items from Thompson and happen to find him opinionated, intelligent, and interesting. You I find opinionated, boring, and most often wrong. However, I didn’t go there until you started flinging it around.

Tell me BJ were you born stupid and obnoxious or is that something you have been working up to for your whole life?

Regarding the ridiculous point of Jenn Sierra above about the ‘liberal’ doctrine of infallibility, perhaps she could explain the Republican ‘Doctrine of Infallibility’ when it comes to the military? The General ‘Betray-us’ advertisement has been front and center of the Republican brayings in Congress for two weeks now. If the substance of their whiney complaints doesn’t amount to a ‘doctrine of infallibility’ towards the military, I don’t know what does. Bush himself constantly says that we can criticize him, but we should not criticize the military, ever. But then, he surrounds himself with troops and asserts that because he’s commander in chief, criticism of him is equivalent to criticizing the troops and therefore, off-limits. A perfect circle of illogical stupidity. Side note: I love it how he’s the commander-in-chief as long as he can take credit for something, but anything that requires someone to take responsiblity, he foists it off onto the military, who are normally untouchable (doctrine of infallibility!). For example, in whenever the heat becomes too much to bear (Abu Ghraib, rudderless occupation), he washes his hands of them along with his Commander-in-Chief responsiblities. What ever happened to the so-called ‘War Czar’, Douglas Lute, to whom Bush delegated his Commander-in-Chief responsibility for the wars, anyway?

Like Guiliani, Bush takes credit for everything and responsiblity for nothing. They are ideologically closer than you guys realize. There are few substantive policy differences.

This desperately needed to be said. Like the Jersey Girls, Cindy Sheehan, John Murtha and others, Rudy has been capitalizing on what Ann Coulter called, the “Liberal Doctrine of Infallibility,” and using the grief of New Yorkers and Americans to act as if he has absolute moral authority and should not be questioned.

This is the statement that sums up Rudy to me. While I love his stance when it comes to national security, I disagree with all of his stances on the other issues. If it wasn’t for 9/11 and his leadership in the aftermass he would have no shot, at least as a Republican. But it is his stance on this issue that many Americans connect with, and on this issue alone I think he would make a better president than any of the Democrats.