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In this week's Falwell Confidential, Jerry ( and I sure hope he doesn't get upset with the familiarity) speaks to us about "dirty politics" and Delay's indictment.

His best argument seems to be "everybody else funnels campaign funds innappropriately" so what's the big deal...

Dick Morris, who has no doubt seen up close virtually every political dirty trick in the business, said on the Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes broadcast this week that Mr. Earle has a political axe to grind. He also notes that what Rep. DeLay is accused of doing "happens all the time" in Washington.

And he is surely right. The campaign finance system is apparently full of loopholes and escapes that all politicians utilize. It was constructed out of political convenience and hasn't seemed to matter to anyone. But all of a sudden a top-ranking Republican is singularly breaking the rules.

It's not surprising that Rep. DeLay is the man in the crosshairs. He is one of our nation's most visible conservative leaders and a man who is frequently pilloried by his political opponents. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that he would be targeted in this manner. (I guess we also shouldn't be surprised that Democrats have hurriedly launched fund-raising campaigns around this DeLay "scandal.")

So, now its not DeLay's fault for doing something ILLEGAL, its the Democrats fault for catching him.

Jerry has this organization that is dedicated to licking Bush's ass for the four years he is in office. Its called the Moral Majority Coalition. Its main objective is to make sure that they do not " allow out-of-control lawmakers and radical judges — working at the whims of society — to alter the moral foundations of America."

Now, forgive me if I'm wrong Jerry, but I thought "working at the whims of society" was what we elected officials FOR. Right?

Jerry, I want to love you, I do. With your silver hair and well-tailored suits, you cut a dashing figure.

I just wish you MADE SENSE.

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"Dick Morris, who has no doubt seen up close virtually every political dirty trick in the business..." And completely lost what little credibility he had sometime around 1998. Why is this man still on television? And the Moral Majority Coalition reminds me of the Village People reunion. The Moral Majority was hugely influential throughout most of the 80s, but largely fell apart; then came the Christian Coalition, with a much craftier activist model organized more explicitly around churches, but it lost influence, too (losing its tax-exempt status probably didn't help). I don't know why Jerry thinks this is going to do any good, but if he wants to reignite the "culture war" rhetoric within the Republican Party, I wish him luck. Nothing would bode better for liberals in 2008 than a repeat of the 1992 Republican backstab-fest. Cheers, TH

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Tom Head

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2005-10-09T19:44:18-06:00