I think it is safe to say how everyone feels about their presidential candidate - as well as how we feel about the other party's candidate.

So I am going to employ a different paradigm. I will acknowledge that John McCain in the republican candidate and that I do not support him. No bad mouthing. That's it.

What I am going to do is talk about the ISSUES that my candidate brought up during his acceptance speech. He talked about ending tax cuts and subsidies for the already wealthy, timetables for our withdrawal from Iraq, ending rewards for companies that export jobs and so forth.

To the repubs I challenge you to do this:

Please lay out McCain's ideas and goals as they pertain to the issues in the upcoming election. No Obama bashing or complaints against democrats in general.

I truly want to hear your ideas about McCain's specific plans to change Washington (as he himself put it). Let's hear a discussion from you about this without bashing Obama.

Prove to us dems that this election is about the issues and not about the fact you don't like Obama.

Can you do it?

Nothing? No reply at all?

So I guess it is true that repubs don't care about the issues, they only care about winning - even if they have no clue about what their candidate stands for or for what issues he supports/rejects.

It's a sad day in the USA when people would rather spend their time bad mouthing then discussing the issues that shape their lives.

A word of warning repubs. All of this "fun" you are having to try and defeat Barack Obama simply because you don't like him will seem a distant memory when your job is eliminated so a much richer republican's stock can gain 1/4 of a point.

I hope you feel it was worth it when that happens.

The know-nothings can't figure out what to say until Rush Limbaugh or some right-wing dumb-ass at FOX News tells them what they should be thinking, and what to say.

They're ven saying now that the "issues are irrelevant", and this election is about "personality".