The Only Issue This Election Day - Orson Scott Card

This essay sums up so much of what I've been trying to tell my friends and colleagues for the past 3 years, from before the first soldier set foot in Iraq. I won't spoil it with my own analysis tonight...it's too important that everyone read this essay by Orson Scott Card, Democrat, and one helluva novelist.

October 29, 2006 - The Only Issue This Election Day - The Ornery American: "I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations.
But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it -- and in the most damaging possible way -- I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.
To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- the party I joined back in the 1970s -- is dead. Of suicide. "