I'm not normally one for doing the Ann-Coulter-style-call-liberals-on-their-own-hypocrisy-and-misdeeds type thing, but after a couple of days offline, having come back and checked my main email account to which readers send me comments, I feel that I've got to say something.

The volume of emails I have received from self-described Democrats and liberals containing comments like "The Republican party is nothing but a gang of fairies," "all Republican men are homos," and "how do you feel now about being embedded with the party of f*gs" (not verbatim quotes, but accurate representations of the language used, nonetheless) has been truly astounding, and I feel compelled to say something about it.

In my experience, Democrats and liberals are the quickest to scream blue murder where any kind of defamatory language describing a personal attribute, over which an individual has no control, is used, and especially when used by anyone who is not "one of their own" (e.g., Don Imus-- I'm not seeking to excuse what he said earlier this year, but I do think it's interesting that he got bashed harder and more rapidly by those opposed to the public use of derogatory comments than did Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat who we all remember used to recruit for the KKK and dropped the n-word a few years back to comparative silence).

In my experience, Democrats and liberals are also always the quickest to claim that they are the only ones who care about gay rights and don't view gays and lesbians as somehow inferior or deviant to straight folks. Even though the media coverage we've seen this week has demonstrated that quite a few on the liberal side of the spectrum have focused their criticism of Larry Craig on the "gay" aspect much more than the "criminal" aspect-- which has embarrassingly suggested an interest they have in exploiting a sense, which I personally believe that, unfortunately, many in the public still maintain, that there is something dirty, nasty, and do...

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The great state of Florida is getting its share of headlines this morning (i.e., whatever isn\'t being focused on Larry Craig and, from watching Joe Scarborough\'s morning show, Britney Spears), with drama afoot on both the Democratic and the Republican sides of the political debate.

First up, the Democrats. Last week, after threatening by Howard Dean (including, according to one source of mine, another signature

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The great state of Florida is getting its share of headlines this morning (i.e., whatever isn't being focused on Larry Craig and, from watching Joe Scarborough's morning show, Britney Spears), with drama afoot on both the Democratic and the Republican sides of the political debate.

First up, the Democrats. Last week, after threatening by Howard Dean (including, according to one source of mine, another signature screaming fest), the DNC Rules Committee voted to strip Florida of all of its delegates to the 2008 Convention, because the state decided to hold its primary a little earlier than the lovely DNC folks had wanted. In other words, the DNC gave Florida Democrats the finger and said "we don't give a crap about your right to vote and have a say in anything" because, heaven forbid, Floridian Dems think that maybe their collective voice should count for something close to the collective voice of the comparatively tiny and unpopulated state of New Hampshire.

While the Florida state party has 30 days to change its primary plans (and get its delegates back), Dean and his DNC look like they may finally have done themselves in, in one of our country's biggest states.

This morning, Florida's senior senator, Democrat Bill Nelson, has come out blasting, essentially accusing the Democratic party of disenfranchising voters (usually the thing that the GOP gets tagged with-- the Democrats' bag is usually more seeking to enfranchise people who aren't legally entitled to vote).

And he is not alone. A top Democratic f...

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