I'm sensing a pattern here. So does Maureen Dowd (the liberal version of the Queen of All Evil).

The Manichaean Candidate's convention was a brazen bizarro masterpiece. The case to sack John Kerry featured the same shady tactics used to build the case to whack Saddam - cherry-picked facts, selective claims and warped contexts.

Swift-boated again.

Didn't we learn the first time around? If this administration will over-inflate a non-existent threat, personalize a clash of ideologies, create a boogeyman out of an opponent lacking comparable resources, and promise a rosey post-conflict future with vague plans and unrealistic projections of the cost -- do you believe for one minute that Bush would hesitate to use these tactics to win an election when he used them to justify the sacrifice our troops?

The so-called liberation of Iraq, where we would be greeted with flowers, has transformed into a catastrophic money-pit. So has the treasury of the United States. Do you honestly have any faith his policy proposals will not do the same in a second term?

Do you honestly believe that Bush is sincere in his desire to eliminate 527's, especially since the 60-day window has arrived where they can no longer run ads like the ones we have seen? Do you honestly believe that the Swift Boat tapestry of lies and distortions did not meet with the White House's full approval?

Do you have any doubt that nothing would have stopped Bush from invading Iraq, regardless of whether WMD's or terrorists where there? Likewise, do you honestly believe that Bush and his operatives will stop at anything to win reelection?

There are no limits Bush will acknowledge in his quest to remain in power, nothing. He has absolutely no honor in the normal sense of the word. Any and all means are justified in his warped mind to further his desired ends. That is more thereatening to America and the world than anything Saddam could have done, Osama did, or Kerry will do.

To Bush, Kerry is no differenct that Saddam -- an enemy to be eliminated by any means necessary. This is the sad state of American politics, and it is clinically insane. If you agree with any part of what I write daily, you are an insurgent or enemy sympathizer to the mind of the Bush Bundesreich -- watch your back comrade. We sill be marginalized as whackos for demagoguery. Dismissed as zealots by the faithful. But one thing they won't do is counter the logic of our beliefs -- they cannot.