It doesn't matter who "started" the smear campaign. The Bain ad was false -- does anyone not understand "FALSE"? I was a Gingrich supporter until these latest attacks on Romney; I now support Rick Santorum. All of the GOP candidates are guilty of providing the Obama campaign with fodder to attack whoever he faces in the General Election. Can you say circular firing squad?

What's so distressing so far is the number of false charges being tossed around. For example, the redoubtable Allison described all the things Conservatives want to "ban." Sorry, Allison. Conservatives don't want to ban NPR; they want to cut Federal funding to NPR. As the former News Director for an NPR affiliate, I support that position and believe the network ought to support itself through private contributions. Even NPR says its Federal funds are a small portion of its funding. We don't want to ban abortions, just those for the wrong reasons. If the life of the mother is at risk, abortion is acceptable. I have a stepson given up by my wife for adoption when she had him out of wedlock. It certainly gives him a different perspective...

I'd rather spend time, money and effort making sure he isn't reelected. Given the time an impeachment takes under the best of circumstances, and considering that the Senate (which votes guilty or not guilty) is still in Democrat hands, Pres. Obama will finish the term before anything can be done on that front. Let's not squander our resources.

I have a problem with some of the things Ms. Coulter writes, too, but I am impressed that she documents everything she puts on paper -- well, almost everything. I have caught one or two items without footnotes, much to my chagrine. The radiation studies she cited were real studies, for example. Instead of attacking her, it seems to me we need to take issue with the original authors of the study, yet I haven't heard a peep questioning the credentials of those folks. If their credentials are weak, so is her case. Otherwise, most of the complaining is the equivalent of Shakespeare's "sound and fury signifying nothing." And I can guarantee you it doesn't cause her to lose any sleep.

I have asthma, too, and I have better things to do than worry about other people smoking unless it's at the next table or unless they're guests in my house where my rules prevail. In general, the "problem" of second hand smoke is another of the boogie men that gives purpose to the lives of hard-core Liberals, who always need a crisis (which is most often the basis for their latest cause celebre). I grew up in a family of nine children with a mother who chain smoked. Only three of us have asthma. Mine was childhood asthma which recurred in later years, long after I'd ceased living with my Mom. She was the only smoker in my life. If I'm there first, you need my permission to smoke; if you're there first, the choice is yours.

Sorry, Allison. Conservatives don't want to ban NPR; they want to cut Federal funding to NPR. As the former News Director for an NPR affiliate, I support that position and believe the network ought to support itself through private contributions. Even NPR says its Federal funds are a small portion of its funding. We don't want to ban abortions, just those for the wrong reasons. If the life of the mother is at risk, abortion is acceptable. I have a stepson given up by my wife for adoption when she had him out of wedlock. It certainly gives him a different perspective on abortion. We don't want to ban drugs, just recreational drugs; and, in fact, many Conservatives with libertarian leanings would like to see them legal but taxed and...

As one who is, in Mark Levin's words, "a veteran of the Reagan Administration, I submit that calling allison "allieslut" is completely uncalled for and something more typical of the Left than the Right. It says more about the person writing it than it does about Allison -- whose comments say all we need to know about her.

Actually, what Ann is like is the person who on 9/11 says we should focus on the specific perpetrators of the terrorist attacts rather than "the worst case" of your grandmother setting off a bomb on a plane, thus requiring everyone to be searched instead of a smaller population of more likely persons. Even if we do "acknowledge the trauma that's happening at the moment," we certainly do not have to freak out about it or fan the flames that cause panic as the media did with the radiation from the earthquakes in Japan resulting in a run on iodine in stores throughout the State of California. It isn't the worst case scenario that deserves the most attention; it's the most likely scenario. Obviously paranoidmystic is a name that serves...

As a Calvinist married 45 years to the same woman, and a former Elder, let me remind you that Jesus didn't die for the State. The Bible and the Constitution are two different documents. The Fourth Commandment forbids taking the name of the Lord your God in vain; the Constitution's Bill of Rights forbids us from punishing such speech which is nonetheless a sin. We are not a theocracy. If we were, who would you like in charge? Westboro Baptist Church? They seem to be as anti-gay as a lot of you participating in this discussion. Teufelhunden comparing homosexuality to pedophilia demonstrates the lapses in logic that overtakes those consumed with hate of homosexuals. Pedophilia involves the abuse of children; in other words, there is...

Sorry, I don't know how I managed to double post my message. If someone knows how to edit out the duplicate text, I'd appreciate it.