The problem with Dittoheads like Mike King is that they all immediately assume that anyone who knocks their icons is a liberal (no, Limbaugh is not on my list, he's too funny to get rid of). Look at the posting by conservative Mr. Wormleigh yesterday.

I happen to AGREE with Dittohead Mike about term limits. I also think McKinney is an embarrassment. It just happens that I also think that Reed and other demagogues like him, on EITHER side of the political spectrum, are threats to everything that our Founding Fathers intended for our nation and to everything that makes this nation the most important one in modern history.

I am an arch-conservative far to the right of Ivan 'The Terrible' and it is amusing to read the comments of these rather silly liberal writers. But I agree with them about Mr. Reed: Ralph Reed is weird, often unstable, and I wouldn't vote for him. And I am extremely happy to be far, far away from Ms. McKinney!

I couldn't help but get a kick out of Antonio's liberal faux pas, mistaking Ralph Reed for Dingy Harry Reed. Sorry to tell you this Pizzaro, but you won't find too many politicians, democrat or republican that are pure as the wind driven snow. What we need as voters are term limits at all levels of government. Do this and say goodbye to the culture of corruption. We don't need career politicians. We need everyday citizens to take their turn in D.C. Ever heard of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?"

Please, oh please, get Ms. McKinney out of office. She's an embarrassment to our district, to democrats and to African Americans in power. She'll claim racial reasons for any action, or for any consequences she suffers for her own childish actions.

She has been utterly ineffective, remaining in office soley because of her ability to manipulate voters and lie through her teeth.

Please, oh please, do the wise thing. Johnson can do so much better for us!

Cynthia McKinney is another victim of vote flipping Diebold/Sequoia voting machines.

Anyone who doesn't know that now really has his or her head in the sand. Better wake up before November 2006!

Ralph Reed's defeat is a bright note in a minor-key week of more Middle East tragedy encouraged by our ignorant crusading there. Reed's hyper-public piety combined with Sammy Glick ambition has long deserved banishment from public life. As a "PK" or preachers kid myself, I loathe the public displays of religiosity which, for Reed and many other conservatives, passes for a political philosophy.

Your analysis of Cynthia McKinney is right on track. I am a liberal African-American democrat living in her district and I have been strongly engaged in the effort to unseat her. Aside from her hysterical behavior she is an embarrassment to her constituents. Like many I am tired of her race baiting platform and I have no tangible evidence of what she has done in our area. I was particularly disturbed by a picture of her sitting with Cindy Sheehan that appeared in the Atlanta paper the day after the primary for two reasons. First, I admire Ms. Sheehan and her anti-war efforts and secondly, this was one of the few times I have ever seen her photographed with Caucasians on both sides of her. Obviously I am voting for Mr. Johnson, he appears to be rational and as qualified as the incumbent.

I met Cynthia McKinney after hearing her speak in 2003, was quite impressed, and doubt that her support is waning. The following was posted on the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club Voting Rights Task Force listserv. Sounds to me like Ohio 2004 and potentially California and elsewhere 2008.

One persistent problem with the Diebold electronic voting machines is their tendency to cast votes against the intentions of the voter. The voting day in Cynthia McKinney's primary began with voters complaining that their votes for McKinney weren't being cast for her, but instead for her opponent. Interestingly, no complaints have been lodged that this is happening in reverse -- that is, that the computers are registering McKinney votes intended for any one of her opponents. Team McKinney lawyers have affadavits from voters with complaints that they intended to vote for McKinney but that the machine switched their vote to one of her opponents. Other complaints involve staff insufficiently trained on the Diebold electronic pollbooks, thereby delaying voting, thus causing some people to have to leave for work without having voted. Voting times have been extended in some precincts due to official election staff admitting that they did not know how to work the machines.

Many voters were left not knowing where to go vote because the voting precinct had been changed and the voters were not aware of the change. In all, Team McKinney lawyers detailed numerous electronic voting machine malfunctions including machines breaking down in the middle of the voting process. One McKinney pollwatcher noted that at one precinct, the machine did not tally zero at the beginning of the voting day. Unexpectedly closed polling sites, combined with Tom Delay-inspired Congressional redistricting imposed on Georgia voters, electronic voting machine malfunctions--some even in the middle of the voting process--all led to a frustrating voting experience for some voters in the 2006 Primary Election held in Georgias new Fourth Congressional District. The phrase blind faith voting comes to mind. An after-election report of all the voting irregularities reported to Cynthia McKinney for Congress will be available to various electronic voting groups and others in Georgia and around the country upon request.

That's not the only skeleton hiding in Ralph Reed's closet. He also took millions of dollars, allegedly to represent Indian reservations in Congress and did nothing in return.

I'm a long time democrat who has supported affirmative action and multi-culturalism, but I'm disappointed in Cynthia McKinney. I think she made up that rumor that Bush had advance knowledge of 9-11 and she has impulse control problems. Hitting a cop is very childish, to say the least. She may be unfit for duty.

Cynthia McKinney is a criminal. She assaulted a police officer and had she not been a member of Congress she'd have rightfully been jailed on the spot.

I am embarrassed to say that I am a 4th district constituent of Congresswoman McKinney. To the best of my knowledge, she has not sponsored or co-sponsored any meaningful piece of legislation in her previous six terms in congress. Nor has she actually done anything of any meaningful consequence for the general population of the 4th district.

However, Congresswoman McKinney along with her father (Billy McKinney) have had no problem creating ethnic and racial strife within her district and the entire state. Most recently, her escapade with the Capitol Police erroneously calling their actions "racial profiling" seems to call in question her sincerity as an advocate for minority and liberal causes. Is it advocacy or simply an overwhelming desire to be in the limelight to project the image of an advocate?

Any way you look at it, Ms. McKinney has become an embarrassment to the 4th district, the state of Georgia and the U.S. House of Representatives.

I am thrilled at the news about Harry. Ever since they have come to prominence, there has been a group of republicans who have been on my nerves. Their self-righteousness, extreme views, and arrogance have always, at least since the 90s, driven me absolutely batty. Four of these: Trent Lott, Harry Reed, Robert Novak and Tom Delay have now all been disgraced. What is most satisfying is the way that their piousness can now only be seen as a shadow of a joke. Still waiting to never hear again in any form from Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill Bennett...