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The thing you have to remember is that many who call themselves Dems have never even voted. ... either because they are too young or are just getting started in life. The Democrat party philosophy appeals to the young because it proffers utopian ideals. It takes a bit of experience in the real world to realize that Utopia doesn't exist.
There is a HUGE difference between the type of Democrat that is older and has "been there and done that" and the Democrat who is still in high school or college. OF course, there is a small extreme left wing which is probably what you are seeing in those posts.
As Cathy Seipp Lay Dying, Her Nemesis Took His Parting Shot on the Web
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
By Michael Y. Park
The 49-year-old newspaper columnist and conservative blogger, who had come from Manitoba, Canada, to become the sharp-tongued doyenne of the Los Angeles media scene, was only hours away from losing her years-long fight with cancer, leaving behind a 17-year-old daughter, a lifetime of work as a plucky and plain-speaking wordsmith, and the respect of colleagues from both sides of the political spectrum.
But what was supposed to have been a dignified end for a long-suffering single mom instead turned into what friends called a disgustingly public travesty, an example of the current Wild West atmosphere of Internet privacy issues, and a sordid showcase of just how far a beef can go.
Just hours before her death, Cathy Seipp suddenly seemed to undo decades of hard work with an oddly written letter posted on the Web site, www. cathyseipp.com. In what came off as more bizarre rant than heartfelt apology, her supposed very last blog entry called her years of journalism a shoddy, despicable and irresponsible career as a fourth-rate hack. Her political stance? All a mistake.
The fiery, unwavering supporter of George W. Bush supposedly said she'd done a complete 180 in the past year and was now an implied supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. What was even more perplexing was that Seipp was taking mean-spirited potshots at her own daughter, Maia Lazar, whom she called an obnoxious and arrogant wanna-be skank who was mentally ill. Throughout the letter, the one person whom Seipp seemed most sorry for ever having offended was Maia's 10th-grade journalism teacher, who had frequently clashed with mother and daughter. Finally, Seipp said she was probably to blame for her own illness the venom she'd spewed for years was responsible for her terminal cancer.
Friends were horrified. They quickly realized that the letter was the work of an infamous character known as Troll Dolls who'd positioned himself as the blogger's archenemy and bought the domain name www.cathyseipp.com years earlier (Seipp's real Web site is www.cathyseipp.net). Troll Dolls is really Eliot Stein, a 54-year-old former online talk-show host and stand-up comedian who hadd taught Maia in a journalism class for a brief period in 2004, and who blamed Maia and Seipp for his departure from the school after only five weeks. Seipp's friends marshaled their resources, creating an impromptu Internet chat room to make their plans, fingering Stein as the culprit, enlisting the help of a lawyer to serve him a cease-and-desist letter, and successfully lobbying Stein's Internet host to take the Web site down permanently.
For the entire article
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261916,00.html