Watching Elizabeth today made me feel anxious and watching the clip here made me feel it again. Anxious and wanting to respond.

I am happy for her projected arc into the Republican pantheon, and she IS good. She argues right wing ideas with a passionate and indomitable spirit of no-holds-barred debate on issues that seem to really matter to her.

It’s not her values that I quarrel with, it’s her choices about how to express and fulfill those values. I’m all for country, and supporting the troops, and freedom and frontier virtues. There is nothing at all wrong with the survival of the fittest and self-congratulatory celebrations among friends. It’s also great to feel you are absolutely right about most important things. [I believe that too!]

At issue is her choice and the choice of the Right to “Defend, and attack if necessary.”, rather than “Share, and build if possible”

"So you could say it is a mass event of a kind. It moves and directs and influences the flow of thoughts, of passions, of desires, of deep feelings and how all of this will be directed towards and literally used by the political party in question and its leaders.

The influences at the psychological levels are as potent as any kind of severe storm. This is simply a storm, a weather front of a different nature, but its impact can change the psychological and emotional landscape of a nation, especially when said nation may be a world power."

—Kris - Political Storms - September 14, 2008