Shit it's already the dark age.

I think when it comes to politicians things are not as they seem to the layperson. Republican politicians wear religion on their sleeves to get the religious vote. More importantly however, they purposely espouse the most divisive issues and make them into political wedge issues in order to divide the people. Dividing the people against themselves and uniting under the banner of the elite is the modus operandi of the politicians; that's how they operate, serve the elite and themselves at the expense of everyone else, and get away with it. Take nothing any of them say at face value. Politicians use religion as a tool of control, ignorance, and division. They are not sincere.

It's true. The Republican party was liberal in the beginning 1800's!
Republicans are about the rich. No taxes etc. You all know that!

It was pretty much written this way back in '68 when the GOP made their Faustian deal with the Wallace voters, calling it the Southern Strategy. Now the Devil's come for his due.

May God be with them

Yes, them and the redneck useless old whitemen and teabaggers. We need more enlightened and tolerant liberals Candidates for this country to progress toward a more civil society.

added to c u r r e n t "Culture",....and " SF&F and Comics".

James C. Glass is evidence that scientists can be pinheads.

" My father-in-law was a thousand-dollar-a-plate donor until the day he died." well whoopty doo! My father-in-law graduated from Oxford, see this is just as irrelevant.

I also "believe in self-reliance, hard work, independence, and the smallest government necessary to do what needs to be done." and have HAVE never nor will EVER vote Republican. Mr. Glass seems to think that that voting democrat negates personal integrity, one that the good ol' GOP of days of yore had---BULLSHIT.

Sir your party has always been elitist, prone to the whole range of intolerance that the human mind can conjure. In short it has always been and will always remain backwards, never progressive.

Glass writes about George W. Bush---"I despised the man for his arrogance, hawkish and anti-science attitudes, and his poor judgment in getting us involved with other people’s wars. I voted for him only because I regarded his democratic challenger as a traitor to his country." geez for a minute there I thought he was going to drag "Hanoi Jane" into the mix. I do see a traitor flesh out in his writings and it is HIM.

He admittedly voted for Bush after noting that the man was arrogant, hawkish, anti-science and showed his poor judgment in getting us involved with other people’s wars.Why? because Glass is no different than any of the raving right-wingers who infest this very site.

Sir, you can point to all the reasons not to vote for a Republican and be right but what you should also do is count yourself as part of the problem because you are just waiting for another Republican to vote for, evidently your head is still partially imbedded up your ass.

they will implode and destroy themselves....they always do.

Didn't James C. Glass think Bush was a traitor to his country?

I fear their Ayn Rand cult even more. At least the bible teaches a few decent things.

How do you want USA to survive in the 21st century with such backward thinking!

Rep. Paul C. Broun of Georgia has been quoted as saying that science theories are lies from the pit of hell, and the earth was created 9000 years ago.

It never ceases to amaze me how reactionary re_pigs tend to be. I would like to see people like Paul Broun name the dimension where the "pit of hell" resides, if in fact such a place exists. These are the people to whom string theory involves a ball of twine. One would assume that if you are on the Science Committee you might know at least enough of the sciences to prevent you from making a complete fool of your self.

Well duh. In other news, walking in the rain makes you wet, and dogs like bacon.

They are destroying the PLANET !

I do have some republican physicist friends that are still republicans, however, we agree on science issues and I suspect that they vote holding their nose.

As a retired physicist and a former republican, I also left the party because of the disturbing anti science trend.