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...generally more conservative than in the Northeast, the GOP candidates are eager to tie their Democratic challengers to the national party. Chris Chocola, trying to keep his seat near South Bend, Indiana, attacked Democratic rival Joe Donnelly for an ad the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee aired recently showing flag-draped coffins of soldiers who had died in Iraq...
Matt Towery, a former aide to Newt Gingrich who is now an independent pollster and commentator, sees reasons for the G.O.P. to be worried that have nothing to do with Abramoff. "The party has misjudged the public's mood. Between the flag and gay marriage, we're running a faith and family-values campaign in a year when the public wants to deal with immigration, tax reform and energy costs," Towery says. But Cagle was nearly identical to Reed on the issues. Both presented themselves as religious conservatives, and both were endorsed by Georgia Right to Life. The problem...
...moment, however, this newfound recognition of reality seems to have only one result: strengthening Syrians' support for Hizballah, whatever the consequences for Lebanon. I see posters of Nasrallah plastered on private cars and police motorcycles, and the yellow of the Hizballah flag darts across my vision wherever I look. The support is genuine - the average Syrian is much more passionate about the Palestinian cause than the most ardent Lebanese - as is the anger at Israel, and at the United States. But it is a targeted anger...
...Ahead of a busy campaign season, Congressional Republicans this summer are advancing so-called values issues like Constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage, bills to grant fetus's rights, and a statute "protecting" the Pledge of Allegiance, in the hopes of pleasing the slice of Americans that care most fervently about these causes and vote on them. That may drive up turnout for the Republicans this fall. But long-term party growth can't be found among those voters. Republican leaders have declared suburbanites and Hispanics to be key constituencies that need to be cultivated for the party...
...their beliefs about the images--and about the war--are not monolithic, and their interests, sadly, are not the only ones at stake. Just as our troops fight for all of us, they also die for all of us. Families, pundits and pols can disagree on what the flag that shrouds those coffins stands for. But that flag is not, and should never be, a blindfold...