You are Evil Rich!  LOL 

Just kidding.

Yeah.

Rich, I recently attended the Wisconsin AFL-CIO New Alliance Conference and had the pleasure of speaking with a sizeable number of organized labor advocates for Hillary Clinton.

Best of luck with your efforts!

Hi Rich:  I wish you only the best with your Ohio for Hillary campaign.  I would just love to see a Hillary for Pres, Obama for VP ticket in November.  Keep up the great work.

I sure had you pegged for a republican! 

Hi Rich:  Was it me you had pegged as a Republican ?  If so, I am quite curious as to what led you to that conclusion.  I would love to hear.  Thanks so much.

Thanks for all of the support.  Truth is, I was a Republican for a long time which is a little tough growing up in Chicago.  I was also a member of the NRA for a while and that is when things started to change.  The Republican ideals are fine to a certain degree, but I started seeing all of the propaganda targeting the weak minded and became a little disgusted. 

I'm not saying that there is not Democrat propoganda.  It is the way of politics, but comparing the far left to the far right, I felt that the far right was had too much contol of the Republican Party and didn't like it. 

There, I'm out.

Interesting to know you are a former NRA member.  I know quite a few moderate and even somewhat liberal Democrats who are sportsmen and firearms collectors. 

Rich, did you know that the AFL-CIO has formed a "Union Sportsmen's Alliance" which represents the issues of people in organized labor who also believe in gun owners' rights?  It's interesting to note that organized labor is reaching out to a broader audience and is not willing to hand over its membership to the Right.

You're correct that the extreme right has taken over the GOP.  Some of the purists among them are prepared to split the party rather than support McCain.