If the typical Republican is like Lindsay Graham

I can only speak from what I see, from what I hear in the newscasts, from what I read in the periodicals and magazines. From all angles Lindsay Graham might as well be a Democrat. He is almost like Arlen Specter in that he reaches across the aisle one too many times. And for what?

Lindsay Graham is John McCain's amigo. They stood side by side on the campaign trail when Senator McCain ran for the office of the presidency. They stood side by side to oppose their own party's president, George W. Bush because they wanted to distinguish themselves as renegade independents and mavericks.

Like Senator McCain who collaborated with the late Senator Kennedy on amnesty for illegal aliens, Lindsay Graham now collaborates with John Kerry to uphold this idea of writing legislation based on the global warming hoax. I wonder what's in it for Senator Graham to collaborate with Senator Kerry, the failed Democratic presidential candidate?

Republicans never seem to learn. They try to make nice with the Democrats but when they get too close the Democrats poke them right in the eye with a live stogy or cigarette butt. They recoil backwards, reeling at the unexpected poke in the eye. Still they go back to and assume the same posture - making nice to the Democrats. They get a dose of the same kind of treatment. But like dumb gerbils they keep going back for more.

No wonder Republicans are Democrat Lite. Instead of differentiating themselves from their political adversaries, they try to do better than them engaging in and using the same failed tactics. Republicans should be insisting that they be heard because they have something substantial to say - not just a rehash of the old Democrat line that has never worked.

If Republicans are typified by the likes of Senator Lindsay Graham, Senator John McCain, and Senator Olympia Snowe - no wonder the American people have turned their backs on the Republicans. No wonder they are not only the minority, they are the invisible party - the party of mediocre ideas and inarticulate buffoons.