DVPGSR - Every primary election is a bunch of mud-slinging and assailment of character on the part of the various candidates because they believe mostly the same thing.

Fastball, I find your comments about people growing up and becoming Republican to be not only offensive but grossly presumptuous. While it may be true that you were young and rebellious and then "saw the light" that does not mean that people who support liberal values are immature. They are liberal. What about all of the senior citizens and minorities that the Democratic party has sworn to protect with programs like Social Security and Medicaid? My grandparents have been staunch supporters of the Democratic party since Roosevelt. You can't tell me that my grandfather who has his own sattelite built by NASA that's in orbit right now and is a former air force pilot and president of the American Meteoroligical Society has been immature all of his life because of his political views. Amazingly enough people will have different viewpoints from you. If you are incapable of acknowledging that they may in fact have merit or at the very least they are entitled to have those views, instead of dismissing those people as incapable of thinking "correctly" then you are still immature regardless of any change you have made in your political affiliation. Similarly if you want people to espouse your point of view you do not go about convincing them by insulting them. This is no different than Christian fundamentalists trying to proselytize people by bashing people over the head with threats of hellfire and brimstone.