I do not agree with the path that the Republican party has taken since the 1980s in allying itself with the religious right. I do not believe religion belongs in politics and the government definitely does not belong in our religion. However, I am disgusted every time I hear someone use the word "liberal" as if it were a dirty word.

There are some things which I am more liberal about, but most things I am very conservative about. Ron Williams is right by pointing out that a person gets elected by becoming the most popular, not the most "right."

Politics is an art form that does encompass deception. This polarization is what George Washington warned us about in his farewell address when he said: "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

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Jarred James Breaux