Quote of the day:

By Lee Russ

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 03:37 PM

Make no mistake, the Republican Party is polluted. I have found that out locally here in Bradley County. It's obvious to me that both the Republicans and the leaders of the Religious Right are contemptuous of rank and file conservative Christians, not each other. By forming a new party we cast a new direction united and committed to do the work together. I fear the Mark Foley scandal is only a small part of the problem.

Greg Cain, in a letter to yesterday's Chattanoogan newspaper (Tenn).