Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

Stategy in Iraq- defeat al-Qaeda; limit Iran's influence.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.