So many people have become so partisan and so obsessed with their own party's dogma that they can't stop and consider that the opposing party might be correct about something.

Liberals suck when it comes to violent crime. They suck now, and they always have.

This partially causes conservatives to rise to power when the backlash becomes strong enough.

Dukasis' action with weekend furloughs for violent criminals in Massachusetts was enough to sink his Presidential chances, even though it actually had no bearing on the job of President.

The US people as a whole are sick of liberals telling them that horrible criminals deserve a second chance and minimal disruption to their lives, while the victims and their families suffer for life (or are already dead).

The same line of thinking was what was responsible for California passing a law in the late '70s regarding "life in prison without the possibility of parole" being cruel and unusual punishment (no matter how heinous the crime), and it being banned. Seriously. This got reversed in later years, but liberals actually argued for and successfully passed this law.

Things are no different today. We still have liberals who think that the criminal justice system is simply here to make good little citizens out of horrible people, and that we should forgive past heinous crimes as long as the criminal can rehabilitate. No concern about the damage that was already caused! As long as the criminal becomes a good person AFTER ruining/ending lives, it's all good!

Unbelievable.