What a chickens*** tactic. Typical for RW'ers afraid to make a stand.

Some eyebrow-raising signs - like "Free Saddam He Did Nothing to You" - were held by Republicans trying to undermine the protest, they admitted.

"It's all part of the game," said Conor McGahey, a University of Denver student and executive director of the Colorado Federation of College Republicans. "I just wish they could keep rhythm on the drum."

The Post's report on the anti-Bush protest on Tuesday included this striking revelation: "Some eyebrow-raising signs - like 'Free Saddam He Did Nothing to You' - were held by Republicans trying to undermine the protest, they admitted."

Conor McGahey, a University of Denver student and executive director of the Colorado Federation of College Republicans, was quoted as saying, "It's all part of the game."

If McGahey is typical of young Republican leadership, then "the culture of corruption" is more than just a catchphrase. The message that young people receive in Republican student organizations would appear to be that winning by any means is all that matters. Moral and ethical considerations do not.

If deceit and dirty tricks are "all part of the game," then talking up ethical, moral, religious and family values must be as well. People who really believe in those things behave accordingly. They know that the ends do not justify the means because the means are the way we choose to live our lives every day. The means make us who we are.