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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 11:57 PM
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I think I figured out republican strategy
they are planning something to steal the election as usual and that is why they are presenting this freak show instead of real candidates.
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 11:59 PM
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1. when i see the new dem sworn in
i will believe that we had a real election.
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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:00 AM
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2. you've got that right
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margotb822 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:03 AM
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6. can it really happen three times?
I certainly hope not. Of course, those electronic voting machines make me wary. I am glad to be voting absentee (I just hope it gets counted). Like I said before, the record primary turnout has me hopeful. We can overwhelm them...strength in numbers!

The Public Servant
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:33 AM
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11. Will This Time be Different?


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margotb822 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 01:59 AM
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12. Good point.
hope everyone is ready for it this time. And I don't know if its going to come down to hanging chads. We could very well have the election snatched out from under us by those electronic voting machines. Do you know that Diebold makes ATMs and all of those machines produce detailed receipts? Why can't their voting machines be so reliable? Hmm, I wonder...Oh yea, they are a bought and paid for Republican corporation. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:02 AM
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3. Reality trumps the absurd. Those are the real candidates. It's
the best they can do. Who else could they run, DeLay? George Allen?
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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:09 AM
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9. that's what's scary
one wears magic underwear, one is a racist, one is a very angry man and the 4th one
is a fundie wacko. that's it? that's what they've got?
not the best and the brightest, but the worst and the dimmest.
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Bongo Prophet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 03:09 AM
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13. Those are the very archetypes of the rightwing id
Why W was such a cult figure - he fits all four of those:
1> irrational
2> racist
3> belligerent
4> fundie wacko

The whole sausage -
with extra condiments on top.

;)
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 05:57 AM
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16. Half of the GOP leadership are under investigation...
...and the other half are, by and large, completely unacceptable to the American public beyond their home state.

Look, these things happen. With the exception of Edwards, I felt the same way about our candidates in 2004. Sometimes you get diamonds, and sometimes you get lumps of coal. The problem for the GOP is that their normal crown-the-king-before-the-first-vote strategy didn't work this time around because all of their first picks were politically unviable for various reasons.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:02 AM
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4. They can plan all they like...
I do not believe we'll let them get anywhere near it this time, or ever again...

Too many people (and I include Republicans here) are fed up with the state of the country, and will vote big time for change...

We will give them that change...
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:02 AM
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5. Will you accept that?
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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:07 AM
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8. oh no
Edited on Fri Feb-01-08 12:13 AM by allalone
I have a depth of anger I've never felt before.
edit to add word never. I have a brace on my hand. bad typing tool
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allalone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:06 AM
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7. little wannbee king george has forgotten.
we didn't get along that well with the first king george that pushed us around
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 12:18 AM
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10. I'm not sure
Looks like the Neocons see a really bad chance to win this time out to me. Looks like they are throwing a Bob Dole at the Dems, hoping the complete Bush collaspe waits 1 year and then they can go hard for 2012 with a sitting Democratic president with a health care crisis, military loss and a terrible economy.
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Norrin Radd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 04:39 AM
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14. Yep. That's what it looks like to me.
But also I fear the air of inevitability of a Democratic win. Do we truly have it in the bag? And what about Congress?
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 05:52 AM
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15. OMG YOUR RIGHT!!1!!
The Republicans ran a bunch of candidates who are hated by their base in order to...

Sorry, what? I mean, what?
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moez Donating Member (638 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 09:20 AM
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17. If Cankles wins the nomination
They won't have to steal it... we'll be handing it to them.
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