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Old 05-30-2006, 02:02 AM   #31
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I thought FL's brand of senselessness emanated from the back roads, not its Governor's mansion. Place seems better run than LA -- I know, I'm not setting the bar high. However, Kzenraggedout, I've heard "death knell! death knell!" sounded before into my left ear, and you know what? The republic just seems to get the better the more it turns away from its leftists. Death knell for the Left, perhaps, but not for the Republic.

Remember the American Right wants a Republic. The Left -- well, let's just say republican sentiment doesn't run strong or deep there.
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Old 05-30-2006, 02:12 AM   #32
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The Bush Clan and Co. don't want a Republic they want more Big Govt. and to bring us more of the current Oligarchy.
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Old 05-30-2006, 02:22 AM   #33
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Sorry, but those guys are republican to their marrow, in ways the previous disgrace to the White House was clearly not. I am satisfied that this is a representative democracy, a republic, and not an oligarchy, which claim is made only by the partisan and the not very knowledgeable. I want thought out of you, not frothing and raving.

True, the only real small-government outfit out there is the Libertarian Party -- for the time being. Those guys ever get in power, they are in for shocks and extensive soul searching.
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Old 05-30-2006, 02:44 AM   #34
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Really... so that was what the Anti-Patriot Acts & all the inside bidding (& no bidding) were all about? Less government & no Oligarchy?
Wow, how silly of me, thanks for clearing that up.
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Old 05-30-2006, 10:22 AM   #35
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One of the goals of "small government" people is the elimination of corporate regulation. Bidding and anti-cronyism rules are corporate regulation.
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Old 06-05-2006, 06:55 PM   #36
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Rzen, by which I suppose you mean the boogeyman du jour, Halliburton. It remains inescapable that the Halliburton-as-bludgeon set cannot come up with any other candidate that could remotely do the service Halliburton did and does. That's why that nasty pack of jackasses are a bouquet of assholes and hypocrites. About one part of each.

It's a mark of intelligence and discernment to not have been taken in by them.
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Old 06-05-2006, 07:00 PM   #37
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It remains inescapable that the Halliburton-as-bludgeon set cannot come up with any other candidate that could remotely do the service Halliburton did and does.
Wow, in one of the largest economies in the world, there is no other company that can do what Halliburton does in Iraq, namely construction and logistics? Where could we have gone wrong?!!! Why, we're almost as bad as communists!

I hope I came off as sarcastic as I hoped. UG, for someone who routinely finds fault in the lack of research of other posters here, I am amazed that you actually made that statement.
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Old 06-05-2006, 09:33 PM   #38
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Oh yes, they represent us well.
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Old 06-05-2006, 09:53 PM   #39
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It remains inescapable that the Halliburton-as-bludgeon set cannot come up with any other candidate that could remotely do the service Halliburton did and does.
For Cheney, that is.
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Old 06-06-2006, 10:13 AM   #40
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bwahahahahaha! SCF, please!
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Old 07-01-2006, 02:42 PM   #41
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I really think sending another Bush into national politics two years from now would be the last thing the Republicans want, due to the name alone. It would be like naming a ship "Titanic II" in 1913. Sure, it might be a decent ship, but...

The whup-ass ticket? Clinton and McCain split from their parties, go independent, and run together. Both have bipartisan characteristics, and between them they have a wide demographic appeal. They both have solid reputations, so the "independent= whacko" stigma is mitigated... I'd say Powell/Hillary, but the black guy/female ticket would be too much for the fragile; maybe McCain/Powell.
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