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Live Journal was doing something with the base today, so I could not post all day.
I trust you all voted. Vote because you despise Bush and his cronies, Vote because you see a candidate who will best represent your interests in the federal government (I had 2 or 3 of those) or vote against the status quo. I've never voted for so many Libertarians before...
An interesting new ploy in the "lead the voter to your candidate" contest has surfaced in this political season.
No, those harassing phone calls are NOT coming from your local Democratic candidate -- odds are it's a small but powerful group of Republicans who are trying to lead you to their candidates by making you hate your own for massive phone calls.
Try listening to one all the way through -- it's very clever, and we should spread the news it's happening.
Daily Kos wrote about this recently.
...that Andrew Sullivan (old-fashioned conservative) posted.
An axiom is defined as a statement that is widely recognized as true; a known truth. With today's Republican Party, all axioms have been smashed.
Their axiom of fiscal responsibility has been smashed. Their commitment to limited government has been abandoned. A sound and prudent foreign policy is a distant memory. The effective and efficient execution of armed conflict is no longer theirs to claim. A strict adherence to constitutional constraints on state power is flotsam and jetsam. The ethical governance and personal responsibility of public officials such as former U.S. Reps. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif.; Bob Ney, R-Ohio; and Tom Delay, R-Texas, has been exposed as mere mythology.
Now, in the wake of the former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., cover-up where it appears Republican House leaders knew something about Foley's alleged nasty habit of trying to seduce teenage male congressional pages, their axiom of buttressing (pun not intended) traditional morality, a.k.a. family values, has been smashed.
Why reward this in November? Save apple-pie authoritarians and White House adviser Karl Rove's useful idiots, principled conservatives have no business sanctioning this perfidy. Absolute power corrupts absolutely indeed.
I've got my axioms, and I await and welcome the purge with bated breath.
Punish the Democrats later, if you wish, but right now, we should all be members of the Ray Janes party*:
"Throw the B#$%#@! out!"
*(Ray Janes was a friend's grandfather. When asked how he went about studying up on candidates, he said he didn't care about parties, only balance. So he'd try to make sure it was a republican prez and demo house & Senate -- or vice-versa. And his last resort was "TTBO! .)
I trust you all voted. Vote because you despise Bush and his cronies, Vote because you see a candidate who will best represent your interests in the federal government (I had 2 or 3 of those) or vote against the status quo. I've never voted for so many Libertarians before...
An interesting new ploy in the "lead the voter to your candidate" contest has surfaced in this political season.
No, those harassing phone calls are NOT coming from your local Democratic candidate -- odds are it's a small but powerful group of Republicans who are trying to lead you to their candidates by making you hate your own for massive phone calls.
Try listening to one all the way through -- it's very clever, and we should spread the news it's happening.
Daily Kos wrote about this recently.
...that Andrew Sullivan (old-fashioned conservative) posted.
An axiom is defined as a statement that is widely recognized as true; a known truth. With today's Republican Party, all axioms have been smashed.
Their axiom of fiscal responsibility has been smashed. Their commitment to limited government has been abandoned. A sound and prudent foreign policy is a distant memory. The effective and efficient execution of armed conflict is no longer theirs to claim. A strict adherence to constitutional constraints on state power is flotsam and jetsam. The ethical governance and personal responsibility of public officials such as former U.S. Reps. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif.; Bob Ney, R-Ohio; and Tom Delay, R-Texas, has been exposed as mere mythology.
Now, in the wake of the former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., cover-up where it appears Republican House leaders knew something about Foley's alleged nasty habit of trying to seduce teenage male congressional pages, their axiom of buttressing (pun not intended) traditional morality, a.k.a. family values, has been smashed.
Why reward this in November? Save apple-pie authoritarians and White House adviser Karl Rove's useful idiots, principled conservatives have no business sanctioning this perfidy. Absolute power corrupts absolutely indeed.
I've got my axioms, and I await and welcome the purge with bated breath.
Punish the Democrats later, if you wish, but right now, we should all be members of the Ray Janes party*:
"Throw the B#$%#@! out!"
*(Ray Janes was a friend's grandfather. When asked how he went about studying up on candidates, he said he didn't care about parties, only balance. So he'd try to make sure it was a republican prez and demo house & Senate -- or vice-versa. And his last resort was "TTBO! .)
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And I didn't take the easy way out either -- I don't vote "straight ticket", because that leaves me with no voice if there's no Democrat in a particular race. I went down every stinkin' one of them, and voted Democrat if there was a Democrat running, Libertarian if there wasn't a Democrat, and for Republicans running unopposed (a shamefully large number, especially in the judgeships!), I did not cast a vote at all.
And yes, I had to vote for at least one slimeball who based his entire campaign on the fact that his opponent had published a steamy romance novel some 15 years ago -- but he was a Democrat, so I held my nose and pushed the button. "Vote for the crook, it's important." I can work to throw him out next time around... and I'll send him an e-mail telling him so, too, just so he doesn't think he has a "mandate".
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I did most of that, too. We didn't have any uncontested judgeships that I remember -- but I have the same attitude.
I don't know if it can possibly last, but with 7 districts out of 40-some reporting, Kay Baily Hutchinson is 11,000 votes behind her Democratic competition... ;^)
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And often very, very funny --