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we need a new party, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, not hung up on jesus, not hung up on marx. but in the mean time, the democrats are certainly going down the tubes. you poor, poor people. |
let em learn the hard way. you should have seen this email i got yesterday from Feinstein's office about the Iraq legislation she rubber stamped after feigning her disapproval. dumb bitch. of course i realize im talking to some lugnut intern but hey.... i essentially told her she blew it. she had gone 'gray davis' on those of us who held out an inkling of hope until the last couple of months. not YOU poor poor people. US poor people. you sit in the boat too. |
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Kick ASS! Let the war begin! |
Check out the Libertarian Party. |
On VARIOUS different POSTS. Every now and then. |
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the R E F O R M P A R T Y |
i'm regsitered libertarian. the libby for governor SPIT on a talkshow host. christ. it's all a sham anyway. |
At least we finally had one for Governor in this last election. He even pulled in one percent of the vote. That's not bad in a one party state like Maryland. And, even with a three to one margin of Democrats to Republicans we got a Republican Governor. The first since Agnew! |
Doesn't that toy with the idea of secret ballots? Does it mean that you never have to vote again, and that they'll just automatically put you down as voting for the party you're registered with? Does it save time? WHAT DOES IT MEAN, DAMN YOU ALL |
You have to actually vote for your vote to be counted. No one assumes your vote for you. If you're registered independent (not affiliated with any party), you can't vote in the primary elections, because you have to vote with the party you're affiliated with. Unless I'm woefully misinformed. For the big election in November, you can vote for any candidate in any party, regardless of affiliation. |
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Missouri had something similar on the front of our butterfly ballots. There was a place to punch dem or repub, but I never did that, I actually went through the entire thing... |
Open primary, closed primary, jungle primary cross-filing system. each state, while they have many similar systems, varies to one degree or another. |
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and the media polling service will not call you if you have registered as republican |
most american monkeys, like to take an 'us vs. them' stance, so picking one team or the other appeals to most in that regard. |
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Try NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN and Salon???? |
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Calling MSNBC or CNN liberal is just silly. NPR and PBS, at least the news portions, are rather balanced. At least they're more balanced than the Bush bootlickers and Clinton haters over at Fox News. |
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Here in Ohio, the "liberal media" is indeed a myth. And calling today's cnn and other corporate media sources either leftie or rightie obscures the fact that they are primarily concerned with what will draw in viewers, and whoever gets the most viewers gets the most advertising dollars. So, if liberal opinion programs had more viewers, then they should draw more advertising dollars as well. The same is true for conservative opinion programs. I think Michael Moore had something with his new movie and his examination of the culture of fear in America ( which bears a lot more study). Fear sells. Whoever is the best at marketing fear (either in the news or in political campaigning), comes out on top. Hence, attack ads. Hence, "war on this" and "War on that" and "Y2K" and "duck and cover" and so on and so forth. |
so is that politics? scaring your target audience into voting for you? the dems scare the ancient and the pubs scare the earners? |
Any TV purchased and installed by the DoD is always tuned to FoxNews Network. That includes the TV that is in the Comm Room where Emergency Action Messages and orders are recieved from the SecDef, CIC, C3 and the Pentagon. |
I find most "reporters" today lean one way or the other politiaclly. Most, tend to be liberal now. Very few actually report the news. In other words simply "Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How". Today they are "Journalists". They use all the tried and true methods of propaganda to put forth their ideas of what the world should be. They believe that their audience are either like minded leaders or simpletons that have to be lead in the right direction. |
Of course, there is always "That's My Bush" on comedy central. And don't even get me started on "The Left Wing".... |
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I get a kick out of asking my oldest "You know what the best thing on TV is?". Then I turn it off..... |
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However, after reading this, even if its half true, the Dems fucked up, again. I had read about the Presido matter. |
A few weeks back I attended an anti-war protest and of course a lot of the mouthpieces giving speeches were up there, exhorting people to "get out there and vote". I cornered the head of the local Green Party and asked her the obvious question----past the local level, who the hell is there to vote for?! The big race was the Senate Race---Tim Hutchinson, the big right wing moral majority-type-guy(whose brother is head of the DEA), versus the Democrat, Christ, I forget his name already---Republican wannabe(see Clinton, Gore, Lieberman, etc.) who's made a name for himself by going after Naturopaths...this is a CHOICE? I hate Hutchinson ANYWAY----I hated him even MORE for making me vote for the other guy. The Dems could probably do well to stop trying to be Pubs---but that would ruin a decade-long record... |
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