Stalwart
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Wed Oct-22-08 10:36 AM
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McCain has lost. The party has chosen a strategy for loss.
Solidifying the hate base is the party strategy aimed at the next election. It loses a small percentage of the current base for this election but whips up the fear, paranoia, anger, hate, etc. and desire for revenge in the hate base to be nurtured and carried to the next election.
It will become obscenely hateful as surrogates in the nut base make the strike to solidify their positions and keep them in the business of stoking hate for the next 4 years. It is their great opportunity now and will not be moderated in any way by the candidates. They become independent agents of the same franchise we are finding so hard to fight elsewhere for the same reasons.
They might lose a couple percent of the current base but the ones that they solidify will come to their places and ideas of fear, hate and lies more frequently, with greater fervor and consequently continue to enrich the manipulators of hate until the next election.
They will drive the wedge of division. Perhaps that indecent exposure will have a positive result.
Hate should and will lose.
The alternative is the real change that will win. Reason and faith tells us that regardless of who or what we follow that teaches it (or by finding it on our own). That is another base that is solidifying and I have hope.
The hate base is talking about un-American and terrorists?
Naked truth is a beautiful thing.
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Faygo Kid
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Wed Oct-22-08 10:38 AM
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1. 20 years of Limbaugh: The chickens have come home to roost. |
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They are the party of Hannity and The Squealer.
They will need to deep six their extremists or they will be the minority party - permanently.
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Taverner
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Wed Oct-22-08 10:39 AM
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2. Reminds me of all the Anti-Clinton Hate Propaganda Robertson made |
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Clinton shot Vince Foster and whatnot.
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Tangerine LaBamba
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Wed Oct-22-08 10:40 AM
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3. Your first sentence scares me |
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As November 4 draws closer, I find myself getting more and more anxious. When I hear stories about malfunctioning machines during early voting, how people trying to vote for Obama find their vote is being registered for McCain, and I think of 2000 and 2004, I just get queasy.
Please. Until it''s over, let's just stay in the present. To paraphase Obama, let's not get cocky and then get spanked.
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CrispyQ
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Wed Oct-22-08 10:45 AM
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if Obama wins & we take the House & Senate & the dems don't do something about those fucking machines in the next four years, they deserve what they get! :grr:
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Tangerine LaBamba
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Wed Oct-22-08 11:08 AM
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One word we're not hearing lately - and it chills me - is "Diebold." Nothing's been done in the past four years, as far as I know. Maybe I missed something?
A computer whiz friend of mine showed me how easy it is to hack into the voting machine system. That's why he insisted I get an absentee ballot.
I'm just scared.................
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