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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:48 AM
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Ted Haggard----Our November surprise.
If you wanted to see evangelical Christians stay home next Tuesday, this may do it. The disillusionment in their base must be enormous.

Let's see: The biggest impact?

a Kerry botched joke

or

one the most influential evangelical Christian conservatives in the country who loves tube steak smothered in underwear.

sweet.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:50 AM
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1. Fundy fruitcakes and republican pedophiles and crooks.
What a freakin' election year.

They couldn't have imploded/exploded at a more perfect time.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:52 AM
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2. yeah they could have...
this is what should have happened in 2004. dopn;t get me wrong, it's great that it's happening now.. but if this had happened in 2004, think of the innocent lives that may have been saved.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:57 AM
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3. You can't look back. That's pointless. And as the old saying
Edited on Fri Nov-03-06 08:58 AM by acmavm
goes:

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts
We'd all have a Merry Christmas
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 09:02 AM
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5. or as other smight say...
shit in one hand and wish in the other, see which one gets filled first. I know you're right, but I just can't help reflecting.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:59 AM
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4. Mark Foley. Jeff Gannon.
These are very conservative people who used their position to put down minorities, including GLBT Americans.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 09:02 AM
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6. I'm gonna say that releasing the plans of how to build a nuke...
with detail not available in any public forum, probably is a lot bigger deal than some preacher being gay and using meth. Now I might be wrong about that. I admit that.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 09:09 AM
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7. That's big...
but to the evangelists...this is huge.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 09:10 AM
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8. Worse: tube steak sprinkled with crystal meth
Oooops.

This is especially relevant in those Western states, where meth is truly an epidemic, especially in white rural areas. As Malorie Knox once said, "bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad..."
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wakemeupwhenitsover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 12:17 PM
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9. I'm going to lock this.
"You are permitted to discuss political or social issues relating to human sexuality, provided that you exercise the appropriate level of maturity, sensitivity, and discretion." Moderator consensus is that "tube steak" doesn't qualify.

best,
wakemeupwhenitsover
DU Moderator
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