CalculatedRisk,
You are a breath of fresh air. My heartfelt gratitude and admiration that you are getting out to talk to your neighbors.
For the first time since the 1972 election, I have registered as a Democrat. Like many, I'm absolutely furious with the travesty of justice and decency that the Bush Team are imposing on America.
I'm a fiscal conservative, and I'm appalled at Bush's profligate and extraordinarily cavalier approach to the nation's finances.
I'm a moral man, and I'm appalled at the lies that led us into the quagmire and killing fields of Iraq.
I'm an anti-big-government libertarian who sees in George Bush the antithesis of the ideals of past Republican platforms.
And I'm a social libertarian and I deeply resent the "Big Brother" nanny-state initiatives that Bush is championing like the silly Constitutional amendment on marriage that he's proposing.
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As to John Kerry's strong points, you'll have to get that information from others. I've got a dog in this fight, and his name is Howard Dean. I won't bash John Kerry here. If nominated, I'll vote for him, but I won't work for him. And I would have devoted hundreds of hours and dollars to a Dean campaign vs. George Bush.
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Re: I think the GOP has cancer.
That's a succinct way to put it. I'm in the camp with author John Le Carre who feel that America has slipped into one of its periods of national insanity.
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It's great to have your contributions on this thread. I'm feeling encouraged. I've been in contact with the head of the Bush/Cheney 1984 campaign here in Deschutes County, Oregon, and I hope to attend as many public functions as they put on. Of course, Republicans in this area are notorious for only meeting in closed and non-public situations. This perverse insularity is a sickness, a cancer, as you suggest. Someone has to tell the people that the emperor has no clothes.
Thanks again for your refreshingly thoughtful input. I've got at least 54 SI Bush supporters on "ignore" because they either couldn't think themselves out of a brown-paper bag, are too vitriolic and bloodthirsty for a decent society or are simple greedheads with no consciousness of a community or a nation-state intent on good instead of greed. You encourage me to think that the Republican party isn't hopelessly broken. Just way too corrupt today for its own good. |
