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To: Road Walker who wrote (314558)	12/10/2006 5:24:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1572962

Democratic governors who will take over the majority of state capitols plan to use their newfound power to make changes and help put their party back in the White House. I am hoping that a lot of new and important ideas will find the states fertile ground to grow and develop. Some of the governors who have won in Republican-leaning states say it will be difficult for a Democratic presidential candidate to prevail on their turf despite their own success. The majority right of the past ten years has so confused the issues and the political spectrum that American people no longer have a clear perspective when it comes to the parties. Sure there are extreme Democrats but they are hardly the majority. Prior to 2004, you may have been a Republican but I think you would agree that you are just right of center whereas someone like me who calls himself a liberal is really just left of center. But the new political spectrum designed by the neos and foisted upon the American public makes you left of center and me an extremist. Its nuts. So when a Dem. governor says that a national Democrat can not win in Montana.......I have to think he is seeing Democrats through the new political lens created by the GOP. Republicans from the West and Upper Midwest have been mostly Ripon Republicans, and frankly, the difference between them and the Dems is not very great IMO. But at least two Democratic governors considering seeking the nomination have an interest in turning state victories into a national one in 2008. "There's a shift in power and that means that the American people are seeing governors as the instrument of change," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the outgoing chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. I wish these governors would get the opinion of those who are not their friends and family, or their staff before throwing their hats into the ring. Of the whole lot of them, I think Richardson might make a good vice president [not president]. That's pretty much it IMO. How about you? Napolitano said the Western governors are building a political network to get out the Democratic vote, which will help in 2008. "The whole intent of it is to have a Democratic locus in the inner-mountain West that will last beyond the personalities that are there now," she said. I think there are 5 or 6 big social/political/economic issues that divide this country: ~a national health plan ~gay marriage ~the deficits ~SS ~energy independence ~race/affirmative action If we can come to a compromise on these issues, I think the ideological differences that divide us can be blurred. What's your reaction?

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