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To: Rick Julian who wrote (86045)	8/22/2000 3:17:55 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

At various junctures, we make choices. At present, and for the foreseeable future, I think the Republican Party is a better choice. That could change, and there are variations on the comparison: in a given instance,one might prefer the Democratic candidate, or one might think the Democrats would do well, but the Republicans would do better. It is no necessary slur on Democrats historically, and, indeed, I have defended Roosevelt and Truman, for example, on this and other threads. You are correct that a lot of things affect the state of the nation besides politics. That does not mean that politics are inconsequential. I do, in any case, think that things will be better with Republicans in power. Whether it will be measurable is more problematic. For one thing, we cannot control variables to certainly resolve disputes about causality. I say, for example, that Ronald Reagan was our greatest president since FDR. He turned the country around, set the economy on a sounder course, and won the Cold War. Morale in the country did improve, the economy took off in the later part of his first term, and the Soviet bloc collapsed. But there are any number of disputes about why and what it all means...............