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To: Scumbria who wrote (124571)	9/23/2000 12:23:18 PM
From: minnow68	Respond to of 1570734

Scumbria, You wrote "Instead, they nominated a moron and now they are complaining about Gore." The events are not related. Two things happen in every election without fail. The GOP informs us why the Democrat's guy is totally unsuitable for office. And the Democrats inform us why the GOP's guy is totally unsuitable for office. These two events have zero correlation to the actual quality of the people running for office. That said, IMHO, the GOP did indeed nominate a moron. Mike

To: Scumbria who wrote (124571)	9/23/2000 2:05:14 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1570734

Scumbria, There are always some hypothetical other choices. I don't think McCain was it for the Republican party. And I hope Gore is not the best of what the Democratic party has to offer either. The primary season turns out not to be the process to pick the best candidate, but to pick one who can navigate the political waters the best. Joe

To: Scumbria who wrote (124571)	9/25/2000 7:32:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570734

The Republicans could have been competitive in this election, had they nominated a candidate suitable for the presidency (i.e. McCain.) I'm not sure if Bush will win or not but he almost certainly will be competitive. As far as considering McCain a suitable candidate - Would you say that this opinion is derived from your views on his positions, his ability, his character or his electability? As far as I can tell he is an able person of good character, but the more I learned about some of his positions the more I started to be against him (on a relative basis I'd still much rather have him as President then Clinton or Gore), and I think his electability was overrated. He could perhaps be a good candidate but he in my opinion would have some problems getting the conservative base behind him 100% (though many might still vote for him as a vote against Gore), and the Democrats that voted for him in the open primaries would mostly vote for Gore in the general election. Tim