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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (2746)	11/20/2000 11:14:28 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

While the writing was on the wall for the Soviet Union well before 1989, the liberals in the West-at least through the mid-'70's-so hated private enterprise that they universally believed and constantly stated that the Soviet socialist system was simply "marching to a different drummer" (their favorite phrase, as banal as it may sound). While the collapse of communism has been pretty-well in their face ever since, their hatred for the private sector lives on, and can be seen in Gore, Clinton/Gore, as well as Nader. These enemies of liberty can only be allowed to prevail for so long before the cause of freedom is permanently damaged. This election would be a good time to deliver them a blow. We shall see. BTW, We WERE losing the Cold War, and quite badly, before Nixon's strategic move of reapproachment with China. The tide began to turn because of it-one of the reasons that Nixon was singled out by the left as a target...