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To: epicure who wrote (224324)	5/17/2013 8:38:45 AM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542214

I would make a good moderate republican- I dunno I can't think of a single redeeming quality associated with Republicanism, circa 2013 So much so that by simply self identifying as a Republican candidate, I have to vote for whatever the alternative is What would draw you to that party, at any concentration I keep reposting this because it's so damn apt, and written in 1936...and they are worse today "As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead." Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574

To: epicure who wrote (224324)	5/17/2013 10:26:27 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542214

We dems have never had a small tent. In fact most dems are moderates. It will remain like that for the foreseeable future e.g. most minorities are moderates. But it has always been the primary home for liberals and increasingly exclusively over the last 30 years. Saying you would be a moderate Republican, to me is sort of like saying you would be a moderate Nazi-lol.