dave29
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:35 PM
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Did Clark vote for Bush Senior? |
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Thats what I want to know
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:38 PM
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1. There's a thing called google |
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have you tried it? I've been told it does wondrous things.
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:41 PM
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2. I'm a google expert ... |
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and to be quite honest that would be a tough search.. Me's thinks it would be easier to ask my fellow DU'er if they knew?
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Fri Sep-19-03 03:22 PM
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9. yeah still unable to find anything |
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don't think it's documented
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Fri Sep-19-03 07:22 PM
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17. there's also a thing called an ass |
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Fri Sep-19-03 07:25 PM
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18. Can't say I didn't see that one coming. |
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Another hobby to add to his list.
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:41 PM
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3. he says he turned dem in '92 with Clinton |
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so he might have voted for Poppy in '88 against Duke. but I don't think he has yet been asked that.
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:42 PM
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4. Earlier threads this morning say no, |
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Edited on Fri Sep-19-03 02:44 PM by NRK
he voted for Clinton in 1992.
On edit: forgot about 1988, don't know the answer to that. Might well have.
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dave29
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:48 PM
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5. I figured one of the Clark supporters would have the answer |
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I can google with the best of em - but have found nothing yet
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:54 PM
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6. Here is something that must |
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at DU do not undestand...
Clark went through the same transformastion that many members of the Armed Forces of HIS generation went through.
As my brother in law puts it, very well.. when he joined the service he had conservative leanings, hell Republican leanings.
Then came Ronnie Ray Gun and over his whole bloody administration he fought to reduce the pay of soldiers... and got rid of Cost of Living Adjustments and things like that.
Now my Brother in Law was an enlisted man in the Navy so these things hit him faster and quite frankly the troops do not care for them toys as much as the officer corp. I suspect Clark had a similar transformation and finally after the Gulf War I, he decided that he had enough of the we love the troops crap, but lets not pay them enough... after all even if you are a division commander you still have to deal with the married Specialist living on foodstamps.
The point i am tryng to make and I hope it is clear for many is that many in the armed forces who were Republicans at one point turned out to not only be Democrats later in life but quite frankly they get more liberal as the years go by, and this is particularly the case with the Vietnam Generation.
Now I live on base right now as my husband is still in the USN (soon to retire) and I have seen the same process take place over the last three years... yes Bush is creating a bunch of newly minted Democrats that gee golly did vote for him in 2000 since they did buy the bull, but will not vote for him again... or in many cases they have figured this out and they will not vote for Republicans, period.
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:55 PM
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7. I voted for Bush Sr too |
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Was a registered Republican then.
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Fri Sep-19-03 03:27 PM
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10. How relevant is it *when* you saw the light... |
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... as long as you saw the light? I don't give a good goddam who voted repub in the past. I did. I grew up in a conservative atmosphere, real reagan-youth kinda stuff. A strange thing happened when I went off to college, I started thinking for myself (though the university was chock full o' conservatives). Been doing it ever since. In the interest of full disclosure, I voted- reagan, bush41, bush41, Clinton, Gore. I truly realized in 1994 that i was a RINO before there was a name for it and I've been consciously left-center ever since. I call myself a common sense moderate (yeah, I know), but I'm a registered Democrat now. Sometimes the truth just finds you.
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Fri Sep-19-03 05:25 PM
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if you want to lead the choir, it does matter how long you've been singing the same tune.
not long ago, Clark was singing a different one.
as recently as 2 years ago, long AFTER his supposed conversion by Clinton, he was helping repubs raise money. is that the kind of dem we really want to put in the white house? one who's so "bi-partisan" that he'll help out the enemy? i say hell no! especially because we have a great field without Clark, we have a great chance to put a real democrat in that position.
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Fri Sep-19-03 06:43 PM
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Republican family and when I became more familiar with issues on my own I realized I really was never a Republican. I was a sheeple then.
My record: bush41, bush41, Clinton, Gore
I call myself (idealogical awakening) a Recovering Asshole. ;-)
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Fri Sep-19-03 02:57 PM
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8. He voted for Gore in 2000. |
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For what it's worth.
BTW - he said this during an interview on Hardball on the 17th, transcript should be up at msnbc.com.
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Fri Sep-19-03 05:25 PM
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14. Clark also helped repubs raise money in 2001 |
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Fri Sep-19-03 07:28 PM
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20. On the second recounting of this.... |
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I would like a link. I'm neutral. Just want to see the info.
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Fri Sep-19-03 03:33 PM
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11. He voted for Gore in 2000. I've never heard anything about * sr. |
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What's going on with this innuendo, rumor based, smear campaign against Clark. Get a life. :spank:
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Fri Sep-19-03 05:09 PM
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Fri Sep-19-03 07:17 PM
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....about 259 hits for 'Wesley Clark pretzels'.........I'm not sure of this is a problem though.
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Fri Sep-19-03 07:25 PM
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19. i've been wondering this, too |
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and chances are very likely that he did... don't worry, it will come out soon enough though...
i will say, however, clark supporters would defend him even if he'd voted for bush 2, i kid you not... they're fucking blinding themselves....
he's a republican who's pro-war, bought and sold by the dlc... and folks here are still defending him as the greatest thing for the democrats...
amazing. just amazing. honestly, i can't believe it. it feels like i'm living in a bad dream right now.
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:46 AM
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21. I'm pretty sure he said he voted for Clinton n/t |
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:53 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=43867Story So Far 1968 ???? 1972 Nixon 1976 ???? 1980 Reagan 1984 Reagan 1988 ???? 1992 Clinton 1996 Clinton 2000 Gore?
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