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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:47 AM
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So. Who should have been nominated in 2004 instead of Kerry?
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:48 AM
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1. You trying to start a flame war in the Lounge, Crazy?
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:50 AM
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2. Well I did try to start one in GD a couple of days ago and it wound
Edited on Mon Feb-20-06 02:51 AM by Crazy Guggenheim
up getting 31 Recs .....

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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:51 AM
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3. you?
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:51 AM
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4. Hmmm, I think I could get behind that!
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:52 AM
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5. Kerry was obviously unelectable.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:52 AM
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6. Especially in a Diebold election
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:55 AM
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7. Diebold had nothing to do with it. It was Mary Beth Cahill's incompetence.
Edited on Mon Feb-20-06 02:55 AM by Crazy Guggenheim
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:00 AM
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13. Hmmm, I'd say a combo of the two
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:01 AM
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15. Well maybe next time he could get John McCain as a running mate.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:02 AM
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16. Um, no
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:04 AM
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20. What about Al Sharpton?
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:05 AM
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21. "We gonna ride that mule as far is it can take us!"
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:55 AM
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8. Haha
Add a few more popcorn icons and post this in GD!!

(OK, not really... but I might enjoy it if you did. But only because I'm a sick and twisted individual.)
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:56 AM
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10. Sick and twisted?
Then you fit perfectly in the lounge! :evilgrin:
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:20 AM
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28. Yeah
I don't feel quite as sick and twisted with all the sickness and twistedness running rampant around here! haha
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:55 AM
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9. Dean of course
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:56 AM
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11. Damn right!! I'm sad for what could have been.
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:00 AM
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12. Only one possible answer.
Joe Lieberman.



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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:01 AM
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14. *snork*!!!!!!!
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:03 AM
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19. Unfortunately, he couldn't get enough Joementum going.
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:21 AM
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29. Yeah, that was unfortunate
I was really looking forward to that "Joe-vember to remember" that he promised!
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:03 AM
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17. How about Gephart?
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:05 AM
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23. Don't get me started on that.
I went to the Iowa caucuses as a Gephardt supporter.

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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:06 AM
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24. What?? Are you serious?
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:08 AM
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25. Yeah. I'm serious. I liked the guy.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:09 AM
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26. You are the first Gephart supporter I have met!!
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:12 AM
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27. I didn't get far. We didn't have enough supporters
to get a delegate to the county convention, so I switched over to Kerry. I liked his positions on social and economic issues. He had the best position on health care.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:39 AM
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34. Hey, if we had to have a IWR yes-voter, we could have at least...
had one that would have played well in the mid-west.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:42 AM
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37. OOOOOOOO.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:46 AM
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41. You find my views shocking?
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:47 AM
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43. Of course not. It was just a "good shot".
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:53 AM
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48. I'm a GD: Primaries veteran, what else would you expect?
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:47 AM
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44. .
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:43 AM
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38. Obviously, I didn't like his position on that,
but they all had that flaw, with the exception of Dean.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:45 AM
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39. I agree. My post was meant most sincerely.
I would have been much happier with Gep. than I was with Kerry
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:03 AM
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18. Clark/Edwards....:) n/t
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:05 AM
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22. Yeah but isn't Clark a secret Republican?
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:34 AM
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30. Nader, of course
Zell Miller could have been his VP to attract votes in those 'red' states! he was so popular there!
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:35 AM
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31. Nader? ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:40 AM
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35. the sooner you lounge lizards stop HATIN' on Nader
the sooner you can help get his campaign off the ground....in fact, I think he is deserving right now of the official DU endorsement! Piss on the primaries!
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:41 AM
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36. Maybe when the Greenies run him again .......
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:45 AM
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40. Okay, I just don't "get" Nader
If he floats your boat, then go for it and support him all out. Me? Can't do it.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:37 AM
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32. Drop dead ........
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:39 AM
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33. Drop dead? Crazy, you have cut me to the quick!
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:50 AM
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46. I think he was telling Blue_Tires to drop dead.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:53 AM
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47. Okay. My eyes may not have followed the threads correctly.
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:54 AM
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49. Still, it was pretty rude.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:55 AM
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50. Fuck you it was not.
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:57 AM
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52. Now that was really rude, you fuckwit.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:58 AM
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53. I got your rude right here.
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:00 AM
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57. You can stick your rude where the sun don't shine.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:58 AM
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54. Fuck you, it was too!
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:55 AM
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51. Yes, indeed.
Oh well, I had an absolutely fabulous, fantastic day today, so I can deal with things a little better than usual. :hi:
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:47 AM
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42. Howard Dean.
:)
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:50 AM
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45. Darn right!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:59 AM
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55. HEINO!
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:00 AM
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56. OMG! You are evil .........
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:02 AM
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58. This has been the most active thread in The Lounge in the past five min.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:03 AM
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59. Are you keeping score?
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:04 AM
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60. No it's just something I noticed.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:06 AM
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61. Ah, I see
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:09 AM
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62. Kerry was still unelectable though.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:11 AM
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63. Any Dem would be unelectable with voter fraud
Just sayin'

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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 05:04 AM
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65. No such thing.
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 05:03 AM
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64. Alec Baldwin
I'm sorry. No, that's who I'd like to date.
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dr.zoidberg Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 08:22 AM
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66. Cobra Commander!

Yeah, that's right! What of it?
Also, don't pick Serpentor because he is a douchebag.
:):P :hide:
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 08:43 AM
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67. Howard Dean nt
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 09:39 AM
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69. Dean, baby!
Howard Dean knows no fear...Howard Dean feels no pain...

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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 09:36 AM
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68. Anyone who makes light of the candidate Flame Wars of '03-'04


Obviously neither experienced it nor participated...it was not fun.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:06 PM
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70. I was lurking at the time. I know it wasn't pretty.
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:21 PM
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71. My Rap Sheet
Skinner suspended me 3X in 6 months.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:22 PM
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73. Whoa.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:22 PM
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72. Grovelbot
It's all about the fundraising
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:40 PM
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74. Lieberman!!
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 02:59 PM
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75. Bill Clinton
If the Republicans can fuck with the Constitution, so should we. :)

I miss the Clinton years. :cry:
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politicasista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:33 PM
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76. Kanye West
Edited on Mon Feb-20-06 03:37 PM by politicasista
Or Rev. Al Sharpton.

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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:36 PM
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77. Clark or Dean -nt
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:38 PM
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78. If this is really fantasy time....
President Gore should have been nominated again in 2004. Of course, he won his 2nd term.

The big question: Who will we pick for 2008?

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tarkus Donating Member (780 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 05:03 PM
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79. Russ Feingold/ Major Owens!
That would be incredible.
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