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Sun Oct-10-04 02:39 PM
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just imagine of the parties were reversed |
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and the republicans were running an intelligent, articulate, principaled, seasoned political veteran.
and the democrats were running someone who couldn't string a sentence together, misuses words and expressions, throws tantrums, insults people, lost jobs, lost allies, lied about our security, exaggerated threats to install fear, took away freedoms, ran up a record deficit, etc., etc., etc.
just imagine what the polling would be like.
oh yeah, damn liberal media!
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Sun Oct-10-04 02:42 PM
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1. You are so right -- such a Dem would have been destroyed long ago -- |
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instead we are often labeled "too smart," etc.
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Sun Oct-10-04 02:43 PM
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in my lifetime there has never been a national democratic candidate running for president that seemed in articulate or articulate but unintelligent (as Reagan came off being).
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Sun Oct-10-04 02:47 PM
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3. When you say, "just imagine . . . the republicans were running an |
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intelligent, articulate, principled, seasoned political veteran." You are aware that they tried this in 2000, and the Republican party faithful rejected him overwhelmingly in favor of a recovering alcoholic whose main experience was as a failed insider-trader and as governor of a state where the governor is largely a ceremonial position which is most distinguished by allowing the occupant of that office preside over serial executions of minorities?
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Sun Oct-10-04 03:02 PM
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5. i'm aware of this part |
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it's the drunken cokehead inarticulate irresponsible good-for-nothing democrat part that's so hard.
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Sun Oct-10-04 02:54 PM
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4. but the polling then would at least be true, since dems |
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can think and decide for themselves who is the better candidate for all the people and the country as a whole.
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Sun Oct-10-04 03:06 PM
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I need to clean the Coke off my monitor!
Republicans want somebody they can control. Intellect in their candidates scares the piss out of them -- they want inarticulate, moody little boys to run for President, because they can't control the other kind.
Someone else on the thread made that point -- in 2000, they could at least have run McCain -- an ideologue as much as any other current Republican, but someone who could string two sentences together, at least and appeared to have a brain that functioned on a more or less ordinary level.
Ah, but could they trust him always to toe the line they wanted? No, they could not -- and that's why they crushed him underfoot with a smear campaign. They (the current/recent GOP leadership) fear, envy and hate anybody who's smarter than the average bear. Anybody who's smart enough to form his own opinions is dangerous to them.
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