I hate to beg,but will y'all DU my 129th LTTE?

[w8liftinglady]

I want to see it on the front page,in front of the Republican drivel...Thanks in advance-it does make a difference-2 colleges in this town.
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2008/02/28/opinion/doc47c5aa51e9868710508574.txt
To the Editor,

Normally, I respect Paul Perry’s writings. However, I found his Sunday opinion piece “To all county Republicans” to be offensive on many fronts. Frankly, I don’t understand the virulence of Mr. Perry’s column or the many recent letters to the editor when referring to Democrats or their candidates.

If anyone should be angered, it should be the American people against the current Republicans in office. Since 2000, we have witnessed the following:

• A war that has bankrupt our country, based on false intelligence, profiting many Republicans and their supporters.

• A complete neglect of our returning veterans, which didn’t reverse until Democrats took control in 2006.

• A non-stop shipping of our economy to other countries to the benefit of a few CEOs and the ruin of many working American families.

• 45 million uninsured citizens and a collapsing healthcare system that favors insurance companies at the expense of Americans.

• A violation of our Fourth Amendment with the FISA Act and subsequent immunities granted to telecom companies.

• Rhetoric about national security, while failing to vote for legislation that would increase National Guard funding, protect our ports, borders and infrastructure.

• A revolving door of Republican politicians to the private sector, leading to favorable legislation for their companies (can you say “Interceptor Body Armor?”)

Unfortunately, The Daily Light has a 250-word limit. If you are curious as to why there is an exodus of voters from “your” party, perhaps you need to examine the roots of your party and how greed and lust for power has betrayed its conservative roots ... I would never use a word like “fascism” to describe “your” party, even though you have no problem using “socialism” to describe mine.

[Lasher]

1. You don't need to beg me, musclewoman.

You're pretty cool. Your wish is my command.

Lasher

Edit: Woah, that's a pretty elaborate mandatory signup there!

[w8liftinglady]

6. if you read the other letters-they are 99:1 for repubs

[stellanoir]

2. would you like to buy a suffix ?

"ed" on bankrupt on the first bullet point.

And I'd only add a thoroughly insecure voting system through which we are entirely bereft of representative leadership.

Otherwise, it's great.

[w8liftinglady]

4. Thank you-I always forget that-we have paper ballots here

[stellanoir]

18. If you have optical scanners it's the vote tallying software that is hackable.

If the margin of victory is greater than 3-5% the paper is never scrutinized and the public has limited, if any access to the ballots.

The victor is declared long before the ballots ever can be counted.

The system is still a mess.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks?utm_source=embedded_video

not too far from the truth

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. yes, we are forgetting DIEBOLD this time around for some reason...

:hug: how's it going Stella?

[stellanoir]

19. See post #18

and just fine. And you?

Nice to see you posting again.

:hi:

[w8liftinglady]

21. Thanks-I had my own version of PTSD..but I'm good again

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. I'll K&R anyone who wrote 129 LTTEs like this one!

[w8liftinglady]

5. If y'all could kindly add a comment-it's what gets us on the front page-I guarantee-no spam

[w8liftinglady]

7. here is paul perry's letter

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2008/02/23/opinion/doc47c0ca9ee0ae4129335208.txt
An open letter to Republicans in Ellis County: Allow me to start with a quote. It summarizes a presumption I share with a former President.

“They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Wilson Reagan as quoted by Michel Quinn Sullivan in the Empower Texas Newsletter

I will, as usual, be voting in the Republican primary. If anyone cares, I plan to vote for Congressman Ron Paul for President. And, yes, quick-on-the-draw radio pundits, I voted for President Bush twice and will most probably vote for the Republican nominee for president this November, even if he is the dreaded “M” word. I encourage my fellow Republicans not to waste your vote.

If you are a Republican, please do not vote in the Democrat primary in order to attempt to influence their choice of Presidential nominee. The Democratic primary is obviously for Democrats. Do you really want to explain to your fellow Republicans why your voter registration card will be stamped “Democrat Primary?” As a sometime election judge, I would like to also remind you that the identifying stamp – branding you as a member of the party of Hillary Clinton, Ted (Life Guard) Kennedy and Michael (the Tank) Dukakis – will be in brightly colored ink. But go ahead if you must; your neighbors’ heckling will breed character. Hanging “Chads” and Florida aside, engage in a little fair play here.

Let the Democrat Party’s members vote their conscience in “their” primary. American lefties have not had the opportunity to have such a good time since FDR’s administration referred to Stalin as “Uncle Joe.” Don’t spoil their party, yet. While I hear Republicans saying they wish to vote in the other party’s primary to disrupt the candidacy of one or another part of the “Hilbama” hydra, the Democratic primary is truly none of “our” business. Yes, Texas does have an “open” primary system, and it follows that if you are really in accord with the views of, say, Barak Hussein Obama, you may certainly cross over to the Democrat primary and vote for the junior senator from Illinois. I submit it is only ethical to do that if you really believe in the candidacy of Barak Hussein Obama, or Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I really don’t think the democratic institutions in our Republic are best served by goofing with each other’s primaries. We party partisans should strive to keep this process structurally, if not rhetorically, clean as long as possible – maybe until Labor Day, anyway, or until our national parties engage their legal staffs in the aftermath of the general election.

On another matter, between us Republicans: At the state and local level, our grassroots are a trifle on edge. Frankly, some of us are a little demoralized. On the state level, we have endured a globe-trotting governor who claims to be of our party. However, he often acts like he is still the state primary chairman for the “elect Al Gore campaign,” which he was in 1988, when he was a Democrat, by name.

From welfare state-inspired attempts to mandate FDA-approved but largely untried vaccines for venereal disease for our 11-year-old daughters to seemingly Mussolini-inspired corporate fascist land grabs (the Trans-Texas Corridor), Governor Perry has been a real inspiration for the Republican Party, an inspiration to fall apart. No ghost-written books on the virtues and trials of the Boy Scouts will resurrect his reputation with most heartland conservatives. It will merely remind us that even such fine organizations as the Boy Scouts cannot always prepare someone’s character for the temptations of the Governor’s Mansion.

On the local grassroots level, we have been shown that our efforts have little if any effect in our own Republican primary in countywide races (District Judge, County Judge, District Attorney or Sheriff), as opposed to district races (JP, Constable or Commissioner). Since at least 1998, our local Republican congressman, Joe Barton, has managed to select the winner – through funding and experienced campaign help – in most, if not all, countywide primary races where there has been a challenger to an incumbent.

The message to the grassroots is clear in countywide races. Work against the incumbent in a countywide race in the Republican primary and waste your time, effort and money. Your candidate will be crushed through the resources Congressman Barton can bring to bear, not to mention the imbalance in attention focused by some in our media upon the challengers – while the foibles of the incumbents are often ignored and, ironically, as easily uncovered. The incumbent protection pack that feeds on challengers in the Republican primary must be defanged.

In hopes of breaking a few teeth, as well as for other reasons, I am going to support a challenger in the Republican primary. I will be voting for Rodney Ramsey in the District Attorney’s race. Call me hard-headed. Since I have run in the Republican primary twice myself (once successfully), people have called me worse.

No one has done more to build our local party than Congressman Joe Barton. He deserves a large amount of credit for that, but it is time for the local Republican Party to stop crawling and start walking.

The party that once championed term limits needs to impose them at the ballot box in a countywide race, for once. Ironically, I think that would be a fitting legacy for those of us who put blood, sweat and treasure into building the Republican Party in this county and that would include perhaps, above all, Joe Barton.

Paul D. Perry is a contributing Sunday columnist for the Daily Light. He is a local businessman and mediator and a former Ellis County justice of the peace.

[progressoid]

11. Well, Paul Perry is a grade-A dumb ass.

Glad to see he is a former justice of the peace.

[w8liftinglady]

13. no shit-but he writes as much as I do

[w8liftinglady]

26. no shit-but he writes almost daily

[Eurobabe]

14. Fugedtabboutit

He's beyond hope. Grade A douchebag.

[w8liftinglady]

16. yeah,but we ahve to confirm that there IS sanity out there..

[duhneece]

29. Done

I hope it gets 'approved.'
It really was a great letter and I can only imagine how alone you must feel--I live in a rural, very conservative county and try to connect with other progressives and Democrats when I can. That has really helped me feel less alone.

[w8liftinglady]

53. you're there...THANKS!!!!

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2008/02/28/opinion/doc47c5aa51e9868710508574.txt

[NewJeffCT]

8. good letter - I gave it 4 stars & submitted a comment

good luck.

[w8liftinglady]

10. Thanks SO much!!!...I am alone here

[NewJeffCT]

17. Sorry to hear that

but I'm glad you keep writing!

[w8liftinglady]

20. Thank you-your comment has been posted..:)

[NewJeffCT]

22. Glad it made it through

good luck in making it to the front page. I had one a few years back on Fox News...

[w8liftinglady]

23. and thanks again for your comment-it means a lot!!!@!

[NewJeffCT]

27. for you

it was my pleasure. I'm probably DU's #2 LTTE writer after you, too.

[w8liftinglady]

28. that's why I love you...Thanks so much!

[NewJeffCT]

30. aww

I'm just afraid you'll kick my ass if I don't listen.

j/k

:evilgrin:

[w8liftinglady]

31. hehe..not unless you ask me nicely!

[w8liftinglady]

24. thanks-your post has been posted...thanks-well written,as always

[Eurobabe]

12. Rated, K&R, nice job, you've been BUSY!

Way to go w8liftinglady! :patriot:

[w8liftinglady]

25. Thank you SO much..it's hard in RED country

[w8liftinglady]

15. thank you all...and at the risk of sounding preachy

You can do this in your own community.Educate your neighbors.Hopefully your editor will be a first amendment freak like mine!I DID nominate mine for multiple journalistic honors.He's a repub,but has always printed my letters,except when I called for impeachment.I'll cut him some slack(80%) Repub in my area.

[w8liftinglady]

32. hell,I'm shameless-self-kick

[The Straight Story]

33. Yes Mistress

:rofl: - sorry, couldn't resist ;)

[w8liftinglady]

35. that's ok-I won't make you kneel-just comment

[w8liftinglady]

34. what an eloquent response-thank you!!!

wrote on Feb 28, 2008 2:35 PM:

" Such an eloquent letter to the editor. For years I was an independent, but for all of the reasons you named, I can no longer vote for any Republican. I, too, see them as fascists. "

[w8liftinglady]

36. thank you all..the latest published

duhneece wrote on Feb 28, 2008 2:35 PM:

" Such an eloquent letter to the editor. For years I was an independent, but for all of the reasons you named, I can no longer vote for any Republican. I, too, see them as fascists. "

[w8liftinglady]

37. Yes!!!we are on "Most Commented"=please add a few more

[w8liftinglady]

38. thanks,y'all-can a few more reply?

I am trying to beat a 25 response letter...thanks in advance

[w8liftinglady]

39. please,I hate to beg...My editor will print anything

[Political Heretic]

40. Of course, our party would be better if the word "socialism" accurately described it

..not from the standpoint of winning elections.. just from the stand point of helping the country. :)

[w8liftinglady]

41. I agree..but my locals equate socialism with stalin

[Political Heretic]

42. Totally, I understand. It's all about good framing. Thanks for your hard work!

[w8liftinglady]

43. lol-freepers are on to us

Reber wrote on Feb 28, 2008 4:46 PM:

" I find it funny that the author of this letter feels she needs the support of her batsh*t crazy friends at Democratic Underground to help make her case: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2937024&mesg_id=2937024 "

[NewJeffCT]

44. yep, we're all batshit crazy here

like foxes.

[w8liftinglady]

45. a few more,t o counteract the local Morans,please

[The Straight Story]

46. Kick

well, you know why :rofl:

[w8liftinglady]

47. Thanks-I like to scare the locals :)

" I find it funny that the author of this letter feels she needs the support of her batsh*t crazy friends at Democratic Underground to help make her case: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2937024&mesg_id=2937024 "

[The Straight Story]

48. Just remember, you don't need to beg

That is our job ;) (ps - the wife and I have, uh, done the same things you mentioned in the other thread, which is why it is so funny to me - no offense meant Ma'am just having some inside fun :rofl: )

[w8liftinglady]

50. hehe-that'll be OUR little secret...enjoy ;)

[w8liftinglady]

49. hehe...any of you batshit crazies want to reply?

[The Straight Story]

51. Sad my friend that some have nothing better to do then to

chase people around the net and attack them with no substance.

Guess they got nothing :)

[w8liftinglady]

52. the most commented has 31 comments...c'mon friends