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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 11:55 AM
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Is it too early to be talking about 2008 ?
When we haven't even assimulated the fallout from 2004 yet? Does that make any sense?
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gayrebel83 Donating Member (94 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 11:55 AM
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1. No, it's not too early
n/t
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 11:56 AM
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2. no. and it is never to early to get better organized either.
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rabid_nerd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 11:56 AM
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3. No it's not too early
I even have my dog picked out and am ramping up...

Just don't campaign here ;)

It's recount mode here and you'll just increase your favorite's negatives by pushing right now.
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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 11:57 AM
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4. Is it
too late?
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 11:58 AM
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5. Perhaps that is the best question?
:shrug:
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patricia92243 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 11:58 AM
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6. It is not only not too early, it is therapeutic for all of us to keep on
keeping on. Looking to the future will get our minds off the recent past.
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No Mandate Here. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 12:00 PM
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7. Let's turn the Senate around first.
Whup L'il Ricky Sanatorium in 2006. ... and at least four more of his type.

(or as a poster called him earlier... Sick Rantorum. LOL)
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 12:04 PM
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8. Yes!!!!!!!!!. .I hold little hope out of reversing this election, BUT
if we do not spend at least a few more weeks focused on exposing problems and/or overt fraud, we have NO hope of getting changes that might ensure FAIR elections in 06 and 08.

If we fail to gain these reforms, I hold little hope of electing ANY Democrat to the Presidency in 08, 12, 16 or thereafter.

Just a few weeks, folks, ok? You don't have to buy into the "fraud" theory-- It is impossible to deny problems exist. Focus on election reform--just for a few weeks?
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SheilaT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 12:04 PM
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9. Personally I think it's much too early.
If we get our hearts set on one particular candidate, there's no flexibility when things change.

What it's not too early for is thinking long and hard about why we didn't win the election. First off, as I repeated over and over, too many people were assuming we'd have a fair, free, and honest election. Well, we didn't, and see what we got.

What is probably needed is a good, old-fashioned fighting in the streets revolution, but I doubt we'll get it. Especially given that the supposed leadership of the Democratic party rolled over and played dead in the light of obvious election fraud, just as they've rolled over and played dead during the last four years.

Remember, Kerry was the electable one. I want to throw that back in the face of every single person who drifted away from Dean, who truly did represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party because Kerry was "electable". I knew that was a pile of crap then, and it's still a pile of crap.

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pointsoflight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 12:08 PM
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10. No, I don't think it's too early, BUT...
...part of thinking of 2008 needs to be about reform to the process we use for elections, and the best way to make sure that happens is to make sure the errors in 2004 come to light.
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