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GaYellowDawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 07:49 PM
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Unhappy with the Democratic Party? Vote third party!!
Because doing so in 2000 worked out sooooo well.
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 07:52 PM
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1. Mmmmmm . . .
:popcorn:
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 07:54 PM
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5. Can I sit here with you?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 07:53 PM
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 07:53 PM
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3. This isn't 2000.
Frankly, I don't give a fuck who other people vote for, I just don't want other people fucking with my vote.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:01 PM
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8. There Is Even More To Lose Now
The whole ball of wax .....
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:16 PM
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11. I'm fully aware of that.
However, I'm not willing to start telling people how to vote. Either we prove we believe in the system by using it or we need to stop wasting our time and discard democracy altogether. However, I thought that was the point, especially if we're to take the high ground about them cheating the system. What we need to focus on instead if voting for others is 1) to make sure all votes are honestly counted and 2) to make sure we all vote. Despite the statistaganda of the other side, there are far more of us than there are of them. If we would just fucking register and turn out, we could make enough of a ballot landslide that it would be very difficult for them to cheat, especially with all the eyes that will be on them.

Voting is a right and a responsibility. I don't want to mess with anyone else's any more than I want them messing with mine. The sin this election isn't in choosing a particular candidate, it's in not voting at all. (That said, I'd rather someone not vote at all than to vote irresponsibly.)
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 07:54 PM
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4. Ahhh starting this crap again.
It seems I still have a good antibody titre to it, I'm starting to break out in hives.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:01 PM
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7. Why not? It's much more entertaining to point fingers and whine,
than to come up with solutions and actually work with people we'd sometimes want to point fingers at.

No wonder our country is devolving. Caught up in our own petty emotions and finger pointing. No wonder nothing positive ever gets done; both sides are too busy pointing fingers at each other, then turning to use and pointing fingers at us telling why we ought to vote for them again. DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB!


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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 07:59 PM
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6. A reminder to you,
A politician builds credibility in the action. Not in the word or promise made.

Voting Dem in 2000 didn't help us so well either. Or in 2002. Or in 2004.

And I'm talking about what the party does once elected in. By and large they've done nothing or bent over backwards.

Some will say they've done so in good faith. I can believe that to an extent.

Others are DINOs, pure and simple.

And the ethical Republicans are now disagreeing with what is going on too. About time too.
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earthside Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:04 PM
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9. Bush Stole the 2000 Election!
That is the true story: Bush cheated and stole the 2000 presidential election.

Say that over and over again: Bush stole the 2000 election.

Get over the Nader and Buchanan and Harry Browne excuses ... Gore received the most votes in Florida and the rest of the country --period.

Keep your focus on the true foe. George W. Bush and Dick "Chickenhawk" Cheney stole the election that Gore won.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:13 PM
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10. Why you causin trubble?
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 08:18 PM
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12. We already tried the ABB
and that worked so well (NOT).

Hopefully the Dems nominate someone that can win, and fix the black box voting issues.
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