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QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 12:18 PM) I can't remember the last time we had a gubernatorial candidate that was worth their salt. Adlai Stevenson, Jim Thompson . . .

And, he is sooo banned from here

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 23, 2006 -> 10:06 PM) I think it's sort of strange to talk about "early voting". Absentee, ya, I understand. But "early voting"? That's one of the things that they said skewed the exit polling on election day two years ago. Kind of weird, to me. Yah yah yah, go make our next Governor a Jewish Cowboy

I can't think of any serious Republican candidates that I would not vote for instead of Hillary. She is so far down my list of candidates.

I don't have a good scale to know if this is fair or not. Rapists have gotten less. A drunk driver kills a person and gets less.

Be a human. Treat her like any other friend. Ask her if she would like to go do something, anything. Just call. She's probably as nervous as you are. Don't over think this. Be yourself.

I voted today. When the summary came on the screen, in contested contests, I voted for more Republicans and Independents than Dems. Here in South Texas, The GOP doesn't even bother to run a candidate in many races.

Here's a good bumper sticker: I Never Change My Mind -- I'm a Republican Nice to know that Republicans form their opinion at an early age and never, ever, change them. That would be flip flopping or going back on their word.

No way a mlb pitcher has something on his hand that he doesn't know about.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 05:39 PM) /rolly Obama and Hillary... "I will serve my full term"... What bulls***. That is a very long list including the current President. Obviously a guy who never won office before, would be thinking about running for President. LOL. Think about it Kap. Do you really think he had formed plans to run for President way back then? He was trying to win his race. In the middle of that, you think he was thinking hey, people are going to really like me and I'll receive widespread support for a Presidential bid? No matter how hard conservatives try and lock up the nomination for Hillary, she won't be the candidate.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Oct 22, 2006 -> 05:19 PM) it's not like they played a major role here. You know, like dying or anything

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QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 09:24 PM) Uh, Kap -- Not trying to quibble but we did have an election in 2004(not a mid-term) as well and this was posted on FR (Oct 10) less than a month before the Kerry/Bush election. So, the point you were going for is kinda moot. Again, I harken back to my Warren Ellis-esque statement about the barbary apes regarding politicians. So this is the traditional month before an election story.

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QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 03:01 PM) Nick Drake and Terry Kath are my dark horse choices, but I'll also throw Jimi in there. I think Jimi was heading off into amazing new directions so as not too be doing the Experience retread thing past its time. I don't know that the new stuff would have carried most of the fans of the earlier stuff with it, but the same can be said for theBand of Gypsies material and some of that stuff has withstood the test of time musically and socially better than a lot of the Experience stuff. Terry Kath is an interesting choice. While I was/am a big fan, I never really thought there was potential beyond some really uber popular stuff, not moving music in any direction. Jimi was the guy I thought of right away. I figured the thread would be dominated by PINHOs.

At least in this neck of the woods the greatest voting mischief is with absentee ballots. Buying votes is common enough that only the largest and most blatent abuses are fought over. We've had elections where four or five percent of the votes are absentee and 99% of them come in for one candidate. Imagine in a race with 5,000 voters than 700 or 800 are absentee and 670 vote for one hard working candidate who "got out the vote".

This country works with so many despicable characters, it's a whos who of potential dictators and other scum. The silence by the Grand Old Party tells me it's either untrue, or business as usual that both parties engage in. If this was a real story you can bet the GOP would be grabbing this story and trying to push Foley off the front pages. Shall we also start talking about the political motivation to have the story break right before elections? If one is to buy into the Foley timing, isn't this just as suspect?

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 21, 2006 -> 11:39 AM) So, are you saying that Teddy WILLING went along with a good cop/ bad cop thing with Ronnie in order to help defeat the evil empire, or that it is a good thing Teddy was a traitor because it eventually helped us in the end? Plus, apparently news ofthis has been out for a while, at least since 2004. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240644/posts I am saying it is nearly impossible to prove, there are dozens of explainations, and I have a hard time believing Russian sources. And if you believe the article, a Rep was a co-conspirator. That makes even more sense.

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Sure, Reagan was a genious, he got Ted to help him play good cop bad cop with the Russians. First off I take these things with a giant bit of scepticism. Notice they also mentioned a Rep. So many explainations. Diplomacy and war mongering at the same time, carefully orchestarted by the State Department. Someone exaggerating things to write a book and get it noticed. Ted being a commie. The entire Democratic Party as Communists sympathisers. BTW, wasn't it Reagan's group that held negotiations with the Iranians to keep the hostages until after the election? I believe there was considerable talk about arms for hostages? I place all these reports in the same light.

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