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      <![CDATA[great just one more reason to choose another provider in the coming elections Beebe is really trying to pander to the Pro-life CULTS in Arkansas.going to be easy to vote against HIM  in NOV .
        
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      <![CDATA[Since we haven't cured cancer by now, then we should stop donating money and wasting energy trying to cure it. ----  Posted by: RazorbackDem 
    Razorback Dem aka &#147;peabrain&#148;: We know what causes pregnancy and we know how to cure it.
    We don&#146;t know all the causes of cancer and we don&#146;t have all the cures for it either.
    The faulty logic is yours, not ol Moose&#146;s.
        
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      <![CDATA[Tailgunner Delay is Southern Baptist. Jim Holt is a member of the Church of Jim Holt. John Boozman is an iguana, you have to hold a mirror under his nostrils to make sure he's still alive.
        
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      <![CDATA[List of Religious Affiliations of Current State Candidates: 
    Corrections or assistance in filling in blanks is greatly appreciated!
    Governor:
    Mike Beebe: Episcopalian
    Asa Hutchinson: Southern Baptist (?)
    Lt. Governor:
    Bill Halter: Catholic
    Mike Hathorn: Southern Baptist
    Jay Martin: Assemby of God
    Tim Wooldridge: Church of Christ
    Chuck Banks: ?
    Jim Holt: ?
    Doug Matayo: ? 
    Atty General:
    Robert Herzfeld: Southern Baptist
    Dustin McDaniel: Episcopalian
    Paul Suskie: Catholic
    Gunner DeLay: ?
    Secretary of State:
    Charlie Daniels: Southern Baptist
    Jim Lagrone: Southern Baptist
    Treasurer:
    Mac Campbell: Episcopalian ?
    Don House: Church of Christ
    Martha Shoffner: Presbyterian 
    I know their is a Republican candidate for Treasurer, but I have forgotten his name and he is not listed on the ArkansasGOP.org website.
    Congress District 1:
    Marion Berry: United Methodist
    Mickey Stumbough: ?
    Patrick D'Andrea: ?
    Congress District 2:
    Andy Mayberry: Missionary Baptist
    Vic Snyder: United Methodist
    Congress District 3:
    John Boozman:
    Woody Anderson: Catholic
    Congress District 4: 
    Joe Ross: ?
    Mike Ross: United Methodist
        
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      <![CDATA[Funny thing about that parental notification thing - the evidence in places where it has been enacted has had surprising results.
    The parents are just as likely to insist on the teen having an abortion over her protestations, as the teen insisting on having an abortion against the wishes of the parents. So, it is actually a wash when it comes to reducing abortions.
    Read about it here:
    http://tinyurl.com/lmu63
        
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      <![CDATA[why don't you ALL shut up about abortion.
    This issue is never going away...it is too good an election year smoke screen
    and FACE IT....you all fall right into it everytime....
    STUPID!!!!!!!
        
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      <![CDATA[I seldom like everything about the candidate who gets my vote.  If Beebe were representing just me, he would have taken a pro-choice stand.  I will probably vote for him not because I think he's the best man for the job, but because I feel strongly that Asa is not.  I cannot afford to allow any more crooks represent me.
    It would be nice if I could always vote for someone besides the lesser of two evils. 
    And it's painful for me to admit this, but it's the truth:  I agree with Jim Lendall on just about every issue I can think of.  I like him and wish he would be my next Governor.  I've never heard anyone even hint at him being crooked.  
    I really would love to see a strong third party.  I liked the idea of public funding for elections, because the price tag for any candidacy is mindnumbingly high.  I hate the thought of my tax dollars going to support some KKK candidate or a Jim Holt.  But if the system could be more fair and less rife with corruption it would suit me a lot better.   
    The unwanted pregnancy is one of human life's saddest products.  Parents...talk to your kids.  Make sure they know you love them.   
    Parents, if you can establish trust and a dialog with your kids and teach them the risks and consequences of sex so that they avoid pregnancy, please do that within your family.
    Parents, if you can use your religion to keep your kids from getting pregnant or causing a pregancy, please do that within your family. 
    Frankly, I think more public energy and resources should go toward preventing unwanted pregnancies in the first place; but when one does occur, I think it's only the business of those involved and their families and their doctors and their personal  choice (or not) of a higher being.
    In the case of the unwanted pregnancy caused by rape, it should not remain just a family matter.
        
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      <![CDATA[I have a box of clothes in my trunk for good will.  They have been in there for a couple of months.  I am 29 years old, intelligent, and fully aware of where to find goodwill.  I mostly just don't feel like it.
    Most teenage girls and boys may vaguely know where to get condoms, but are too embarrassed/lazy/unmotivated to go get them.  Add to that all the stupid abstinence classes that basically tell kids that condoms don't really work that well, and moose's argument is more ignorant than anyone could initially imagine.
        
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      <![CDATA[""If not for Nader" is a myth the Democrats use to explain away their defeat in 2000. What they fail to realize is that many of the Nader voters probably would not have voted at all, but they finally felt that they had a choice."
    This is wrong, Jim. You would have nailed it if you had just said that blaming Nader for the loss is a weak cop-out. Gore didn't even carry his home state. But the fact is that Gore didn't need "most" of Nader's votes (you know, the ones you said wouldn't have gone to Gore in the first place) to unquestionably beat W. He only needed the few Nader votes that would have gone to Gore. Did you forget how close that election was? The "If not for Nader" excuse is exactly that - an excuse. But it's most certainly NOT a myth.
        
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      <![CDATA[Beebe is pro-choice and I am anti-Beebe.
        
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      <![CDATA[Beebe is an example of what's wrong with the Democratic Party...mind-numbing fence straddling.
    You may get elected using these I-stand-squarely-for-nothing statements; but you will have left everything resembling personal integrity along the wayside.
    I wish the Green Party could break through the good-old-boy system and offer us a viable alternative to the monolithic Dems/Repubs.
        
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      <![CDATA[hugh man- I appreciate you asking a legitimate question rather than attacking based on assumption.
    I have worked with appr. 100 hundred women in the 4 different states I have resided.
    I would venture to say that is more actual time spent than other posters.
        
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      <![CDATA[Moose:
    Roughly, how much is a ton, in hours?
        
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      <![CDATA[RazorbackDem- Your ludicrious analogy does not make my point irrelevant. 
    And widj- you are out of touch with reality. Both of you assume I do not care and would leave a woman high and dry, both are terrible assumptions.
    How much time have either of you spent talking with women dealing with unwanted pregnancies? I have spent a ton through volunteer work. The admission that "I knew better" is so common place. It is frustrating to see intelligent women in that situation.
        
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      <![CDATA[Moose, by your logic, pregnancy (or its avoidance) is entirely the woman's responsibility.  Hello?  Do you just bang them and say "Ta-ta"?
    Mothers, don't let your daughters date Moose.  In fact, shoot him, if you get the chance.  Idiot.
        
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      <![CDATA[where is tommy robinson with his chainsaw?!?!?!
        
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      <![CDATA[Great idea DBI.  Of course, we would have to fund Rod Bryan as well.  Since that one might not bother you, I'll point out that with a promise of public funding Jim Holt might have run for Governor.  No telling how attractive he could make himself with slick ads.  And how about Gunner?  He'd get the money, too.
    DBI, I think you're old enough to remember Ralph Forbes.  Wouldn't those ads be a hoot?!!!  (I can see the kkk.org link on the screen crawl now.)
    Getting the picture?
    The closest thing we have to public funding is the national presidential system.  That allowed Pat Buchannan to get the Reform Party money when he couldn't get 2% of the Republican primary vote.
    Once again, the free market is flawed but much superior to government control.
        
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      <![CDATA[Moose - 
    Let's continue your logic.  With doctors and other groups trying to cure cancer over the past decades and we STILL haven't cured cancer - when will we?
    Since we haven't cured cancer by now, then we should stop donating money and wasting energy trying to cure it.  
    And a lot of times, she can't get preventions handed to her for no cost, and there are still many women in this country and others that are not fully educated on reproduction.
    Thank you for letting me prove you wrong...
        
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      <![CDATA[Clarification needed- With NOW and several other organizations educating us over the past decade and we STILL haven't slowed up unwanted pregnancies- When will we?
    Let's be frank-Any woman today is fully educated on reproduction and how to prevent it. She can get the preventions handed to her for no cost. Abortions can be done away with except that organizations like NOW still need victims to further their cause.
    Thank you for the soap box moment......
        
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      <![CDATA["If not for Nader" is a myth the Democrats use to explain away their defeat in 2000.  What they fail to realize is that many of the Nader voters probably would not have voted at all, but they finally felt that they had a choice.
      If the Democratic Party had genuine candidates with unambiguous stands on issues, voters would not be compelled to seek alternative candidates or, lacking alternatives, stay home on election day.
    The Demo Platform sounds good but obviously the party's candidates can't read.    Mr. Beebe, for instance, is ambivalent about women's rights, the environment, labor laws, tax reform, and many other planks of the platform.  In fact, he sounds more like a timid Republican.  Is it any wonder why the U.S. has such a dismal voter turnout?
    I realize that my chance of finishing better than second in this Governor's race is remote.   I am hoping that we gather enough votes so that the Green Party can field candidates at every level in this state for the next election, without have to go through the expensive and unnecessarily burdensome petition effort.
    Voters want and are entitled to choices at every level of government.  They are tired of TweedleDee/TweedleDum elections, where the party labels are different but the candidates' stands are identical.
    Jim Lendall
        
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      <![CDATA[I have a feeling this is going to be a very unpopular post.
    Many time and time again complain about the 2 party system in American politics, and how it excludes fringe candidates like Mr. Liendall from ever winning a major office.  However, people tend to forget how good for democracy a 2 party system is.  In countries in which there are many viable parties, the government is contingent on very weak coalitions in order to remain stable.  As soon as one of these coalitions breaks down, the government fails, nothing is ever passed, and they must wait until new elections are held to have an effective government.
    In situations where there are 3 viable parties, representing the left, middle, and right, something interesting happens.  The parties on the left and right don't compete with each other - they know that they will never woo each others voters.  Instead, they team up and take down the party in the middle.  This leaves to very ideologically opposed parties far from the center.  After this happens, then they basically keep out-extreming one another to get elected, and that's how governments such as Hitler's Nazi Germany come into power.
    Third parties can do a lot of good.  A lot of times if they become strong enough then they'll become incorporated into one of the bigger parties (see the prohibition party).  However, I'm don't lose sleep at nights knowing that 3rd parties aren't going to win a race for Senator, Governor, or President ever in our system.
        
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      <![CDATA[RE: ...believes this is a decision between a woman, her doctor and God.&#148; That's the only statement made here that is correct. It is certainly nothing  that a man wearing a legislative name plate should be mandating to women period. 
    Beebe stating that is no surprise, if you think Hutchinson isn't even more radical in his anti abortion views you are naive. 
    I like MB, I don't like the anti choice stance. They all do that to get the vote, problem is the right wing will NEVER vote for them. 
    Personally, I am through supporting anti choice candidates. This time I will vote for MB because the alternative is to vote for the party of pedophiles. Not gonna happen.
        
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      <![CDATA[Yeah, as one of those who voted for Nader in 2000 and have regretted it ever since, I'd dearly love to cast my vote for Jim Lendall for Governor of the state of Arkansas.
    But alas, it would take a series of polls showing that Jim has a fighting chance before I make the mistake I did in 2000. A mistake that has killed multiple thousands and brought misery to the world.
    Then again a miserable Governor can't wreak the havoc a miserable President can, but still....I can't risk helping to elect Asa! as our new Gov.
    Damn it  why must life be so hard and politics so slippery?  Since in most cases the person with the most money wins, it means that the Jim Lendalls of the world get nowhere. And we, the people wind up with the most popular cell phone salesmen in the land as our leaders. Look around.....look where it's got us.
     If tax payers funded this election and Lendall, Beebe and Hutchinson got an equal amount of money, and equal amount of media coverage and were to be elected on what comes out of their mouths instead of the sheer number of Dallas produced TV ads......talk about your level playing field. Talk about getting a Governor that might pull our asses out of 49th place!
    If our elected officials worked full time for us, instead of working 80% of the time for future campaign funds, we might have us a hell of a state. And imagine the fat cats not being able to buy off every candidate.  Imagine if the winner was beholden to the voters and not to special interests they've whored themselves out to.
    With tax payer funded-everyone-is-equal elections we'd get the smartest person and we'd truly save more than we paid. 
    We're currently living in the Bush-Cheney De-constructed Non-United States of America, they'll never be a better time to make big changes and cure the way we've done political business forever, cure what has gone so very wrong and brought us to the mess we're in today.
    Thank you Jim Lendall for your honest answer. I hope you astound the state by coming within striking distance. At that time I'll rethink my vote.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jim,
    I agree with your viewpoint on choice. However, I think a vote for you would be a vote for Asa! Harken back to those who voter for Nader in 2000. Had they voted for Gore, we wouldn't be in Iraq, have two ultra right-wingers on the Supreme Court or be paying $3 a gallon for gas.
        
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      <![CDATA[Craghead (that's not how it's spelled, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and overlook the double-post), you might as well vote on the side of your pocketbook, then, because your 'for life' position is too full of holes.  That much is apparent by the whole 'exception' debate.  No government should have the right to compel a woman to carry an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy to term, anymore than it should be able to compel everyone to marry and produce children.  On the face of it, it leaves the men (necessary to the equation) scot-free of responsibility or threat to their own life.  Pregnancy and childbirth are a big deal to any woman.  Men are practically just bystanders, by societal standards, unless there is a legal (yes, LEGAL, not ecclesiastical) contract regarding the outcome and future of the issue (children).
    Honey, there will always be plenty of babies.  What there won't always be is a societal and familial structure to nurture them into responsible adulthood.  If you think Republicans are sincerely interested in providing that, you have fallen victim to their two-faced lies.
    It sure looks like Beebe was trying to straddle a precarious fence.  It ain't easy being a candidate for votes, especially on a campaign trail full of so many potholes.  As far as I can see, the best thing Beebe has going for him so far is that he is not Republican.  We're pretty much stuck with doing *something* different.  Might as well be Beebe at this point.  Any alternatives give me morning sickness.
        
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