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Max, are you searching for a boyfriend there in SF?

"BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - A town petition making President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest for crimes against the Constitution has triggered a barrage of criticism from people who say residents are "wackjobs" and "nuts." . . . "

Ah, the dulcet tones of wise and reasoned "modern" Republicans aka Busheviks. Terrorized by Bush/Cheney . . . now terrified of having to admit how gullible they were and how badly led astray. The others venting their last imprecations and calumny before creeping back under the rocks and into the shadows until another opportunity to attempt control or profit by spreading fear and terror arises.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving group. 355 days to go.

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I have a feeling Obama will be the surprise "winner" of Benton County.

Ralph Nader has started up an exploratory committee for a Presidential race this year. (click on blue)

The Democrats have blamed him for their loss in 2000 when he ran as the Green Party candidate, but there were quite a few other factors - a lackluster campaign effort by the Democrats, George's brother, a partisan Supreme Court, and Clinton's "cigar." Those had much more of a negative influence on the outcome than Nader. Nader lost many friends in the Green Party in 2004, when he ran as an independent, deeply splitting the Green vote, setting ballot access efforts back a decade, and creating a rancorous schism (pro- and anti-Nader) in the Party that persists today.

I don't see him as much of a factor in the 2008 election as an independent, unless the Republicans pour many millions of dollars into his campaign. Considering the divisions in the Green Party, I doubt Nader will be the Green Party candidate. I wonder if Kucinich would be interested?

The two major parties are so tied to their corporate masters that it's difficult to imagine change from inside those parties. (One Republican commenter, lamented the Republican Party's slide over the last decade towards becoming "Democrat-lite.") The only hope for progressives over the next few presidential elections is the slow building of a third party from the ground up - achieving ballot access, electing local Green candidates, and getting the message out that third party voting is not illegal.

"Max, are you searching for a boyfriend there in SF?" posted by: BlackBerry

What if he is? What difference would it make to anyone (except to Mrs. Brantley, of course)?

One Republican commenter, lamented the Republican Party's slide over the last decade towards becoming "Democrat-lite
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I just have to laugh at these lying GOPers.. Democrat-lite my ***.. Fascist medium rare.. would be much more accurate.

As for the DemaPryor-Ross party.... I say run Nader run!

A PBS Independent Lens episode on Nader last month was very good, imo. (at my name)

Ralph Nader - An Unreasonable Man

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

"The Democratic Party was looking for a scapegoat, and I think effectively tried to paint, and did paint, Ralph Nader as the reason why they were not in office, not the fact that ten million more Democrats voted for George Bush than voted for Ralph Nader.

One other point the show revealed to me was a lot of wealthy so called Dems offered Ralph a lot of money to drop out. He didn't accept the bribes.

"Max, are you searching for a boyfriend there in SF?" posted by: BlackBerry

What if he is? What difference would it make to anyone (except to Mrs. Brantley, of course)?<<

Some of these guys on here are interested in nothing but other guys' sex lives.
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"I have a feeling Obama will be the surprise "winner" of Benton County." Red

I would put my money on Ron Paul walking away with it. Early voting in Ark usually tells us
nothing of outcomes. But there are many young people on Bentonville-Rogers who may be
inspired by Obama but not enough to capture a majority. I just can't see folks in Jesusland
voting for a black man with a Muslim-African name. However I would love to be surprised.

Something killed off the dinosaurs. Something caused the Whigs to go away. I can personally think of 4859 reasons the Republican Party should slough off and disappear like dead skin on a leper. No political group this side of the goose-steppers in 1940s Germany have brought more misery to a population. With the charm of Eddie Haskell, the morals of Jack the Ripper, the honesty of the snake in the Garden of Eden, and the sense of fair play of the Unibomber, it's a wonder there isn't a bounty on them.

Like bringing electricity to West Texas 50 years after Edison invented the light bulb, so super late in the game it's possible the people of Benton County may be moving off the R's. I noted that after Karl Rove wiped out Robbyn Tumey, her replacement was a Democrat who switched into Republican clothing like Clark Kent in a phone booth. Where were all the real Benton County Republicans then?

I hope this kind of enlightenment will rub off on the Arkansas Democrats and we'll toss Democrat-NOT-SINCE-THE-MOMENT-HE-TOOK-OFFICE Mark Pryor in November.