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To: FerdieMurphy

All I can say, is put all that stuff in your third party plank. You'll feel better but I can say without too much risk of being wrong that you'll be hard pressed to get anyone elected on that platform. Sorry but those "principles" just ain't mainstream. Now if your intent is to push the general public in that direction so those "principles" become mainstream, fine. You still need to get at least one individual elected that adheres to your plank. However, if your intent is to push one of the existing political parties in the direction of your "principles", well good luck to you but I don't think a third party suits that purpose either. Sorry that's the problem with a "big tent" party...you have to learn to get along and work with people who don't exactly have the exact same "principles" as you do. If you don't want to do that...well start your little tent party. It's not like that hasn't been done before too.


186 posted on 05/18/2006 9:46:39 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus
Sorry that's the problem with a "big tent" party...

I feel that it galls you as much as it does me and others. The tent is getting all out of shape due to the socialists among us and groups like the Log Cabin Republicans. (I wish they'd just take their logs and move on.)

189 posted on 05/18/2006 9:56:29 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy (For English, Press One. (Tookie, you won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Oh, too late.))
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To: rhombus
Sorry that's the problem with a "big tent" party...you have to learn to get along and work with people who don't exactly have the exact same "principles" as you do.

When your circus has a big tent, you can fit a lot of clowns inside.

192 posted on 05/18/2006 11:04:40 AM PDT by Protagoras ("A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action"... Tony Robbins)
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