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To: dcwusmc; nopardons
"And, given the stuff Dubya supports and calls for, just what would be the difference between him and Dean? Please be specific.

Dubya has, to quote a good number of FR posters, taken all the issues the Dems would raise off the table by out-liberalling the libs. He has scarcely even ACKNOWLEDGED the Conservative base, let alone pursued ANY of their issues and concerns, to the point that, IMO, he's a one-termer.

Oh, and good riddance. At least when a Dem has the helm, people like you will rightly oppose his policies. Dubya just gets pass after pass. It's disgusting."

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Here is an excerpt from an article totally appropriate for your comment:

Uninformed voters are ruining politics

The ignorance of the typical American when it comes to politics is often staggering.

This ignorance is the real reason special interest groups and demagogues have the success they do (though it's a wonder they don't have more). For example, we are constantly told by extreme left-wing groups and more than a few rightwing groups that there's no difference between the political parties.

As anyone who pays attention to politics knows, this is monumental nonsense on stilts; informed people understand that a Dean administration will be very different from a Bush administration.

But if you get much of your news from late-night comics - as is the case with nearly half of young voters, according to the Pew Research Center - it makes complete sense that you'd think there's no difference between the parties, in much the same way people who don't understand physics think protons and electrons are pretty much the same thing.

But Americans don't like being told they're the problem. So when they eventually tune into politics they tend to blame the candidates, as if it's the actors' fault you don't understand the play when you arrive for the last five minutes.

271 posted on 12/27/2003 10:28:00 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
How special. You posted that to me.

Now, please HONESTLY tell me:
1. Has NON-anti-terrorist spending gone up or down under Bush?
2. Has the SIZE of government increased or decreased under Bush?
3. Would you have been so complacent as to be happy with a burgeoning FedGov under, say, Prez AGore or HilLIARy? Or would you be screaming from the rooftops as you did under Billy BentPecker?
4. Just exactly HOW has Bush made ANY strides toward reducing FedGov to its Constitutional limits? ANY progress whatsoever? Where has FedGov actually SHRUNK under Bush?

No, your cutesy little article is so full of male bovine excrement as to be utterly laughable. The SOLE difference between your Pubbies and the Rats these days is the SPEED with which we are headed toward socialist nirvana. That's it and that's all. It's the "Ordered Liberty" that I have heard so much about, with FedGov FedGoons giving the orders and NEITHER half of the ruling party changing course from that direction by so much as one degree off heading. And you and yours have YET to point out any MEANINGFUL differences. I'd say you lose, but the sad fact is that the Country and the Constitution BOTH lose along with you.
397 posted on 12/28/2003 10:39:56 AM PST by dcwusmc ("The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for hims)
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