[Byron_the_Aussie]

..is your nominee going to have "no seat belt laws" in his platform?...

You've missed the point. If once-cutting edge conservatives like Freepers don't kick up a stink about rank stupidity and waste like this, at the time it happens, seat belts will be the last thing on our minds by the time Bush runs for re-election. The message sent by suppression of concern is that we'll take any statist claptrap he cares to send down the pipe because of a collective fear of Dean. I think some of the Bush boosters around here need to make up their mind. If Dean's such a non-threat, then why can't criticism of the President's liberal tendencies be aired, for fear of 'Bush or Dean'? I'd like to see some of the Libertarians and Buchanan supporters who've been hunted off FR back on here, now. This seatbelt craziness is yet another vindication of their reservations about this president. FR should be a hotbed of outrage when something as stupid as this comes from the White House.

[MEG33]

I seem to notice quite a few are still here!I worry when they seem to share Dean's views on the Iraq war.

I am amused by the cries of statist when I've lived through every kind of rationing,rent control,price controls,no cars to buy,no refrigerators to buy,no new tires available to buy,blackouts to keep from getting bombed,forced interning of the Japanese,people begging for work at the kitchen door to get food to eat and every able bodied male drafted.

The sky is not falling.We have a threat and it isn't Bush.