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Comments in article. I also think this would diminish the likelihood that Hillary! will be nominated by the Democrats in 2008. Once Kerry has crashed and burned over defects that should have been anticipated, it is more possible that when push comes to shove, the Democrats will choose someone with greater substance and integrity than Hillary!
1 posted on 09/11/2004 1:54:00 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
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Both the Demos and the Repubs have been nominating weak and defective candidate for some time now. I feel poorly in this election having to argue that my candidate is significantly less defective than your candidate in this election.

Maybe a different nominating process will do the trick. Best of luck to you.

44 posted on 09/11/2004 4:06:39 PM PDT by FreedomSurge
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To be honest with you, I don't even like the idea of government getting involved with political parties at all.

What the GOP or the democratic party does internally, is what they do. They should set there own primaries, states and dates, without any kind of implicit help or interference from the government. I'd much rather roll back then push into the process.

48 posted on 09/11/2004 5:53:51 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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For '08 we need to run Bill Owens.


49 posted on 09/11/2004 6:19:03 PM PDT by RockinRight (Vote early, vote often)
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To: Congressman Billybob; GoLightly

GoLightly said: "I think the first step to putting the MSM in it's proper place (the ash heap of history). . . ."

Internet communications ceem to be doing that already, to a degree. Witness the CBS fiasco. The Far Left's cause relies on suppression of truth and control over the lives of citizens.

True "freedom of the press" must be thought of today in the terms of today's technology. At the time of the founding, "printing" provided the primary means of communicating ideas (along with the pulpit, the home, the school, etc.). In recent decades, other means came to dominate the ability to circulate ideas.

The Founders would love the rapidity with which ideas can circulate now; and the Far Left, with its "control" mentality must deal with the fact that it can no longer CONTROL what citizens know or think by managing the news on three major networks and through "think tanks" and other news outlets.

Oh, Divine Providence, have you once again enabled liberty to prevail over tyranny?


52 posted on 09/12/2004 8:40:58 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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Not too sure about this idea; NATIONAL anything scares the dickens out of me as opposed to States. I did think this part was well-thought out though, and I like it:

"Another public advantage concerns issues. If the candidates are not buttoned up before the Conventions, then the issues and party platforms are probably not buttoned up either. When was the last time you recall seeing a debate on any platform point at a Convention? And yet, choosing between policy choices on subjects from war and peace to social security are the very essence of modern American politics. "


55 posted on 09/12/2004 6:51:49 PM PDT by streetpreacher (Bush did not lead this country into an unjust war; Kerry led this country out of a just war.)
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I'm not reading it ... too much to do for this election 'aint over till its over' .... pls repost mid-november!


58 posted on 09/12/2004 9:00:22 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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Some expect a stunt with Kerry coming apart. Edwards can move on for personal reasons and to help others. Hillary can swoop in, basking in the glow of concern for her husband who is now loved by Americans like never before after a recent close call. The country can have both Clinton's again.
60 posted on 09/13/2004 10:33:56 AM PDT by alrea (Help Wanted: New Jersey Director, Homeland Security. Must be willing performer, and good looking.)
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There is nothing in the Constitution to support the government stepping in and mandating who the major parties may nominate and how they nominate them. Sorry, but this is a party and state issue.

I also think this would diminish the likelihood that Hillary! will be nominated by the Democrats in 2008.

This could also have greatly diminished the chance of Bush being nominated in 2000. Ever think of that?

61 posted on 09/13/2004 10:46:09 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
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I think it is most likely our votes would be meaningless as the pols would fix the ticket in the back rooms before a brokered convention opened.

To have any hope of avoiding establishment control, the conventions would have to begin within a week, at most, of the primary, preferably the next day.

I would modestly suggest that all future conventions be held in Las Vegas.

These days every convention makes hundreds of thousands of enemies for the party holding it, due to the disruption of life in their city.
Parties either pick a city in a state so solidly theirs they can afford to lose the votes, or in one they are certainly going to lose, so that a few more votes don't matter.

Las Vegas is a city devoted to conventions. The casinos already have more security than either convention this year could have dreamed of, and use it smoothly enough not to irritate the crowds.

There are enough Hotel Rooms, Entertainment and large meeting spaces to hold both conventions at once, which should be entertaining in itself.

So9

62 posted on 09/13/2004 11:14:54 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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