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Stone Tells Undecided Voters to Stay Home
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Posted on 10/18/2004 3:40:49 PM PDT by Hi Heels

Stone Tells Undecided Voters to Stay Home

Mon Oct 18, 8:07 AM ET Entertainment - AP

SAN FRANCISCO - "South Park" co-creator Matt Stone has a message for all you undecided voters.

"Stay home," said Stone. "It doesn't matter who you're gonna vote for. If you really don't know who you're gonna vote for, or are uninformed, or haven't really thought about it? Just stay home."

Stone and Trey Parker have teamed up for the puppet parody "Team America: World Police," which debuted in third place at the box office this weekend with $12.3 million. A parody of 1980s action movies, the film ridicules both Democrats and Republicans.

In person, Stone has little patience for those on the political fence.

"If you really don't know or you're just going to vote for George Bush (news - web sites) because he's already in office, or you're gonna vote for John Kerry (news - web sites) because he's on the cover of Rolling Stone, don't do that. That's lame. Just stay home. That's all we ever said," Stone told the San Francisco Chronicle in Sunday's editions.


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To: finallyatexan
If I take the time to educate myself on the issues and then vote on that information and some illinformed undecided comes along and just flips a coin and cancels out my vote you better believe I want that moron to stay home and not vote at all.

I hear you. (/Texan) :-)

Nothing more thrilling than knowing your informed vote counts just as much as a bused-in drugged-out brain-dead Dem punch.

41 posted on 10/18/2004 4:26:41 PM PDT by stands2reason
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To: Hi Heels

I think I agree with him. I don't want my vote cancelled out by some idiot who's completely uninformed and votes by flipping a coin.


42 posted on 10/18/2004 4:26:47 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Hi Heels
I've been working precincts trying to talk them into voting for Bush.

Go for it.

43 posted on 10/18/2004 4:28:25 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Hi Heels

Well said Matt Stone.

Way too many people think that being an American means living in America...that's not the case.

Being an American means being informed enough to participate in the American system of government, it carries a great deal of responsibilities and duties.

Being an American means being involved in America, so if you haven't taken the time to actually educate yourself sufficiently to have reached a decision at this stage of the game...stay home, don't go "Christmas tree" a ballot.

That's an insult to all who have given their all to make sure you have a ballot at all.


44 posted on 10/18/2004 4:32:45 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: buccaneer81
many of my chilean friends actually flip a coin to decide who to vote for... so much for mandatory voting.
45 posted on 10/18/2004 4:34:04 PM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: Hi Heels

The lazy uninterested non-voter has been around since George Washington was elected. It is part of the way that the system marginalizes the uninformed. The problem we see recently is that the left has become quite successful at motivating this group (Republicans will cut SS, disenfranchise you, intimidate you, etc).


46 posted on 10/18/2004 4:58:35 PM PDT by SoCal_Republican
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To: flashbunny

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken


47 posted on 10/18/2004 5:00:23 PM PDT by The Loan Arranger (At least Jane Fonda "apologized".)
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To: The Loan Arranger

Ha!


48 posted on 10/18/2004 5:09:15 PM PDT by Mac017 (NZer)
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