It's the DYNASTY thing. It hasn't anything at all to do with Katherine Harris ( whom I never mentioned ),nor the Shavio case, or anything else. Besides all of the screaming, from the Dems, about "stolen election", as soon as President Bush won the election in '00, the tortured wailing about THE BUSH DYNASTY/WE DON'T HAVE KINGS IN AMERICA garbage began.
"POOF" = exploded, went away, disappeared, vanished, were ended, gone, finished, done,over.
This and the rest of your post I S = B S !!!
If the W doesn't nominate a conservative in the vein of Thomas or Scalia, I am done voting for Republicans period. End of story. Even Scalia is too weak for my tastes, with his respect for past decisions outweighing his desire to be "constitutional". But I would settle for that if I had to.
Gonzales would be the last straw for me. People can say what they want about his past abortion rulings being dictated by the state laws of Texas. But his affirmative action stance was fully chosen by him and reflects either a liberal mindset or an unprincipled conservatism. Both are unacceptable.
Don't know about Republican 'dynasties', but it is interesting that since the 1952 Presidential Election, there has always been a "Nixon", "Bush" or "Dole" on the Republican ticket, with the exception of the 1964 'Goldwater/Miller' duo.
If either Jeb Bush or Elizabeth Dole would be on the Republican ticket in 2008, then the 'streak' would continue...
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