[mmercier]

>> We can only do that to ourselves.

There are about 20 old communists in high office that are dying off, we have tolerated these people in the past and we can tolerate them in the future.

As they die off they are replaced by less pure radicals, they are diminishing in their power and scope with every election cycle.

Most of the newer Communists are easily identified as nitwits by the electorate. That does not mean they are going anywhere soon, but the damage they do is increasingly subject to public scrutiny.

This has nothing to do with free trade, as the communists here were mostly opposed to CAFTA to begin with. If the CAFTA deal was truly bad for the republic, they would have been the first to sign on; their opposition speaks louder than anything else IMO.

Free trade is always good. Always.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

CAFTA is unConstitutional and far more than about free trade.

It's managed trade, and not free market. I consider it betrayal and will have nothing to do with those who have put it forward.

I don't see myself voting republican again, at least not for anyone connected to this administration in any way.

Of course I'd never vote democrat, so I'll just be staying home.

But that means no more contributions, no more volunteering and no encouragement to others to vote for the pubs.

When you add in the North American Community crap, they all appear to be traitors, not just idiots.