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1 posted on 02/11/2008 12:40:36 AM PST by incindiary
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2 posted on 02/11/2008 12:45:04 AM PST by incindiary
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3 posted on 02/11/2008 12:53:50 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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“How is it that we find ourselves in this sorry predicament?”

It’s called Iowa, and it sucks.


5 posted on 02/11/2008 12:55:22 AM PST by Moral Hazard (This election mess is Iowa's fault. From 2012 on make them vote last (or not at all).)
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Do we have a one-party system masquerading as two?

Personally I believe so. In fact, I've come to call it the "status quo" party.

It's the old "good cop / bad cop" game being played masterfully on the entire nation. All the while we sheep are being sheared regularly.

6 posted on 02/11/2008 12:58:31 AM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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A sufficient explanation is human nature (people judge themselves by their intentions and others by their actions) and the historically unique modern system of propaganda.

Since “conspiracy” can explain anything it can explain nothing.


7 posted on 02/11/2008 12:59:34 AM PST by Iris7 ("Do not live lies!" ...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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The people are still asleep.
They believe whatever the MSM tells them, in preference to what their own eyes tell them.


9 posted on 02/11/2008 1:07:00 AM PST by devere
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This post, by joanie-f, is an excellent answer to the question.
12 posted on 02/11/2008 1:17:44 AM PST by TigersEye (I'm a maverick. I'm sticking with conservatism.)
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The Queen of Hearts is in with his nibs the Jack of Spades..
Off with all the republicans heads.. even the Arizona Joker..
13 posted on 02/11/2008 1:26:05 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY
14 posted on 02/11/2008 1:26:48 AM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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15 posted on 02/11/2008 1:30:05 AM PST by DoughtyOne (That's right McStain, you'll get my vote when you peel it from my cold dead fingers.)
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Do we have a one-party system masquerading as two?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVodI85NLMQ

You can see the whole speech here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw6zhI

I have both books!


17 posted on 02/11/2008 1:33:56 AM PST by restornu (People do your own home work don't reley on the media!)
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It isn't really a "conspiracy", but the two parties in government have figured out that part of the pie is better than none at all. So they have colluded to take the power and authority away from the citizenry themselves and vest it in the government, whoever is in charge.

This is why all government eventually leads to tyranny, and why the founders never wanted anyone to have a vote if they didn't pay taxes.

They designed a brilliant system of checks and balances, and over time we let the lawyers erode it away. Now we're subjects again, not citizens. We've traded our one tyrant 300 miles away for 3,000 tyrants, one mile away. And I'm afraid the only way we're going to get rid of the new tyrants, is the same way we got rid of the last one.

18 posted on 02/11/2008 1:34:16 AM PST by tcostell (MOLON LABE)
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Just can’t get into Ron Paul but those history books are interesting!


20 posted on 02/11/2008 1:37:45 AM PST by restornu (People do your own home work don't reley on the media!)
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I found it a bit interesting, and I would have stayed to listen had there been more.

However, don’t you think it might have been more honest to have said up front that........ this was a video in support of Ron Paul??


21 posted on 02/11/2008 1:41:08 AM PST by Gator113 (America just traded away the possibility of a dream, for what is certain to be a nightmare.)
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We had the chance to rally behind Romney and we blew it. Nothing more to it than that.


26 posted on 02/11/2008 2:04:07 AM PST by Dragonspirit (Mitt basher in 2012: What happened? I thought bashing Romney would move the party rightward? Oh no!)
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The answer is easy, and something I have long tried to point out. Conservatives never...NEVER groom potential candidates. We had Reagan but no viable >conservative< replacements in the pipelne.

That is because conservatives seem to tend to not worry much about local, state and congressional elections and focus instead on the Presidency.

This fight is going to be long and hard, and until we begin outing RINO's and replaceing them with conservative candidates on all levels, we will face situations like this.

prisoner6

28 posted on 02/11/2008 2:49:25 AM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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A small vanity post of mine you might enjoy...The Takeover
31 posted on 02/11/2008 3:04:23 AM PST by philman_36
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I've heard many people ask why the candidates for President are so mediocre, and I've thought the same thing.

In fact, most of the Presidents have been mediocre men. There aren't many of them who could successfully run a major business. I wouldn't hire either Slick Willy or Dubya to fill an important position in a major company. Would you?

Maybe, the answer is that the American Presidency isn't really as important as most people think it is. How many Presidents actually have much effect on the vast federal government bureaucracy while they are in office?

If the Presidency really was an important position, the Presidents that we've had would have done more damage to the USA than they have done.

Maybe, the really important people are private business leaders and career bureaucrats.

Perhaps, the best strategy to minimize the damage the Rats, the GOP and the mediocre men who become President can do is to put a different party in the White House every four years. If FDR had only been President for 4 years, the significant damage that he was able to do to the US could have been minimized.

Of course, this same argument could be applied even more so to the Senate, which is composed mostly of truly mediiocre people.

36 posted on 02/11/2008 3:31:54 AM PST by Rum Tum Tugger
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We are to blame period.

The electorate contains the power to vote for responsible public servants and hold their feet to the fire concerning: Legislation, execution and judicial appointments.

Instead the electorate gave up the “car keys” and let the State/Federal bureaucracies assume control.

“The people” have become addicted to public money and “feel good” regulations. We have simply dropped the ball.

37 posted on 02/11/2008 3:45:03 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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Too many litmus tests for candidates.


39 posted on 02/11/2008 4:01:17 AM PST by durasell (!)
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