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But he'd be BETTER than Wellstone, right? Wrong!

At least we KNOW that Wellstone will trash the Constitution in plain sight.

No, you're wrong. As long as he votes to elect a Republican leadership in the Senate, things like ANWR drilling and judicial appointments that would pass in the full Senate can't be held from a vote by Tommy Daschle. You've gotta look at the big picture.

I've SEEN the "Big Picture" and it looks like THIS:

CALL GEPHARDT/DASCHLE UNREALTY, EXCLUSIVE AGENTS

THANKS BUT NO THANKS!

At least Dasshole ADMITS he's a freaking statist. Lott's undercover -- until (with precious few exceptions) it's time to vote!

The one thing that amazes me on this site is the belief by some that the conservative position is the majority position. Mostly people tend to believe it could be the majority position if the right candidate ran, or if it weren't for the media or RINOs or etc, etc.

They really don't have a clue. Roughly 2/3 of the public has firm views. They have made up their minds and do not change them. This group is nearly equally split between the left and the right. There are about a 1/3 of the population that is never sure. Sometimes it will go left and sometimes it will go right.

When a party restricts itself to its base it will be in a minority party. The "base only" party will be reduced to crying as the other side works its will. In some nations both the left and right restrict themselves to just their base. That nation then develops five or six parties. And all governemnts in that nation are coalitions of a major party and some of the minor parties. In that situation the minor party always has more influence than its numbers represent. For the Rino and Dino haters that is the worst of all worlds. Many of Rino and Dino haters try to make ours a 3 or 4 party system. They never figure out that their splinter right or left party would never get much power in a government based on coaltions. They are too small. It is the centerist parties that have a 1/3 of the public as potential members that get the clout in the Multi Party system. As you can see in a 2 party or a 5 or 6 party system the center tends to prevail. But in our two party system the center is an instrument the major parties use to enact their goals. In the multiparty system it is the center parties that use the right and left to enact their centerist goals. Such a system like those in Italy and France are RINO and DINO paradise.

This nation now and for all of the last 140 years has been roughly 1/3 left, 1/3 right and 1/3 in the middle. Those in the middle who run for office are what we call RINOs and DINOs.

When Republicans drive RINOs out they leave the party to become DINOs and take their political power with them. The Democrat party gets them by default. Then the Democrts thanks to its Dino buddies have a veto proof house and senate. It was Barry Goldwaters greatest accomplishment. In my BRAIN I knew Barry would elect a lot of DINOs ... and he did.

If a party with most of the center wins the presidency too, they have a filibuster proof senate. That party then can do anything it wants to do. When the party leadership takes control they implement the parties core beliefs. It was what LBJ did after Goldwater drove all the RINOs into LBJ's camp. It let LBJ do the "Great Society". LBJ had to have Barry's help to do it. And Barry did what it took to give LBJ the support he needed... LBJ had all the left. Barry gave him all the center.

To win control a party must keep its base and get over half the middle. If the Republicans have more RINOs than the Democrats have DINOs the Republican agenda prevails. If the Democrats have more DINOs than the Repulicans have RINOs the Democrat agenda prevails. Those that demand the defeat of RINOs are doing all they can to enact the leftist agenda. They are the most valuable asset the left has.

One of the most effective tactics in politics in the negative campaign. Negative campaigns are not about getting votes for your candidate. They are about getting the other side's base to not vote for their candidate. Thus is you can get the right to vote against a Rino or not vote at all, you can elect a very liberal candidate. If you can force the Republicans to nominate a right wing candidate so right wing he can't get the center voters, you elect the left candidate.

Wellstone has just one strategy. That is to cost the Republican candidtate his base. He knows the Republican candidate has enough center to defeat him. But if the Rupublican base can be made to sit on its hands or protest vote then Wellestone can prevail.

In politics it is called using wedge issues. The right has a very large number of wedgeable members. The left really enjoys driving the wedge to make them do things counter productive to their goals.

When you talk to people who fall for negative campaigning,they always tell you that when the right guy comes along to sell the right views, his side will prevail.

You keep saying to yourself that people can't be that dumb.... but experience prooves that they are.