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I'm so sick of these a$$hols trying to tear down our President. I am a political consultant, and I admit that YES this is being done to avoid giving percentage points in key states among women to John F. Kerry in Nov 2004...and that it is an understandable calculation on the part of Rove. That's politics. It is also true that it will be shot down in Congress as part of the plan. I understand people are angry about it. But to advocate leaving the ballot space blank or voting for some other party for President makes you no better than the Libertarians, who cost us two Senate seats last cycle.

We all understand what this is, and our energy shouldn't have to be spent on attacks against our own side by those with dubious agendas.

Think at what liberal democrats had to put up with avec Clinton. Clinton was pro death penalty, pro Nafta/Gatt... workfare, signed welfare reform. Democrats held their noses and voted for him though, because they knew that generally overall he was a liberal, and the positives outweighed the negatives.

Then ya have the crowd here who are getting 95% of what they want. Ban on federal funding for overseas abortion, conservative judges (when the senate doesn't fillibuster), tax cuts, strong foreign policy, etc... etc... but he isn't politically pure enough.

Thinking like that is what gave us George W. Bush as president. It is called the Green voters in Florida. Michael Moore and Phil Donahue decided Gore wasn't pure enough for them, so they stumped for Nader in Florida. Now democrats hate them for it.