[sarcasm]

I live in New York City and I'm a registered Republican - your excuses don't wash.

Am I supposed to be impressed by your argument that Rush Limbaugh and Bill Clinton supported NAFTA and GATT? Do you have a mind of your own?

[Dane]

I live in New York City and I'm a registered Republican - your excuses don't wash

Gee, I don't live in New York City. I live in a semi-rural county, where demos have always had a strong hold and people know each other and in the local elections it is more voting for the person rather than the party. The d is more a formality, although the R's are trying to get a foothold. We have a Republican sheriff, who I voted for, but he ran unopposed in the Pubbie primary, while the demo primary had IIRC something like 3 candidates. In the demo primary, I voted for the most conservative person, thus helping to try to assure two good candidates in the general election. Also you wouldn't believe the dearth of Pubbie candidates on the local ballot.

But thank you for your New York City centric arrogance, anyway.

[JNB]

That is the thing with many people who support free trade, they in many cases support it because that is what they think is the "party line". As I keep on hammering, their talking points on free trade do not go beyond what Limbaugh and the WSJ editorial pages say, yet in so many threads here on FR, their debate style is as snotty as anything one would see at DU. The dogmatic free traders get so hysterical that in debats, they resort to calling people "brown shirts", thus invoking Goodwins Law.