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"To be replaced by?"

Dick Gephardt. Don't laugh. I've been a lifelong Republican voter, and I did vote for Bush last go around despite some serious misgivings about his views. Those misgivings have, unfortunately, been justified.

I'm a fiscal and social conservative in the populist tradition. I have no use for a big-business minded Republican administration that does little or nothing for the cause of social conservatism. And Bush Jr has done just that - nothing.

Enter Dick Gephardt, stage left. We know who he is and what he is. In a Gephardt administration, leftist social causes will advance (as they have in the Bush Jr. administration), and deficit spending will continue (as it has in the Bush Jr. administration).

However, Dick Gephardt is a protectionist, while Bush (like Clinton before him) is a died in the wool, let's sell our souls to China while we promote NAFTA, free trader. A booming trade deficit and falling dollar has proven once again to anyone who cares to listen that free trade does not work.

Perhaps a Gephardt administration will be able to accomplish at least one thing that's positive for the United States - a return of our economic freedom.

Social conservatives should approve of the president's pro-life positions, his emphasis on faith, his dignified and non-vulgar behavior, and his emphasis on responsibility.

Therefore, I do not believe that you are a social conservative. In fact, if you are touting Gephardt, you are not a conservative at all.

You really need to read those talking points Terry hands out a little more carefully.

However, Dick Gephardt is a protectionist, while Bush (like Clinton before him) is a died in the wool, let's sell our souls to China while we promote NAFTA, free trader. A booming trade deficit and falling dollar has proven once again to anyone who cares to listen that free trade does not work.

You are on the wrong forum and in the wrong era. Huey Long is dead.

Perhaps a Gephardt administration will be able to accomplish at least one thing that's positive for the United States - a return of our economic freedom.

Perhaps, at 6 minutes to midnight on August 4, you were trying to qualify for the "stupidest post of the day."

Well, my boy, you've not only qualified, you've won the prize.

You'd stand a better chance of winning the presidency, from a standing start, than Dick Gephardt.

Too funny!