"Annoy a liberal. Work hard and smile." anonymous
Posted on 11/02/2006 11:55:00 AM PST by restornu
...and drag two other pubbie voters with you to the polls....
I had a Michael Steele recorded call this week AND I was polled by the Maryland Republican Committee too.
First time ever for either.
Hope they don't keep you there.. {;0)
Where do you work?
Winning Small
WISDOM OF THE FOUNDERS:
Majorities in Congress aren’t formed by the national zeitgeist, as Mr. Rove cheerfully points out. They are built one race at a time. And in dozens of close contests this fall, the outcome will be determined largely by one often-overlooked minority group: the mostly white and mostly conservative voters who live in America’s small towns.
Residents of rural areas make up only a fifth of the country’s population. That’s a little less than African-Americans and Hispanics combined. But unlike voters in those minority groups, small-town whites are often kingmakers in national politics.
In 2004, they voted for George W. Bush by nearly a 20-point margin. Newspapers ran headlines that baffled their urban readers: “Rural Values Proved Pivotal,” “Conservatives in Rural Ohio Big Key in Bush Victory,” and “G.O.P. Won With Accent on Rural and Traditional.”
This year, those same right-leaning small towns make up a major voting bloc in a half-dozen make-or-break Senate races, like those in Missouri, Montana, Tennessee and Virginia. They also dominate battleground House districts throughout the country, from Idaho to northern New York. If rural America embraces Republicans with the same fervor it did two years ago, Democrats will almost certainly be denied a majority in the Senate and may fall short in the House.
In part, the electoral importance of small towns reflects a profound rural bias hardwired into our political system. The Constitution grants two Senate seats to each state regardless of its population. As a consequence, a majority of senators are elected by voters in 26 sparsely settled states that together contain less than 18 percent of the country’s population.
Mr. Mann's own book on rural America suggests why the GOP will never lose the filibuster electorally.
http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/2006/11/wisdom_of_the_f.html
PURITY VS. ELECTABILITY:
Abandoning the See-Saw of Centrism (Sally Kohn, November 2, 2006, AlterNet)
If you listen closely this election season, you can hear the sound of Democratic candidates scraping their bottoms in a hasty rush toward the center. But the reasoning is unclear. In a political climate where once-preposterous, archconservative ideas are now the status quo, shifting the political center of balance to the middle would only aid that Right-wing tilt. As the center of politics is masqueraded as the new left, the right becomes the new center.
If Democrats seem generally allergic to articulating moral convictions and standing up for what they believe, election season exacerbates this condition.
http://www.alternet.org/story/43787/
The problem is that their convictions are amoral and they're running in a moralist society, which is why they have to keep their ideology so carefully hidden in order to be competitive.
The rats are the least of my concern in the 2008 race.
Hi Def.
McLoon!
Stem-Cell Fix for Diabetic Ulcer?
Wired News, by Scott Carney Original Article
Posted By: Photoonist - 11/2/2006 3:32:04 PM Post Reply
Chennai, India -- Vamal Cattacha didn't pay much attention to the pinprick-size sore on the back of her leg, and before she knew it the oozing wound had spread 22 inches, from her instep all the way up to her calf. And it was beginning to smell bad. When Vamal, a 68-year-old diabetic, finally sought treatment for the nasty-looking wound, many doctors said it was too late to save her leg. /snip/ an experimental treatment involving stem cells harvested from Vamal's bone marrow could be her only hope for saving the leg.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,72020-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
You're in BIG trouble Mister!
thought you'd like that...keep up the great work..
Hey CC!
SWB!! Hey, hey!!!
How are you my friend?
Whip me! Beat me! {:0)
cracked me up...good to see you, my FRiend..
You might like it to much.
I'm not going to judge it?
Whatsa matter McLame? Chicken?
I vote at a country church...no separation of church and state there!
Txie!!!!! Finally!!! How's our Texas gal???
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