[Jthro]

Go ahead and take your ball home, so that nobody else can play. It is people like you that has allowed the Liberal Democrats to plunder our country. Your attitude is very self-centered and does nothing to help the future of the United States of America and in fact is nothing but a vote for Tom Daschle's agenda.

[GailA]

This is the in fighting that the dems hope for. STOP it. It serves no useful purpose. Turn your energy into getting either Ed Bryant/Van Hilleary or Lamar Alexander/Jim Henry elected in an honorable way.

This primary can be done with out ripping the GOP apart. Did it rip the CA GOP apart when Simon beat that rino into the gound? NO it did not. Now the CA GOP is rallying around Simon to whip grey out's caboose. It will happen the same way here in Tennessee. We will close ranks on the winner. BUT give us a FAIR primary, with the Washington crowd keeping their noses out of our affairs. NO one should CROWN any ony of them KING, they should EARN the right to be called Governor or Senator. And if they prove false to their promises to be KICKED OUT of OFFICE ASAP.

THORP is a FLAMING LIBERAL SPOUTING THE LIBERAL MANTRA AND HER DEEPEST DISIRE IS TO DIVIDE and CONQUER! WHEN YOU READ HER ASP TONGUED ARTICLES KEEP IT IN MIND SHE IS THE MOUTH PIECE OF THE DEMS JUST LIKE CARVILE AND HIS ILK ARE.

WE each must examine our beliefs and our hearts and must vote accordingly. It is what our Founding Fathers fought and died for.

When we go to the polls in the primary guess what I get the choice of voting for one of THREE demon-rats as my "new" State senator....one being john ford. I'll take the opportunity to try and vote his sorry caboose out of office. The GOP DID NOT even try to put up a canidate to run against him! Where is their loyality to their consituents in that? I feel very betrayed by this. Even if the man didn't stand a chance, I'd of like the opportunity to vote for a GOP canidate. H even the Liberterians failed to put up a canidate to try and oust ford.

[D. Miles]

My ball is very much in play thank you, I spend a great amount of time on TN issues, such as fighting tooth and nail for no income tax, or any other form of additonal taxation, I spend time on victim issues, and a number of other things important for quality of life in TN.

I also give alot of time and effort to the TN GOP, but my vote, it is sacred, and it is mine, not the parties, it is something a canidate earns, they are not given it freely simply to pacify state GOP! One thing I have learned from years of political activism, one voice, one vote. My voice may influence others to vote, to think about issues, but I am the one who has to live with my vote, and while you call me self centered, I prefer to think of me as protective of my values, my believes, and my freedom.

I value above all else my right to my vote, just as I value the right of your vote, or anyone elses vote. I'll be out there everyday with my ball very much in play, right up until the polls close on August 1st. But, as I've said I cannot and will not vote for a man that pushes a liberal agenda, simply because he has an R behind his name on the ballot.

If more people would speakout and tell Alexander and others, I'm not voting for you, period, and I am urging others not to vote for you, this would be in my opinion a sure win for republicans in TN this year, but all I see is a sure fired chance of giving TN a dem senator with Alexander on the ballot!