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To: guaguanco
1) I admit I used a sarchastic phrase in my response, but I didn't call you names.

Oh, give me a break, you appear to get off on calling others hypocrites.

2) If the democratic party in Mississippi is so liberal, and the republicans are so conservative, why did democrats vote for a democratic candidate if they wanted him to really be a republican? And why did he run as a democrat if he was so ideologically out-of-step with his party?

There hasn't hardly been a Republican Party in Mississippi until recently: liberals and conservatives were all in the Democrat Party. Party identification has said nothing about ideology until recently, and Mississippi votes for legislators every 4 years, which means a lot has changed in the last one or two cycles. Since back then, when a lot of these folks were getting started in politics, the Republican Party has appeared, and has unequivocally been the party of conservatives, while the MISS Rat Party has become closer and closer to the national liberals. When given the choice between conservative Rep Ronnie Shows and conservative Rep Chip Pickering, folks who would have voted for Shows as an incumbent went in droves for Pickering, the Republican, who won 2-1, clear evidence that folks will acquiesce if their conservative wants to be a Rat but would prefer him to be a Pub.

Which means that it really has nothing to do with a conservative leaving the Republican party in NC.

Now that you've been educated, you can take back everything you said, and plead ignorance. C'mon:

69 posted on 01/24/2003 1:00:08 PM PST by JohnnyZ (Everyone knows that square is the shape of evil! -Spongebob Squarepants)
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