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So, when the Democrat Party chooses Hillary, and the RINOs choose McCain, how in the 11th hour can a third party candidate steal the election away from the ol' guard? By gathering up the disenfranchised from both parties. Easy, if you had a candidate who could identify with African-Americans (who are about to have their faces spat on by the Dems when Obama and his supporters are left out of convention) and could equally identify with the Conservatives (who have been offered no one who conservative Socially, AND Fiscally, AND Security-wise). There is such a candidate. His name is Alan...

On a political discussion board that I participate in, one member challenged a fellow freeper by asking if he voted his conscience or voted for paranoia, the inference being that only a paranoid would vot for Bush. Here is my response. ********************************************************* I just voted here in Chicago. I very much voted my conscience. My conscience tells me that I don't want to pay higher taxes. It told me that my kids don't need to grow up in a country where activist judges legislate form the bench. It told me that I want to be able to open up a...

WASHINGTON — As a contentious primary between a moderate incumbent and a conservative unknown neared its end Tuesday, one camp accused the other of sponsoring a series of "dirty" and "disgusting" phone calls to voters in the waning days of the campaign. David Fischer, a Republican attorney who has launched a formidable campaign against moderate Republican Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, said he has received 200 to 300 complaints from voters in Maryland's 1st District who say they have received phone calls in the last few days accusing Fischer of defending child pornographers and molesters in his law practice. "It is the...