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Re: Friday, November 3, 2006
I too grew up in a staunchly Republican household. My father voted for Goldwater and claimed that Nixon's worst crimes were passing the 55 mph speed limit and taking the country off the gold standard. And honestly, I voted for Regan (twice) and the elder Bush, but then Clinton seemed to have better ideas so I voted for him. Meanwhile, Bush Jr. became the cheif dickhead in Texas (I lived in Austin at the time). Very, very few of us living in Austin voted for the man in 2000, vastly prefering Ralph Nader to either Gore or Shrub. Shrub carried the state, of course, and repeated in 2004. I don't think the Democrats have a magic bullet to cure all that ills the country, but the current administration needs to be checked in its efforts toward monarchy, and the only mechanism we have as a populace, short of revolt and overthrow, is to elect a large majority of the opposing party to Congress and pray for stalemate duing the next two years.
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