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Xanthro
Published Letters: 522 Editor's Choice: 47
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Deluding yourself
[Read the article: Salon interview: Harry Reid]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bluecanary: You evidently have very little reading comprehension skills. If you had read my post, instead of jumping on your "if you're not with us you're against us" soapbox, you'd have seen that I've voted in every election since I turned 18. Yes, I even swallowed my disgust and voted for kerry.
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My reading comprehension is fine, because even your above statement proves my point. You swallowed your disgust and voted for Kerry. Disgust for Kerry, as opposed to voting for Bush. That's hardly a defensible stand.
There was nothing wrong with Kerry except he ran a poor campaign. I was happy to vote for him, happy to monetarily support his campaign and happy to work on his election. Despite the fact that he wasn't my candidate in the primary.
If Howard Dean were the candidate, my support would have been the same, because there are fundamental differences between any of the Democractic candidates and G.W. Bush.
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Bluecanary: Now these democrats say they were hoodwinked into war. Really? Were the millions of people who marched in protest against the Iraq invasion somehow privy to information the dems didn't have access to?
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Let's not pretend that said protesters who doing so based on logic and reasoning that Iraq didn't have WMD rather than simply as a reaction because Bush is a Republican.
Where were the these people when the United States attacked Serbia in violation of international law? Nowhere to be seen.
Having ANSWER involved with the marchers did nothing but turn off many more millions of Americans and push them into the Bush column.
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Bluecanary: but since you have all the answers, by all means: tell me the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. Spell it out for me. Let's hear it.
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If Kerry would have been elected.
No Presidental support for a Constitutional amendment banning Gay Marriage, no Roberts as Chief Supreme Court Justice, no Alito as Supreme Court Justice, and the bankruptcy bill would have been vetoed.
Any one of these issues is large enough on it's own to warrant Kerry over Bush, much less all of them.
Plus, Kerry would have had far more success in internationalizing the Iraq conflict, simply because he doesn't look down on anyone who isn't American, which in turns faster progress and fewer US killed.
Let's examine the list of Democrats you chose just so you could find as many positions as possible that you disagree with, but couldn't find in one person.
Note, I could support any and every position under the sun using this techinque, which is why it is meaningless.
I can find anti-gay democrats, pro-gun democrates, anti-choice democracts, and every other possible combination.
The fact still remains that while individuals may hold these beliefs, for the most part it's a minority belief in the party as opposed to a majority belief in the Republican party.
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Nancy Pelosi: refuses to tell Americans the truth and admit we need to conserve oil, aka "drive less" and hops on the "alternative fuel" and "oil cartels are to blame" BS bandwagon.
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Exactly how does someone enforce a drive less policy? Higher taxes on fuel? That's a sure way to lose an election right now.
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Bluecanary: Harry Reid: Anti choice, pro-war.
Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton: anti-1st Amendment anti-flag burning pathetic pandering legislation.
Most Democratic enators: Voted for war in Iraq. Voted for Patriot Act. Let big corporate sponsors fund their campaigns.
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Reid, Clinton and Feinstein represent different States, and thus only one can actually be your Senator.
Being dishonest with yourself and looking far and wide to take positions held by Democrats you have nothing to do with, and who positions in the matter differ from the Democratic party consensus is why I say you are deluding yourself.
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Please, Xantho, enlighten this "closet republican" as to what exactly IS the difference between the two parties.
If requiring my politicians have principles, backbone and an actual message other than "Please let me keep my job" makes me a Republican, then so be it. I'm a pro-choice, anti-war, anti-oil, pro-bike, pro-environment anti-corporate republican.
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Yes, you might as well be a Republican, because your actions and position directly work to ensure the election of a Republican President.
You are never ever going to find any politician who agrees with you on every issue, even if you personally run I doubt you hold on to your current beliefs as strongly as you think, but the fact is I talk to Republicans all the time whose position is "I'll always vote Republican" juxtaposed to Democrats such as yourself who can't stand a candidate who they don't find personally perfect and thus must hold their nose is disgust when the vote.
So, thank you for Roberts and Alito, thank you for a continuation of the Iraq war, thank you for the next anti-choice Supreme Court Justice after 2008 who will oppose every item you listed as important.
Deluding yourself into thinking the Democratic Party and Republican Party are the same just ensures continued Republican victory and the destruction of those issues you claim to care about.