Wouldn't it also be an unusual way to unify the Democratic Party?

You want to drive all the moderate conservatives out of it, the DLCers and such, back into the GOP where they belong. This should drive all the wingnut extremists who have taken over the GOP back under the rocks they crawled out from under, like The Constitution Party, The Nazi Party, The American Libertarian Party. This country needs a vibrant, active and viable liberal/left progressive political party. Most Americans are that, whether they realize it or not.

John Dean is.

Keith Olbermann is, etc.

Clinton is a moderate conservative.

So is Obama.

But that's not going to happen overnight. A generation or two.

Please ride along. We wll pick up Pedinska, a mortician, a podiatrist, a manicurist, a mannequin,

an attorney, a belly-dancer, a politico specialist, a mattress, a baker cook, a gardener, a flush toilet, a hair stylist, a prison inmate, a high-school commencement speaker, a proctologist, and a female gynecologist,

Some CEO'S from Wall Street may come along too.

Don't forget: Report to duty with various items:

Laundry detergent, GOP "journalist" and a mortician.

We can get YMCA memberships for weekly showers.

Retired Military Patriot can be nicknamed, Semper Fido?

We can report back our critique....

That just hunky dory with me Bop. I always try to be man's er human's best friend- at least until someone turns on me. Will that old truck of yours carry that much?

So, you don't like that idea, LWM?

I'm not sure from your reaction.

Frankly, I more or less agree with you about the party. In fact, my daughter thinks I'm crazy because I'm complaining about all of the "open" primaries.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think a Democratic candidate should be chosen by actual Democrats, not by a bunch of people who are too dissatisfied with their own party's selection, or who cannot even make a commitment to a particular party... it's no wonder that the pollsters/pundits can't figure out what the trends are. The party has been greatly diluted.

One of my co-workers admitted that he was unhappy with his own party's choice, and he really wanted to be part of making history in the Democratic party's primary. So, he changed his registration. Now, in my book, he's a great guy and everything, but he's not really a Democrat.

Sure the UK press is a lot less deferential. And you know what? As you can see from the interviews, the politicians can take it. They argue back. They defend. they don't get all pissy about the way they're being treated.

"In 1789, they didn't have such things, but the people of Connecticut would have felt perfectly free to regulate the use of contraceptives as immoral behavior," he added. "Our whole standards and our sexual attitudes have changed." And therein lies the problem in adapting an 18th-century document and concepts of freedom to the 21st century.

Oh really? The condom was in use in Roman times, this guy didn't do his homework. If it is the case that the Founding Fathers would have banned contraceptives, then we should have evidence of it.

Thanks for the reference to the dickipedia. A truly phenomenal resource!

Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is a former United States Congressman, Secretary of Defense, the 46th Vice President of the United States and a dick. He also served as White House Chief of Staff, and in the private sector was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. Every decision he has ever made has been wrong.

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In 1963, with the draft board ramping up, Cheney enrolled in Casper Community College (one of the finest institutions of higher-learning in Southwest Casper), and received his first student deferment. Later that year, he got his second student deferment. In August of 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, escalating American military involvement. Twenty-two days later, Dick married his wife, and a few months later received his third deferment. In July, 1965, President Johnson announced he would double the number of the number of draftees. Cheney moved quickly, entered graduate school that year, and received his fourth student deferment. This was quite a sacrifice, as grad school is known to be extremely boring. Cheney received a “hardship exemption" in 1966 when he and his wife conceived their first child. By the next year, he was no longer eligible for the draft. It had been a long process, but Cheney learned a valuable lesson: if you get in a jam, you can usually get out of it by fucking somebody.

Cheney’s career is notable for having taken place almost entirely within a "dick bubble." He began his career as in intern for Richard Nixon and was campaign manager in 1976 for Gerald Ford -- a campaign that managed to lose a governor of Georgia. Dick was then elected to the House, where he served until 1989. Part of this service included voting against making the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a holiday, voting against calling on South Africa to release Nelson Mandela, and voting against the creation of the Department of Education -- the kind of congressman that would be produced if George Wallace and Barry Goldwater had a child who inherited the worst of each and then grew up to be a congressman and also lost his hair.

With the really fun part of war in Iraq winding down, in May 2007 Cheney gave a speech warning Iran about its nuclear program. Many took this to be setting the stage for a war with Iran, this one even possibly involving nuclear weapons. This alarmed many people, even those in the dick community. One theory about why Cheney would care so little about nuclear war and the casualties it would cause is because, in fact, Cheney actually died several years ago, and is just too big of a dick to leave, instead simply willing his body to carry one through sheer dick will.

Cheney has always maintained that when his term expires he will retire from public life. His choices for what he will do after leaving the administration may be influenced by an approval rate that by late 2007 hovered in the twenties. Though that is a record low, his supporters point out that it is still higher than those of Ceauşescu, Hitler and Joe Francis, who still seems to be able to make a decent living.

My cheeks are still hurting...