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Re: "but times have changed -- McCain/Palin can't win just with a base of hardcore Republicans and religious fanatics". Unfortunately, you are wrong. Hardcore Republicans and religious fanatics constitute an electoral majority in this country. Issues? Who cares about issues anyway? Most Americans are too stupid, indifferent, and/or ill informed to notice. What Americans want is a dictator - and a pretty one at that. They want war - especially a no-lose war against some pathetic country that is no match for us. Americans are not much bothered by issues like habeas corpus, torture, First Amendment rights and the like. The America that used to care about such things no longer exists. We have become a sick, half dead, pathetic caricature of what we used to be. I will continue to do everything in my power to stop McCain/Palin. However, if the (Ned) Lamont campaign has taught me anything, evil usually triumphs over good, so I am not terribly optimistic that sanity and morality will prevail this year.
