"No Spam" wrote in message news:mKQod.4765$K36.4509@trndny03...
the Democrats should be able to run yet another dud next time around and
manage a win.

That is my biggest fear, that they will not even try to find the right
person for the job, just somebody that can win and that may very well be
anyone.

As a disclaimer I will state that I am a Republican, but I vote for every
office based on merit not affiliation. I have never voted straight party and
probably never will. I would love to have 2 worthy candidates to choose from
next time but I will not hold my breath. There are a few very worthy
democrats out there, I hope that one of them makes it to the front-runner
this time. I'm sorry but Kerry was not a choice I could make. Of the Dems in
the running this time I kind of liked Lieberman, but since he did not make
it to the front, I am sorry to say I don't know enough about him to say for
sure if I would have voted for him, but from what I do know, I believe I
would have. The primary system just does not seem to be bringing the best
forward and I don't know what might change that, but I'm hoping someone in
the right places knows how and does it. I would love to have the problem of
deciding between 2 candidates that I like next time, instead of figuring out
who I think is the lesser evil

Ken.

Ken, not No Spam? See we're getting on speaking terms, and you were an
R all the time. Like Eddy Murphy said, "You Devil, you" Threw that in
for Dave!

You are right, US politics is based on who can get nearest the center
of the merry-go-round, and the others will get spun off. There is less
and less difference between candidates from a true issue basis. But
that does not mean the candidate wants to be known as a moderate,
since that has come to mean you don't believe in anything. So there is
this turf war going on for a 1% advantage at the center.

So usually it breaks down to who combs his hair a certain way, and
catch phrases, and Madison AVE. marketing. Why would the best come and
want to be put forward, for a not-so-free ride in the washing machine,
we call American poitics, where the wash cycle never ends, escept with
a spin cycle, and then another wash! So we have to either choose the
lesser of two evils, or the better known, and that means the incumbemt
has an advantage, which means He is the lesser at stake choice for
most voters!

Its been fun, outa here for now, Life, Live it! Tinkerntom