"DSK" wrote in message
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I did not vote for either Bush or Kerry.

Yeah I bet.



Calif Bill wrote:
Since it is a secret ballot, I can not prove it, so you get to keep your
money.


Well, why have you been a charter member of the Bush-Cheney Cheerleaders
then? Why do you go so far out of your way to defend President Bush? Why
do you so blatantly despise the few relatively successful moderate
Democrats? Doesn't add up!


... Kerry was far behind in the polls and primaries until the DNC put
all their resources behind Kerry.

???

No, Kerry won almost all the primaries with fairly large margins. Edwards
came in second a number of times, Dean won a single early primary.

Where do you get this loony-toons stuff?



... Is part of Democracy to have a party leadership committee, but this
DNC seemed to deem Kerry their person. Just like the RNC blessed Dole a
few years prior. Both unelectable.


Why was Dole "unelectable?"

DSK



http://www.boston.com/news/politics/..._kerry_debate/

Sort of explains Kerry selection.

By ignoring the facts and concentrating on a lot of negative blather?

That's not an explanation, that's spin. Kerry won the primaries. He was
also the top fund-raiser, a sad comment on our current political system,
but he certainly was not selected by some secret cabal of Democrat
elitists.



Dole was unelectable as he had no charisma, no real platform and no
leadership showing.

Actually Dole had a lot of leadership and probably the most real practical
political experience of any recent candidate. He also had a pretty strong
sense of morals, something lacking in almost all other Republicans and
many Democrats.

The biggest problem with Dole is that he was a throwback to a kinder,
gentler, slower paced, more bipartisan era. A Republican Party which was
turning to total amorality, win-at-all-costs, cut-throat partisanship, and
a total abdication from any responsibility for national leadership,
rejected him.



... Sort of like Sen., Kerry. Senators make a poor choice for President.

Shucks, by now almost everybody except you and NOBBY agree that Kerry
would have made a much better President than Bush. But then, why would a
moderate centrist Democrat fellow like you see it that way?

DSK


I am a not a Bush cheer leader. This administration sucks. No financial
control whatsoever. Kerry, was proposing a couple hundred million increase
in social spending. Also no financial control whatsoever. He was going to
raise taxes on only the top 1%. You think his wife would like that. He was
the top fundraiser as he had the DNC behind him. I voted for Badnarick.
Anybody but the above. Both sides of the aisle are profligate spenders.
But sides added pork, barrels of Pork, to the highway spending bill, and
every other bill that came along. Anybody that opposed a spending bill,
seemed to lose their chairmanship, or any other position with power. WE as
a people need to vote out 90% of the incumbents and tell the ones coming in
to correct their retirement plan! Why should you get a lifetime pension for
4 years of elected office, where the salary was very good? Put them on
Social Security and then you would see SS fixed. DSK, you are so much a
Yellow Dog Democrat, that you would never look at the candidate except for a
'D' after their name!!!!