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Just another web consultant whose boss is a complete slave driver. But I take my revenge by reading - a lot - when he's not looking. I believe in the role of government to help improve society, but I'm fully aware of the dangers of entrenched bureacracy and the how money corrupts. I'm not so much a liberal as I am appalled by what passes for modern conservatism. And as the pendulum swings back and the left finds its voice and strength again, I'm ready to damn its excesses. "To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition."

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GOP Performance Art at the Farmer's Market
Contributed by: Ralph Dosser   on 5/10/2008

I was at the Farmer's Market today, and was interested to see that the Longmont Republicans had a presence: a card table with a little stack of books, manned only by a dispirited youngish man slumped in a too-small folding chair. He looked like he had long since given up on getting anybody to stop and talk, and seemed about as happy as a guy who drew the short straw and had to run the NAMBLA booth at the state fair.

The wind was brisk and cold, and dark threatening clouds rolled in from the north, but he sat oblivious and idle as the other exhibitors hurriedly packed their gear to beat the rain. He seemed like a performance artist depicting the state of the modern GOP: "Heedless of the Coming Deluge" his work might have been called.

But as I hurried past this poor soul, avoiding eye contact and feigning interest in the nearby cucumber plants, I pondered: while he may have been having a discouraging Saturday, he's going to have a REALLY rough first Tuesday in November.


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Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 5/12/2008 @ 7:47:35 PM
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Damn straight. Couldn't happen to a more-deserving bunch! What's sad is that many 'old-school' Republicans have no use at all for the 'neo-con' - that's the biggest revelation of all. It's just taken eight long years for them to realize it's time to stop walking in lockstep towards a CLIFF.
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Submitted By: Ralph Dosser
posted on 5/11/2008 @ 11:11:31 AM
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Doug, your point is well taken. GOP vote suppression and tallying fraud is one of the greatest and most effective threats ever launched against American democracy, and vigilance is absolutely essential. That being said, I choose to be audacious enough to hope :) - this election is starting to feel like a realignment of vast proportions. Rove's dream of the 25-year Republican Reich is crumbling as we watch. It's glorious.
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Submitted By: Kaye Fissinger
posted on 5/11/2008 @ 1:34:05 AM
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You write so well, Ralph! You painted a truly visual picture.
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Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 5/11/2008 @ 12:35:06 AM
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I'd like to think that too, Ralph, but never underestimate them. Bush shouldn't have gotten a second term - but he did. We need to win HUGE so there's no claiming anything but a -real- mandate. Get out the vote is still crucial, as is quashing the endless stream of lies to come. Desperate people will do irrational and dishonest things to fool the public any way they can. Vigilance.
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