“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Monday, January 03, 2005

UR Not Alone + David Van O's

Scared by all the fundie nuts who want to turn this nation into the spanish inquisition?

Well . . . we are not the only ones. There are also conservative Christian fundies just as scared as we are about Junior's attempt to turn America into a theocracy.

One such is Chuck Baldwin CLICK HERE

These are folks we can reach out to and find common ground to fight the Bush crime family. Email him at chuck@chuckbaldwinlive.com if you liked what you read.
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David Van O's, great American, and Texas Supreme Court candidate CLICK HERE recently wrote PTS with a few of his thoughts about Nov 2nd.
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Validation

The presidential election was a validation that if you give the voters a choice between a real Republican and a Democrat trying to sound like a Republican, most of them will choose the real thing. It was the height of foolishness for Kerry to build his campaign around national security and terrorism. That played to Bush's strength and gave Bush his choice of ground to fight on. There are so, so many examples of Bush's administration and indeed his entire career being built on lies and deceit, yet Kerry consciously gave Bush a free pass on 99% of it.

To the Democratic base, George W. Bush himself was the real issue - his fraudulence, his politics of disinformation and deceit, his arrogance, his swagger and bluster, his life as a spoiled rich boy, his love affair with theocracy, his suppression of dissent, his suppression of democracy, his suppression of checks and balances, his imperialism. Yet Kerry and his patrician political consultants insisted on campaigning on the basis of "we agree with Bush's foreign policies but we can do it in a more competent manner" and ignoring the real issues that had the Democratic base charged up.

Kerry had to get out more of the Democratic base than Bush did of the Republican base, but didn't because his message was consciously not constructed to do so. It is incredible that Kerry actually designed his campaign message to create a tight election. He didn't even try to get more people charged up about the things that had the Democratic base charged up, i.e., he didn't try to expand the Democratic base, while Bush designed his campaign to expand the Republican base by getting more people charged up about the things that charge up the Republican base.

Howard Dean inspired us all when he told us to never, ever again apologize for being Democrats. Further on Governor Dean's theme, the Democratic Party must never, ever again flinch from telling the truth about the sinister nature of the Bush family's agenda; and the Democratic Party must never, ever again build its campaigns around appeasement.

David Van Os david@vanoslaw.com
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Yep . . . keep fightin' the good one David!

-Panhandle Truth Squad