I’m in Graduate school now, studying to be a therapist. In about a year, I’ll be able to help you if when you snap.

Sorry about that “name thing”.
“The devil is in the details”. It’s an American saying — you may not know it.

And you can click on my name and get to my blog. It’s certainly not as sickeningly pretentious as yours.

But, then, whose is?

Whose could be?

So the New Hampshire Republican party is a totally different plitical entity from the national Republican party.

Wow. Only you would be stupid enough to believe that.

By the way, asshole, the story I linked to gave names. It even gave what crimes there were convicted of and how long they were sentenced to.

But I guess that’s not enough for someone as stupid as you. I guess I have to cut and paste names in this actually thread to satisfy the likes of you.

“Why don’t you head back to The Only Web Space That Matters?”

Hey Frank, post you last name so I can dig into your internet dealings, or shut the fuck up.

Fucking coward.

The story referred to a New Hampshire State Senate race, not even the Presidential Election at the state level.

Not exactly the stuff of which “Republican voter suppression machine[s]” are made.

And that piece of shit response took 19 hours!

Why don’t you head back to The Only Web Space That Matters?

This is a complete non-sequitor and a lie.

You asked for a name, you waited 45 minutes and complained I hadn’t provided on yet.

(And if you had followed my link, you would know I have since given more than enough evidence.)

Federal case where the conficted had ties to the White House. Yeah, it’s a nothing story.

You’re a fucking loser, Frank.

Why?

Because it was a State election going back 5 years, and the 2006 Washington Post story that tried to implicate the White House (printed on page 10) came a cropper.

In other words, you already knew it was a nothing story, and nothing like evidence of a “Republican voter suppression machine”

BTW, “Jesus Christ, Frank. What the fuck is your problem?” is a bit out of character for “the greatest man I’ll never know”, eh?

Jesus Christ, Frank. What the fuck is your problem? I don’t respond to your post in 45 minutes so you have to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_New_Hampshire_Senate_election_phone_jamming_scandal

You realize part of the “Republican voter suppression machine” was recently sent to jail. Or was the judge in that case part of the Tinfoil Brigade?

It couldn’t possibly have occurred to you that you “are sincerely misinformed and manipulated by people who have perverted Christian theology for a political purpose”, right?

Oh, no! I’ve been mesmerized, hypnotized and indoctrinated. Only YOU know the truth!

I think the Hispanic television network you’re referring to is called Univision. Have you ever watched it?

Anyone who even refers to a “Republican voter suppression machine” gets to wear the tin foil beanie…

Fd10801:
You may be sincere in your beliefs but you are sincerely misinformed and manipulated by people who have peverted Christian theology for a political purpose. The documentation of this has been growing. The takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1979 is one of the best documented.
Read this site for a month and open your mind.
http://www.talk2action.org/

On Republican nominees:
They stink. And they all have issues. Much larger issues than any democratic nominee. Giuliani is pro choice and vocal about it. How does that work for the pro coathanger party? He also has demonstrated poor judgement and would get hammered in the general election campaign. Romney is a Mormon and this is an issue for GOP voters. He also comes across as slick and shallow in person and he’s from the North East not the repubs favorite. McCain has tied the War around his neck and is polling as a loser in the gerneral against any generic dem nominee.
Huckabee had promise but came out against evolution which annoys the libertarian business faction. Brownback is too thoecratic. Tucrinado is too angry. And the law and order guy who hasn’t entered yet is apparently really lazy and doesn’t give good speeches. It’s a disaster for the GOP and a lot of their insiders like Novak are saying as much.

One final note is that with the growing number of State Legislatures and governorships under dem control and the busting open of the Ganzales DOJ attorney purge scandal, we can say that the Republican voter suppression machine will not be working as efficiently in 2008 as it did in 2004 and 2000. By itself that could make enough of a difference to put any generic dem candidate over a generic repub candidate.

I even read a thing today about Universales, the latin American tv network, blanqueting their airwaves with pro voter registration drives. This could throw the whole southwest to the Democrats in 2008

Clinton wins the Dem nomination and wins it early because so many states have advanced their primaries. McCain wins the GOP nomination, likewise very early.

Now we’ve got two candidates with high negatives and eight months for the media to pick them both apart. We have also arrived at a time when the electorate is sharply divided from 15 years of the major parties using wedge issues to sharply define themselves.

Sounds like a super-prime opportunity for someone to capitalize on the electorate’s frustrations with the available choices. Yes, I’m talking about an independent or third party candidate.

OK, the track record of candidates from outside the two mainstream parties hasn’t been stellar–even when the candidates are solid and serious. John Anderson back in 1980 made a good showing, but didn’t win a single state. Ross Perot might have taken a few states if he hadn’t withdrawn and started floating tales about secret plots.

Nevertheless, the divide is deep and the candidates have high negative ratings.

An independent candidate could radically change the face of American politics. If a popular independent could carry 15 or 20 members of the House and 3 or 4 Senators in on his (or her) coattails, you won’t even recognize the current major parties five years hence.

The non-allied members of congress, backed by the Executive, would become the focus of legislative bargaining unlike anything we’ve seen. With a third player involved, political maneuvering in Washington would shift from a contest of strength to building coalitions and consensus.

This would also have a liberating effect on the current major parties. Mainstream republicans would no longer be beholden to Christian conservatives. Economic conservatives in both parties could ally to craft tax policy. Progressive Dems would no longer be able to buy a place at the legislative bargaining table by moderating their views–moderates will turn to the non-allied to build coalitions.

OK, so it’s all far-fetched. Sounds like fun, though.

The ACLU, of which I’d be a member were I American, has in the past defended the Westbro Baptist Church’s right to…well you know what those fuckers do.

“Freedom of speech applies to absolutely everyone and everything, no exceptions.” James Madison (in Duckman). The ACLU encourage the gritting of teeth for the good of society. Not that Frank or his friends are interested in the “good of society”.

At that time, and during Nixon’s successful presidential runs after, we saw the birth of the modern GOP coalition.

Karl Rove in Texas in the 70′s and 80′s, a heavy Dem state, realized all he needed to win was to weld 50% plus one.

The modern GOP’s 50% plus one was Fundies, Conservatives, right-wingers, moral majority working class, and the white South.

Clinton gave the GOP the moral advantage that swung just enough moderate undecided over to get them their chance which they capitalized in Florida.

Once Rove began to “Architect” from the West Wing with Santorum and DeLay, they went after money with a vengeance, and built the K-Street model and a “New Media”-driven pro-corporatist empire, spearheaded by Rush and Hannity and FOX.

The GOP’s corporatist, power-at-all-costs ideas do not sell well in the heartland they need so badly; in fact they needed every penny of Bush’s huge war chest to win in 2004, and it came down to GOP operatives in Ohio to squeak out a win after
911 gave them the fear factor that swung security moms and moderates willing to have Bush finish out his term.

Now, it appears that coalition has fallen apart. The Dems have struck back in the media wars and fought the “New Media” to a draw. (Thanks, Ollie and MediaMatters!)

The old hot-button issues “God in the Public Square! Abortion on Demand! Damn Socialist Tax-and Spenders! just do not work any more the way they once did.

Why? The GOP blew it. Conservatives and Libertarians woke up to the fact they’ve been had: Deficit at an all-time high, nation-building, HUGE government, Roe v Wade is stil the law of the land, and they can’t even begin to consider the fact that the Bushies have gone after the Constitution with a shredder in their zeal to control social policy and remain in power.

AS Zell Miller used to say, and as I hear Conservatives say now, “I never left my Party, my Party left me”.

We will begin to see many once-solid GOP and Conservative voters decide they’ve had enough, and begin to look for alternatives.

That’s why I feel Thompson is their only choice: He can buy them time to sort out the coming disaster as the GOP coalition fractures and topples like glaciers tumbling into the sea, leaving its various factions stranded on their ice floes like drowning polar bears.

Giulani or Romney as a candidate means the Christian Right and Fundies will not vote GOP. McCain as a candidate means the Right-wingers and moderates won’t vote GOP.

Thompson is their only hope to stay united and give it one last try.

Thompson is incredibly target-rich in a General Election, as we all know. But I make the argument he is really all they have.

But those on the Right? WOWIEE!

What an extremist opportunistic hack-a-palooza-la!

So based on what I know about the Right, I came up with some ideal alternate candidates.
Other citizens of this great country more representative of the Republican party and their current constituents issues and values:

Larry the Cable Guy
Charles Manson
PeeWee Herman

(I bet Rove is already in secret talks with Manson!)

Oliver: “the ACLU has fought for the rights of the religious time and time again”
Not nearly as many times as they have fought religion. I never doubted they had principles — they are anti – religious in principle.

The number of Jews and Catholics voting Democratic is, in general, decreasing. But more importantly, there are a large number of pro – life Catholics and Jews who know exactly what Democrats stand for, and won’t vote for them. I’m one of them.

“And if the Christian right doesn’t run the party why do the candidates… ”
Why do Democrats address union conventions, and the NAACP? You have to press the flesh. You just choose to identify the influence the Fundamentalists have over the Republicans as somehow different from the influence of groups like the NEA, or AARP or the NAACP.

“Just because I was alive during the Challenger disaster does not make me a space shuttle expert.”
Correct. And if I was watching television live when it blew up, you’re not going to tell me it didn’t happen.

Its caled the American Civil Liberties Union for a reason. Not the Some American Civil Liberties Are Better Than Others Union.