I read an interesting book last year. Written by a couple good ole boys from down in the southeastern u.s. who also happened to be hardcore democrats. The book was a discussion of how dems should conduct their political races to fight repubs.

The chapter on "values" was interesting. It discussed how repubs are so bad on real values like taking care of the poor, healthcare, etc. So they redefined "values" to mean gay marriage and abortion. And once they had suceeded in that redefinition, dems were constantly on the defensive whenever it came to a values discussion.

I got some email today from a democratic organization. It has a paragraph where the chairman of the repub party is talking about redifining somethings today to put Hillary/Obama on the defensive.

But the book also had some other interesting chapters. It showed the hard facts of what happens during repub presidencies. How money for roads in rural districts practically disappeared during the last 20 yrs or so when a repub was in power.

It will be interesting to see if people actually vote with their pocketbooks this time around. People lost alot during the last 8 yrs. But they were taught be be afraid of terrorists, afraid of gays, etc. And that dems were good friends of terrorists. So it scared people to vote repub. Lets see if that still works.


>>>The U.S. political party that makes "pro life" an acid test for its candidate is the same party that defends the death penalty at every opportunity.
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>>>I see them clearly (heard someone else say it first) as pro life until birth only.
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>>It's the same coin, even the same side. They want to be the deciders: they decide about birth, they decide about death. They are life pros.
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>Yea. Also the party that claims to want to keep the government out of your life.