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There's too much ignorance and as WEL puts it, its not just on one side, people are upset that Sherrod Brown despite being more liberal is the Ohio senate candidate because he wasn't the grassroots candidate, you know what I think of that, I think thats pretty damned stupid if you consider that there are going to be grassroots people supporting candidates everywhere. Rememeber the 2004 Primary in Iowa, I remember Kerry and his supporters being accused of "crushing the grassroots", I wasn't a Kerry supporter then but I found that just so insulting since I found it to be bs. Also just because someone comes from the "Grassroots" does not mean they are not going to be any better than anyone else in Congress. Many congresspeople right now in both parties were elected on running on the outsider campaign, take the majority leader, Boehmer for example, he was part of the famous gang of seven that railed against corruption and he was the GOP nominee in 1990 because he ran an outsider campaign, and now he's buddies with Abramoff and is one of the most crooked politicans in congress. Its nice to think that Grassroots candidates will be pure and stuff but its not accurate. Sorry for ranting like this, I am just sick and tired of the idiocy and the arrogance I see on both sides of the political debate in our country.
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