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righteous1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 09:39 AM
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19. It is an excercise in futility. If you remember house members
Edited on Sun Jan-02-05 09:50 AM by righteous1
contested in 2000 and were shot down so fast it wasn't even a blip on anyones radar screen; And that was with a fair amount of the American people behind them as well as the MSM. Unless there is clear and convincing evidence of fraud anyone who contests will be just written off as a "sore loser" trying to diminish the victory of the legitimate winner. People in this country despise a poor loser and anyone who puts themselves in a position to be called one risks alienating a good % of his/her constituency. Why do you think JK is keeping this whole matter at arms length? I'll answer my own question, it's because he has future political ambitions. Do you seriously believe a lawmaker who has spent their life building a public image is going to put that in jeopardy by going WAY out on a limb concerning an issue that only 18% of the fringe of society is behind. Get proof, do that and you'll have more than enough congressional support. Without it, a few far left Don Quixote's are going to do nothing but further marginalize themselves from the mainstream and find themselves less effective than they ever were.
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