We aren't the only ones who are worried!

[Wind Dancer]

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More Republican voters seem inspired by cultural instinct than by deductive reasoning, viewing their leaders as defenders of the common citizen, advocates of small government, and conservators of the public purse. None of that is true any longer. Republicans started to betray the common people in 1892, and turned their backs for good in 1912. In the past halfcentury, Republican presidents have far outstripped Democrats in expanding the federal bureaucracy. The Bush administration in particular has squandered the largest surplus we ever had, and has spent us and our grandchildren into our deepest debt of all time — mainly to cover the bogus part of his war on terror. In addition, the administration that promised to bring “decency” back to the White House has shown its own depravtiy, employing more convicted felons than any in history.

The current ringleaders of the Republican Party, and the two presidential campaigns they have run, demonstrate incorrigible ruthlessness. At the very least, I anticipate that Republican ballot officials will try to steal another election, this time through the manipulation of electronic voting machines. Certainly there will be more cynical tricks, like the capture of “key” terrorists at suspiciously opportune moments, or the imposition of martial law on some preposterous pretext. Considering the vicious tactics that have been used against some Bush critics, I would not be terribly surprised if the top Democratic candidates were assassinated just prior to the election.

Shameless deceit is the trademark of these scoundrels. They used it to defame devoted and decorated public servants like their own John McCain, and now John Kerry, inventing the genre of the negative campaign biography to distract from George Bush’s military shortcomings. They used it to turn my country into an aggressor nation, with all the arbitrary arrests, interrogation-by-torture, military intimidation, and governmental corruption that supposedly typi- fied Ronald Reagan’s Evil Empire. Through it all, surrogates coordinate and distribute the lies, allowing their chief to fall back on Richard Nixon’s refuge of “plausible deniability.”

Even if my name is not on the rolls of the Democratic Party this November, it is certain that John Kerry will have my vote. With or without a rehabilitated Congress, the chances are slim that Kerry can pull this country out of its intellectual, economic, and moral nosedive, but it would be an improvement to have a pilot who can at least recognize the direction in which we are plummeting. More important is our global image, for only by rejecting the Bush doctrine can the people of the United States redeem themselves in the eyes of the world.

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[Shoeempress]

1. There are actually quite a few organizations here in NH made up of

Republicans, (not repukes) who are horrified by Chimpy. Gosselin, former GOP chair of Nh, has started Stop Bush 2004, the Widow of a former GOP Senator from NH has started Republicans for Kerry. It's amazing how many folks up here will not renounce their GOP affiliation, but loath Bush. Very curious lot.

[Leilani]

2. Not a curious lot..

a well informed, well educated lot, who consider it their citizen duty to participate in the electoral process, armed with facts.

Not religion, not regional prejudice, not group think, but FACTS.

Facts, are stubborn things.

[Shoeempress]

3. So I take it you've never been to NH? Just kidding

[Leilani]

4. I have spent lots of time in NH

& was always impressed by the civic participation...love the NH primaries.

My son went to school there, & got to meet & speak with every candidate running that year. It was terrific.

[tom_paine]

5. The world is trembling like it's 1938

Because it is.

It is...