Michael
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- Nov 19, 1999
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veryape - I'm not Republican. I'm not a US citizen (yet) so I couldn't vote or register as a party member. The only vote from my household (I live in CA) was from my wife who is so rabidly liberal and Democrat that she makes chess9 and Tripleshot seem like wimps. She also makes Isla look wishy-washy on environmental issues. She's also a MD and she could make my death long, painful, and untraceable, so if I seem like I try and be very reasoned, it is because of my conditioned protective reflex <grin>.
With the way that "liberal" is tossed around like it is an insult, I can say that I have literally voted "Liberal" a few times in my life.
I'm pro-socialized medicine and pro-gun control.
I am pro-business and anti-union. I'm pro-growth. Other than medicine (where I feel there is a natural economy of scale and where I feel there is a moral need for service), I prefer less government. I agree with a certain level of taxation to provide services, but I feel that there is too much taxation, that the marriage penalty is wrong, and that my family (top 1% in the country for household income but I live in Silicon Valley which is top 1% in cost of living) bears too much of the tax burden.
If I had voted this election, I would have voted for Bush. I really do not like Gore. I am amazed that Clinton did not get his ass handed to him by NOW for his sexual harrassment of an intern (I would have been fired and disgraced for life if I had done anything even close at my work).
So, sorry, I'm not a Republican.
I think that Bush will win on the current contest and then lose on the absentee ballots.
I believe that it is the Legislature's duty to appoint Electors if the outcome is still uncertain by the 12th.
If I seem to argue for the Republican side, it is because I've thought long and hard on it and it is the side I think is most in the right.
In the end, I reject the Democrat cry to count all votes because they want to control the voting standard as well. Lieberman and Gore can decry the Leglislature (Republican) who control the machinery of the voting, but are strangly silent on the Canvassing Boards (Democrat) who really controlled the machinery and the counting.
Michael
With the way that "liberal" is tossed around like it is an insult, I can say that I have literally voted "Liberal" a few times in my life.
I'm pro-socialized medicine and pro-gun control.
I am pro-business and anti-union. I'm pro-growth. Other than medicine (where I feel there is a natural economy of scale and where I feel there is a moral need for service), I prefer less government. I agree with a certain level of taxation to provide services, but I feel that there is too much taxation, that the marriage penalty is wrong, and that my family (top 1% in the country for household income but I live in Silicon Valley which is top 1% in cost of living) bears too much of the tax burden.
If I had voted this election, I would have voted for Bush. I really do not like Gore. I am amazed that Clinton did not get his ass handed to him by NOW for his sexual harrassment of an intern (I would have been fired and disgraced for life if I had done anything even close at my work).
So, sorry, I'm not a Republican.
I think that Bush will win on the current contest and then lose on the absentee ballots.
I believe that it is the Legislature's duty to appoint Electors if the outcome is still uncertain by the 12th.
If I seem to argue for the Republican side, it is because I've thought long and hard on it and it is the side I think is most in the right.
In the end, I reject the Democrat cry to count all votes because they want to control the voting standard as well. Lieberman and Gore can decry the Leglislature (Republican) who control the machinery of the voting, but are strangly silent on the Canvassing Boards (Democrat) who really controlled the machinery and the counting.
Michael
", next time I'll try to appease you a little by putting in BIG BOLD LETTERS, "JUST KIDDING, I HOPE DICK CHENEY DOESN'T HAVE A 5TH HEART ATTACK!!!". Would that be satisfactory for you ma'am? 
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