cKGunslinger
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Does this mean that you too subscribe to the elitist notion that today's liberals are simply too smart to appeal to the poor, unwashed masses? I bet the voters admire your pity. :roll:
Does this mean that you too subscribe to the elitist notion that today's liberals are simply too smart to appeal to the poor, unwashed masses? I bet the voters admire your pity. :roll:
Yale + Harvard MBA > you
Most of the "accomplishments" on that site is mainly Congress' doing. Presidents don't create law.
Most of the "accomplishments" on that site is mainly Congress' doing. Presidents don't create law.
And for the past two presidential elections you 'conservatives' have prevented legally registered voters from excercising their right to vote by erroneously including them on lists of felons.
The sixteen year old nonsense is news to me. First I've heard of it. Would you mind providing some information on that?
Sheik Yerbouti
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I know, I know the repugs are so clean in there voting records and allowing everyone a vote(that deserves one). Lemme ask you this, what qualifies an 18 year old more than a 16 year old, there's a strong chance both are still in High School, so neither of them have much 'worldy experience'. I don't think a 14 year old should be allowed to vote, but why not 16, you are competent enough to drive a one ton weapon at high speeds, why not get the chance to vote? Are you not competent enough to punch a hole in a card or flip a switch or hit a touch pad? I voted when I turned 18, and have been voting since. And would have voted when I turned 16 if it was legal.
Infomation is much more widely available now. A 16 year old who has a job pays taxes, why not get to vote? It's not the worst idea out there.
Infomation is much more widely available now. A 16 year old who has a job pays taxes, why not get to vote? It's not the worst idea out there.
have any of you actually listened to politicians these days? nobody answers questions anymore, and nobody is accountable for anything. i'm disgusted at the state of politics right now. instead of demanding more from our politicians, and the people who represent us, we are bickering amongst ourselves. it's exactly what the politicans want us to do. for all the "apparent" differences between the left and right, were not so damn different. the politicians have just managed to magnify the differences and obstruct any kind of meaningful political conversation in this country.
Adulthood. As for punching a hole, take a look at the butterfly ballot issue in 2000. Gore voters couldn't even figure out how to punch it properly!
cKGunslinger
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I assure you I've read each and every post in this thread. I am sorry that you can't seem to express a coherent thought in a single post and must attempt to rely on the abilities of your readers to collect your multitude of conflicting expressions and assemble them into a somewhat unified theme in order to comprehend the overall meaning of a single post. I don't believe that you will have much luck getting too many posters to jump through so many hoops for what routinely turns out to be a lack-luster "reward" of your deciphered ideas. Perhaps if you could simply do us the favor and try to maintain some semblance of consistency in your work, the discussion could proceed more smoothly?
Regardless, I afford you the opportunity to explain your original post to which I was responding, as you obviously feel there was some apparent meaning that I failed to grasp. What exactly are your feelings on the "intelligence of the average voter" as it relates to the past 2 elections?
LOL, you try and put words in someones mouth to define the argument you want to argue?? You sound like a Bush supporter with a guilty conscience.
Maybe the truth hurts??
cKGunslinger
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Quite a bit less than the Gore voters!
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The confusion hurt Bush, too: 1,631 people punched Bush and Buchanan, whose hole was below his on the ballot. But Gore was the bigger loser: the two Gore combinations, minus the Bush-Buchanan votes, totaled 6,607 lost votes for Gore, the Post found.
Mainly republican? Florida was like 45% Dem in the last election.
CKent
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Here:
That clearly implies that I must be a liberal, since only a liberal could possibly dislike Bush. I can't stand that argument, it's patently false and nothing more than an attempt to troll.
The man is as dumb as a rock and responsible for the needless loss of nearly 30,000 human lives. It doesn't take much to hate him. Certainly blind party affiliation isn't the only means to that end, though it's one you seem to understand quite well
cKGunslinger
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Originally posted by: RBachman
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That clearly implies that I must be a liberal, since only a liberal could possibly dislike Bush. I can't stand that argument, it's patently false and nothing more than an attempt to troll.
The man is as dumb as a rock and responsible for the needless loss of nearly 30,000 human lives. It doesn't take much to hate him. Certainly blind party affiliation isn't the only means to that end, though it's one you seem to understand quite well
Umm, try reading that line a few more times until it sinks in. Again, I'll wait.
Your "clear implication" of being labeled as a liberal is nothing more than a self-erected strawman and faux cry of victimization. While I did conjecture to attribute you as an elitist, or at least one who might have subscribed to an elitist ideal, the only people I was calling "liberal" were those candidates that lost to Bush in the last 2 elections - namely, Gore and Kerry - as a counter-argument to your direct implication that the intelligence (or lack thereof) of the voters is the reason why neither of these two gentlemen managed to defeat Bush.
If this is an example of your intelligence and reading comprehension abilities, I'd tread a bit more carefully when throwing out "dumb as a rock" insults if I were you. Also, your assumption-abilities leave much to be desired if you instinctly believe from these few posts that I am Republican, voted for Bush, or have succumb to "blind party affiliation."
TastesLikeChicken
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Reality is accepting the fact that people have died in the past for this country, are doing so today, and hopefully will continue to do so in the future. When people stop having that will, that's the day this country really dies.
TastesLikeChicken
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