...   
      
    JB>> But at the end of the day they will still pull the level for him in the   
    JB>> voting booth.   
      
    JH> My mother, while nominally a Republican, has always been   
    JH> proud of the fact that she votes for the man, not the   
    JH> party.  I reminded her that no matter how good the man   
    JH> might be, if he's a Democrat he does what the party tells   
    JH> him to do, or gets thrown under the bus because its their   
    JH> way or the highway.   
      
    It's not nice to mislead your mother. Notice how the Blue Dog   
    democrats did *NOT* do what the party wanted, and they not only   
    did not get thrown under the bus, but got advantages?   
      
    Notice how the republicans who did not do what the party wanted   
    got thrown under the bus? I said before the election that the   
    Tea Party would be responsible for more repubican defeats than   
    the democrats would. So the Tea Party not only nominated whack   
    job candidates that could not get elected, but also ran   
    candidates who beat out real republicans.   
      
    The Blue Dog Democrats, the ones who were more independent, got   
    hit bad by the Tea Party, as did conservative democrats in   
    general.   
      
    Yet the democratic party supported even the Blue Dog democrats,   
    while the republican party demanded toe the line lock step to   
    get support.   
      
    JH> I don't think she ever thought about   
    JH> it like that before. Never too late to learn something,   
    JH> even at 81.   
      
    Even if it's false?   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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