-=> Richard Webb wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    DD> They are out of touch or they wouldn't be (current) Repuglicans.   
      
    RW> YEah I know, but that's waht I really don't understand.  Has the   
    RW> current Republican party become so blind to this that   
    RW> they've lost touch with what it really meant to be a   
    RW> conservative in the days of Goldwater et al?  Tehy really   
    RW> don't grasp that there's a vast pool of dissatisfied   
    RW> citizens out there who don't see the point in the bottomless bailout   
    RW> pit for Wall street crooks and fat cats gaming the   
    RW> system at their expense.  A viable third party which   
    RW> actually discussed fixing essential infrastructure and   
    RW> putting people back to work could really go somewhere.  Many of us are   
    RW> qutie uncomfortable with both major parties these   
    RW> days.  I'll probably vote major party this time, while I   
    RW> hold my nose.   
      
   The Democraps, for the most part, are as bad as the Repugs. Just in a   
   *supposedly* different direction. I sort of (my wallet does anyway) hope they   
   keep it up. I have just finished up selling my third thousand bumper stickers   
   that are red on top, blue on the bottom, with the words "NO INCUMBENTS" in   
   white. I may be able to aspire to the middle of the 99% if this keeps up.     
   v)=   
      
   I am considering (we vote in the non-open primary next Tuesday) causing a big   
   kerfluffle at my polling place by asking for a Libertarian ballot. Last time I   
   did that the reaction looked like a musical stage play with one lady running   
   (literally) around the room waving her hands in the air, declaiming over and   
   over "We got a Libertarian - We got a Libertarian - We got a Libertarian" sort   
   of like the number "Trouble" from The Music Man. they finally got someone from   
   the election commission to bring some Libertarian primary ballots out to the   
   precinct along with an extra jig to hold the punch card and with the proper   
   Libertarian choices inserted. Then they took the Republican sign off of one of   
   the booths, put the machine on the holder and let me have at it.   
      
   As I was leaving I noticed the little old ladies that populate the chairs as   
   Primary Election Judges shaking their heads and one of them replacing the   
   Republican paraphernalia and sign at the voting booth. But I cast my Primary   
   vote for Harry Browne and thus against both Slick Willy and Liz Dole's ol' man.   
   Ross "Giant Sucking Sound" Perot got caught up in my frenzy to register a   
   protest, too.  Bv)=   
      
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