HI Dave,   
      
   On Sun 2012-Mar-18 07:00, DAVE DRUM (1:261/1381) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
    RW> YEah I know, but that's what 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?   
      
      
   DD> The Democraps, for the most part, are as bad as the Repugs. Just in   
   DD> a *supposedly* different direction. I sort of (my wallet does   
   DD> anyway) hope they keep it up. I have just finished up selling my   
   DD> third thousand bumper stickers that are red on top, blue on the   
   DD> bottom, with the words "NO INCUMBENTS" in white. I may be able to   
   DD> aspire to the middle of the 99% if this keeps up.   v)=   
      
     I like it.   
      
   DD> I am considering (we vote in the non-open primary next Tuesday)   
   DD> causing a big kerfluffle at my polling place by asking for a   
   DD> Libertarian ballot. Last time I did that the reaction looked like a   
   DD> musical stage play with one lady running (literally) around the room   
   DD> waving her hands in the air, declaiming over and over "We got a   
   DD> Libertarian - We got a Libertarian - We got a Libertarian" sort of   
   DD> like the number "Trouble" from The Music Man. they finally got   
   DD> someone from the election commission to bring some Libertarian   
   DD> primary ballots out to the precinct along with an extra jig to hold   
   DD> the punch card and with the proper Libertarian choices inserted.   
   DD> Then they took the Republican sign off of one of the booths, put the   
   DD> machine on the holder and let me have at it.    
      
     LIked that one too.  Iowa where I was registered   
   most of my adult like was/is a caucus state, i registered   
   Democrat so that I could participate in the caucuses to help influence some   
   issues on the state level.  IN '88 I declared at the caucus for Jackson   
   because I knew that he'd have the   
   overwhelming support of people in my precinct, and I was   
   angling for a seat on county then state platform committee   
   over some issues on the state level.  I knew going in he   
   didn't have a prayer, but ...   
      
   DD> As I was leaving I noticed the little old ladies that populate the   
   DD> chairs as Primary Election Judges shaking their heads and one of   
   DD> them replacing the Republican paraphernalia and sign at the voting   
   DD> booth. But I cast my Primary vote for Harry Browne and thus against   
   DD> both Slick Willy and Liz Dole's ol' man. Ross "Giant Sucking Sound"   
   DD> Perot got caught up in my frenzy to register a protest, too.  Bv)=   
      
   YEah I know, I think my vote might've gone for Brown that   
   time in the general, it didn't go for the other two, or   
   maybe it was Clark who was running for the libertarians.   
      
   Still it's sure a head scratcher how these people in the   
   major party leadership, especially the Republicans can be so utterly clueless   
   as to give the electorate such a silly   
   circus.  I mean really!  Gingrich or ROmney as the front   
   runners in the REpublican contest.  NEwt, one of the most   
   intensely disliked pols among independents and moderates,   
   and mister corporate raider.  YEah right, that's gonna play   
   to that vast middle.  YEah sure.   
      
   I want some of whatever they're having, i could use my   
   reality substantially altered.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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