HI again Bob,   
      
      
   As you know I'm a fan of Ben Franklin and his "he would give up a little   
   liberty ... "   
   quotation.   
      
   HEre's another which is quite apropos for what we have   
   today.  A paragraph taken from his address to the   
   constitutional convention in Philly, read by a friend of his to the assemblage   
   as he was too feeble to do it.   
   Franklin says:   
      
   "I agree to this constitution with all its faults, if they   
   are such: because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is   
   no form of government but what may be a   
   blessing to the People if well-administered; and I believe   
   farther that this is likely to be well administered for a   
   course of years and can only end in despotism as other forms have done before   
   it, when the People shall become so   
   corrupted as to need despotic government, being capable of   
   any other."   
      
   There you have it, your possible republican nominee.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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