-=> BOB KLAHN wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-   
      
    DD> Especially as he hasn't distinguished himself except by   
    DD> going to Washington and staying there. Becoming one of the   
    DD> insiders that he campaigned against.   Bv)=   
      
    BK>  Which is how it goes. I do know of one republican who was   
    BK>  elected from here who did not become one of the insiders he   
    BK>  campaigned against. He really meant it. He remained independent.   
    BK>  The republican party let him go down in the next election.   
      
   That's sad. But, they are becoming the party of goose-stepping lock-steppers.   
       
    DD> I see that Dick Lugar, one of a dwindling breed, a moderate   
    DD> Republican has gone down in a primary contest to a   
    DD> tea-bagger supported extreme right-winger. The tea-bagger's   
    DD> complaint ... Lugar worked in the Senate to get things   
    DD> done, sometimes compromising (GASP WHEEZE) with the   
    DD> Democrats (UGH PATOOIE) on the other side of the aisle.   
      
    BK>  That is what I am talking about when I say they need to fight   
    BK>  against the tea baggers. Lugar should make video asking the   
    BK>  responsible republicans to sit out the election, that's the only   
    BK>  way they can stop the extreme right wing swing of the party.   
      
   It's funny. I used to could get along with many Republicans - Barry Goldwater,   
   Chuck Percy (the senator from Bell & Howell), Everett Dirksen - he of the   
   organ-like baritone voice - who (I think) said once, "To get along you've got   
   to go along." Now it seems that all the Republicans think that stasis is akin   
   to government. FEH!!!   
      
   Oddly, the current Democrat party is far to the right of where even St. Barry   
   used to be.   Bv)=    
       
    DD> problems, asking to be elected to fix those faults and   
    DD> problems without putting forth any positive or practical   
    DD> ideas on how it's to be done without destroying the fabric   
    DD> of our society.   
      
    BK>  They excell at that. Joe the Plumber is no different.   
      
   Is he the same by-blow of the failed John McShame run in 2008? IIRC he wasn't   
   the sharpest knife in the drawer back then ... and has likely lost ground   
   since.   
      
   ... I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.   
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