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 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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