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Bridge 2 Far Wrote: Oct 14, 2009 10:09 PM

I can appreciate your passion, but Rush and Sean make a very valid point when they talk about how bad an idea 3rd party is. The fact is, even if your dream comes true, and a 3rd party overtakes the GOP in support and popularity, you're still splitting the vote in the greater contest of left versus right. The Democrats will win every time, TBTG, and where will that leave all of us? It's a much better idea to work on reforming the Republican party and refining our message and appeal so that we can attract and secure a true majority (+50%) and win elections.

How long would you be willing to put up with Democrats in power, TBTG, until you'd accept this?

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Washington Is Nuts

Want to hear a real laugher? Despite the current disharmony in politics, there's one policy on which all of Washington agrees. Republicans and Democrats, House and Senate, president and Congress all agree that after last fall's financial crisis, the federal government has to regulate the financial industry more closely to protect our economy from risk of systemic financial collapse.

Here's the joke. As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians -- the...

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