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debate? It seems to me like Nader is the only candidate running who actually has ANY business at all running, and he was left out of the debates.
Is it because of his lack of big business funding? The fact he isn't a cappy puppet, with friends in high places on the row? The fact he uses a single mid-size sedan and only one attendee while on campaign trips? That he can't afford a motorcade, or private jet?
I don't think any of you are actually care about the future state of your country. Your loyalties seem to be more about party lines than bettering the country.
"Oh look, he's a Republican. I'm a republican. I'm voting for him."
If in the next election, a banana gets the republican vote, I'm sure many would vote for the sweet, sweet yellow fruit, simply because it's a donkey. Or elephant. Or possum. I don't care.
I just hope Jesse Ventura, Warren Beatty or Donald Trump run in the next election. At least the commercials that interrupt 'Norm' would be entertaining.
Vote Saskatchewan Seperatist party in 2000.
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Participation in the debates, which are organized by a private company I believe, are dependant upon the candidate having a certain percentage of the vote in a number of independant polls. (I believe.) It isn't always the most fair system, but there has to be some way to limit it to "serious" candidates. I'm sure we'd all love to see candidate Gene Ray of the Greatest Thinker Party debate Gore on the issue of word murder, but it doesn't make for very intelligent, or intelligible, discourse.
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"It isn't always the most fair system, but there has to be some way to limit it to "serious" candidates."
At this point, let us pause to reflect on one of Britain's greatest politicans, the late Screaming Lord Such, founder and head of the Monstor Raving Loony Party. They always had my vote.
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Weren't they the ones that proposed towing the island into the Mediteranian to improve the climate?
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"I don't think any of you are actually care about the future state of your country. Your loyalties seem to be more about party lines than bettering the country."
Actually, I hadn't become a true Republican until last year. And to be honest, I think Bush will actually do a better job of "bettering the country," as you say.
Also, since it was a private company that set up the debates, they can decide who gets to be in the debate and who doesn't... Not much Nader of Buchanan can do about it. However, I'll admit that 15% of the poll vote is a bit steep for 3rd parties to get in. 5% would have been more fair.
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Omega: Yup. Personally, after putting up with almost two months of continous rain (and Manchester's suppossed to be worse than this? *shudder*), I'm all for taking the island on a little trip.
BTW, "I bent my wookie" is one of the all time greatest Simpson lines ever. It's what I'm having on my gravestone.
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