[Leica] (w/o HTML ) Hey, Did I Call YOU a Republican?

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Your description of McCain is right on, Feli, as is your description of
the current Republican party. The description below of "U.S. standards"
is one of no U.S. I've ever lived in. Anyone who would, with a straight
face, describe McCain as being to the left of Ralph Nader is so far to
the right as to be coming back around the other side.

B. D.



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Feli di Giorgio
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 6:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] (w/o HTML ) Hey, Did I Call YOU a Republican?


On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 13:21, Marc James Small wrote:

> By US standards, Senator McCain -- who believes in Big Government and 
> detests the insistance of the several States that they DO have some 
> rights under our Constitution -- is somewhere to the left of Ralph 
> Nader.  He is hardly "traditional" or "conservative" by any US 
> standard.
> 
> George Bush is a mild liberal:  he has eroded civil rights and has 
> insisted on using the Federal authority for items for which it was 
> never intended, such as the protection of the environment and for the 
> suppression of Free Speech.  He is close to McCain in earning my 
> dislike but he isn't quite at the McCain point yet.
> 
> Me?  I'll vote Libertarian or I will write in a candidate.  Virginia, 
> where I live, is going to go heavily for Bush so my vote becomes a 
> meaningless protest vote.
> 
> Marc


What I am getting at is that I think there is a significant ideological
split in the Republican party, so much so that people like my godmother,
a staunch Republican for more than 50 years, stepped out of the party
before she recently passed away. She disliked the growing influence of
the religious right (she was religious, but 
a firm believer in the separation of church and state) and the rise of
the shrill tone coming from people like Tom Delay and the
neo-conservatives who reminded 
her far too much of McCarthy and worse.

I am not registered with either party and have voted for both
Republicans and 
Democrats in the past. My allegiance belongs to the country and the
constitution, not an administration or a party. I vote for whom I feel
will do the best for 
the country as a whole, now and in the future.


Feli


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