This Fall, Choose Between A Republican and a Republican!

[Demeter]

The city of Ann Arbor held primaries Tuesday to select candidates for City Council in Wards 2 and 4. In each case, the contest in the Democratic column was between a Democrat and a former Republican who hadn't attained office running on the GOP ticket.

And in each case, the former Republican won the right to run for office, by margins of less than 100 votes in a thinly attended primary (only 1.5% turnout in the precinct I worked).

So this Novemeber, I get to choose between a Republican and a Republican. Some choice, no?

[XanaDUer]

1. Oh joy.

:eyes:

[Jara sang]

2. That's OK democrats will have a new name soon anyway...

detainees

[wli]

3. yep, that's about the size of it

Pure fascism.

[Ken Burch]

4. "we won't have a name when we ride the big aeroplane...

and all they will call us will be
Detainees"

(apologies to Woody Guthrie, but I think he'd understand...)

[flaminbats]

5. Coke or Pepsi?

Who would really notice if these two corporations merged together? When in power, Democrats viewed working with moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats as the most effective means of holding power. Now Democrats are not in power, but still view working with conservatives and moderates as the central role of our party. Since the sixties, Republicans have used bigotry and political mudslinging as weapons to obtain and hold power.

Stage one was to dehumanize liberalism, stage two was to take power, and stage three will be to merge the two parties. If Democrats really wanted to win, they would be slamming Hastert, Bush, and Frist on a nightly basis. What do we have to lose? Imagine if we couldn't change a station without seeing another Democrat slam weaselly W for passing the buck on healthcare, for being a threat to democracy, and for not protecting our nation on 9/11..but maybe some things are just too good to be true!! :cry:

Democrats don't want power, but Republicans do. It will not be long before the DNC and RNC merge..along with state parties, and then we have a one-party government. Loyalty to one's country will be determined by that citizen's loyalty to the Democratic-Republican party. If you are not loyal..you can only be an unGodly terrorist trying to destroy our sacred way of life. Enjoy your Diet Peske..no Dr. K allowed!! ;)

[Faab32]

6. I don't understand US plitics...

Hi,
For me, who lived in many countries, from brutal dictatorship to free and democtratic, the US political system is a strange one.

Why there are no discussion about PARTY politics in the US and it is always the person who is in the spotlight?

Why no one looks at how other countries work and learn from it?

It is amazing to me that a person like Liberman calls himself a democrat and gets the vote of democrats while he is much more conservative that a lot of Republicans.

BR,
/FA

[Odin2005]

7. It's because we gave a election system...

...that gives us 2 weak parties, instead of the many strong parties found in many other countries, with weak parties people end up voting on the canidates personality, rather than on the issues

If we get a new constitution in my lifetime, I hope we get a parlimentalry system with proprtional representation, something similar to the German Constitution.