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Third Parties on Right Could Be Problem for Bush
Reuters ^ | 6/21/04 | Rolando Garcia

Posted on 06/21/2004 5:41:56 PM PDT by freedom44

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1 posted on 06/21/2004 5:41:57 PM PDT by freedom44
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To: freedom44

Media salivation aside, the Constitution and Libertarian parties are hardly an issue in this election, IMHO.


2 posted on 06/21/2004 5:45:07 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: freedom44

An 'Accidental Democrat'. Hopefully, there are not too many like him.....as much as Reuters and Al Queada wish there were.


3 posted on 06/21/2004 5:45:22 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: freedom44

The media will try any angle they can to undermine Bush, while downplaying the serious threat Nader-Camejo will pose to Johm Kerry. Or the serious threat Kerry poses to himself, for that matter.


4 posted on 06/21/2004 5:48:16 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.freepgs.com/counterpunch)
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To: SunStar
NADER/CAMEHO in 2004

Whoo-hoo!

5 posted on 06/21/2004 5:49:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (I remember.)
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To: freedom44

Seems like the Republican Party isn't doing enough to keep some conservatives' votes!


6 posted on 06/21/2004 5:49:24 PM PDT by xrp
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To: San Jacinto

We've got plenty around here. But I'm not sure how "accidental" they are...


7 posted on 06/21/2004 5:49:29 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.freepgs.com/counterpunch)
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To: San Jacinto

An 'Accidental Democrat'. ??

No - let's try a "TRUE CONSERVATIVE!"

Now - will the RNC go back from whence it came? or will it continue its downward slope into the pits of socialsm?


8 posted on 06/21/2004 5:51:21 PM PDT by steplock (http://www.gohotsprings.com)
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To: freedom44
This has been a growing trend for some time now. If the Republican party doesn't stop acting like the Democrats/Socialists they will soon lose it all.

Too many RINOS's and too many spineless representatives, they need to go.


9 posted on 06/21/2004 5:53:20 PM PDT by unixfox (Close the borders, problems solved!)
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To: freedom44

I would like to see the Constitution Party get more coverage. I was one of 900 or so in the entire state of KY to vote for Howard Phillips in 2000. If it looked closer in KY I would have voted for Bush. He won with over 60%. I'll probably vote for Bush this time. Don't want to hear all the gargage about the popular vote again. Their platform is much more in line with the majority of Freepers than the Republican Part.


10 posted on 06/21/2004 5:53:31 PM PDT by RockDoc
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To: freedom44

The libertarians have been around for years yet they have rarely been a factor. Why is this year any different.


11 posted on 06/21/2004 5:53:59 PM PDT by THE MODERATE
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Yeah, and they'll all put on "Don't blame me, I voted for an obscure 3rd party candidate" after President Kerry loses the first city to a nuke. If the election of 2000 didn't demonstrate that EVERY vote counts, then nothing will. Get each state to switch over from winner takes all electoral votes to a scheme like Maine's or Nebraska's where the winner in each congressional district gets that electoral vote (and the winner of the popular vote gets the two "senatorial" votes) and THEN your 3rd party vote would count for something. The time for "sending a message" to the Republican party is over - that was the primary. In the general election, a Constitution party vote (other than in ME and NE) is as good as a vote for Kerry. Sorry, but that is reality in 2004.


12 posted on 06/21/2004 5:55:23 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004))
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To: xrp
Catering to each of these constituents would lose more votes than it would gain.....not to discount those issues or their seriousness ie; borders, immigration, etc.

We'll not solve them before November and never ever if Dems are in control.

13 posted on 06/21/2004 5:55:49 PM PDT by chiller (mainstream media = "Old" media and Old media is lyin' & dyin' .)
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To: freedom44
The Libertarian Party is filled with moral-liberals; there is nothing conservative about them except the occasional dupe.
14 posted on 06/21/2004 5:56:08 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: xrp
Seems like the Republican Party isn't doing enough to keep some conservatives' votes!

The Democrat Party is doing enough to keep my vote a Republican vote.

15 posted on 06/21/2004 5:57:25 PM PDT by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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To: freedom44
Oh ReuterRoter, Gee, I thought this was worth reading. Whisteling past the graveyard!

The leftist press reporting propaganda from the left again, as news....well, they can't find that! They couldn't find the news with both hands.

16 posted on 06/21/2004 5:59:09 PM PDT by timydnuc ("Give me Liberty, or give me death"!)
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To: SunStar
Media salivation aside, the Constitution and Libertarian parties are hardly an issue in this election, IMHO.

And George HW Bush was a shoo-in.  Perot was too bizarre to have an effect on a presidential election.  Third parties are irrelevant.

Keep on dancin' and whistlin' and maybe it will work out.   I mean, it's not like the 2000 election was close or anything.

17 posted on 06/21/2004 6:00:59 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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"Catering to each of these constituents would lose more votes than it would gain.....not to discount those issues or their seriousness ie; borders, immigration, etc."

Seems like you are right. Bush found more votes in catering to Specter RINOs than he did to supporting pro-life Toomey.

18 posted on 06/21/2004 6:01:56 PM PDT by ex-snook (Islam's WMD is our war against the birth of children.)
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To: freedom44
"Bush's) views no longer reflect my views, and I need to vote my principles."

Good for him. God knows we need more men of decency and principle in this country. Peroutka has my vote.. he spoke with judge Roy Moore last month in Nevada and is coming to CA next month. I know,.. people will cry "but he can't win. you're wasting your vote!"

In reply to that I tell them, "NO, I am not wasting my vote. you're wasting yours". People have not researched the issues and what is really going on in this country. They have no grasp of sovereignty or its importance.

Gun control, socialistic spending, appointing flaming homosexuals to prominant positions, open borders, FTAA, rewarding Pryor after he prosecuted Roy Moore, re-joining and funding UNESCO,. I kind of pity the mesmerized Bush loyalists; because although i do think that many of them are well intentioned, they really don't have a clue.

People are too busy eating their cheetos , watching ball games and american idol to really study what is happening to our republic.

19 posted on 06/21/2004 6:03:36 PM PDT by MindFire
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Even the darling of the Libertarian Party, Ron Paul, decided that the only way he could have any influence was to run as a Republican.

There are idealists and there are realists. Third party voters are not the latter.

20 posted on 06/21/2004 6:06:03 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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