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I am a swing voter

Posted on 08/12/2004 12:05:29 AM PDT by Lepidopteran

I am a swing voter, neither Republican nor Democrat. I supported President Bush in his response to September 11 and I supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But I like John Kerry's message about the need to do something about the people in this country who have no health insurance. It's a hard choice.


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To: Lepidopteran
Who do you trust to tell the truth and then follow through on what is the best for America and Americans?

Hard fact is, Kerry froze up during the Cold War ***Many leaders had a hand in Washington's Cold War triumph, but Ronald Reagan's contributions were pivotal, and Kerry opposed every one of them. Reagan's defense buildup disabused Soviet leaders of any hope that they could ultimately come out ahead of the United States. Kerry derided these military expenditures as "bloated" and "without any relevancy to the threat." In particular, Reagan's plan to seek a missile defense system against Soviet ICBMs and NATO's decision to station new missiles in Europe to counteract the new Soviet deployment there rendered futile the Kremlin's vast investment in nuclear supremacy. Instead of these measures, Kerry advocated that we adopt a one-sided "nuclear freeze."

Reagan also showed the Soviets that history was not necessarily on their side by ousting the erratic communist regime in Grenada and arming anti-communist guerrillas to challenge the leftist oligarchs of Nicaragua. Kerry condemned the U.S. action in Grenada as "a bully's show of force," and he opposed our support for guerrillas in Nicaragua as vociferously as anyone in the Senate, even traveling to Managua to try to cut a deal with Sandinista strongman Daniel Ortega to thwart Reagan's policy.

Reagan also put the United States on the ideological offensive when he branded the Soviet Union an "evil empire." But Kerry's harshest words were reserved for our own country, which he accused - during his years as an antiwar leader - of "crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."***

141 posted on 08/12/2004 1:07:08 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: SoDak

I agree. Alot of these ZOT threads end up castigating the initial thread poster, rather than persuading that poster to vote for who they're voting for. It's the same thing with grassroots Get Out The Vote efforts.


142 posted on 08/12/2004 1:07:10 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Nobody But Bush | Kerry/Edwards: Re-inventing the we'll)
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To: GeronL; CaliGirlGodHelpMe; Auntie Mame; xJones; Billthedrill; Dead Corpse
I apologize for what I'm about to do.

Execrable, maudlin Bon Jovi song ahead.

INCOMING!

Your love is like bad medicine

Bad medicine is what I need

Shake it up, just like bad medicine

So let's play doctor. baby

Cure my disease...

Don't say you weren't warned.

143 posted on 08/12/2004 1:08:38 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Sit Ubu. Sit. "(Woof!) "Good dog. ")
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To: Darkwolf377

"If you're seriously thinking about who to vote for based not on the good of the country but your own pocketbook, you should probably vote for kerry"

you think Kerry taxing us death would be good for our wallets how?


144 posted on 08/12/2004 1:08:42 AM PDT by Remington Rebel
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To: GeronL


Trial lawyers and lawsuits are driving doctors out of the business.

Fewer providers and more customers means higher prices

Government mandates and regulations that make the insurance more expensive. A single guy is not going to need coverage for a hysterectomy. But
government mandated it be covered and he has no choice. $$$$$ Its expensive to cover everything and without choices a lot of peiople choose to do
without.

John Kerry wants more lawsuits, more mandates and more regulations

Kerry is BAD medicine.





BUMP!!!


145 posted on 08/12/2004 1:08:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: SoDak

While I see your points in your #127, the fact remains that missionary work is not easy around 3:00AM CST.


146 posted on 08/12/2004 1:09:04 AM PDT by xJones
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To: orlop9
Jeez, your reply is the best one yet. Yours should have been the ONLY reply. Would have saved the rest of us a lot of frenzied typing.

Anyone even CONSIDERING Leftist economic policies should be forced to read Walter Williams a-la Clockwork Orange.

147 posted on 08/12/2004 1:09:31 AM PDT by walford (http://utopia-unmasked.us)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Exactly. I just wrapped up a night of talking to voters at the county fair, and cajoling the populace into seeing things the way we see them. Don't exactly get to zot Joe Blow. You hope you can, in a short time, convince him voting for your guy is the right thing to do.


148 posted on 08/12/2004 1:09:39 AM PDT by SoDak
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To: xJones

Yeah, particularly when the only ones up at 3:00 AM are snipers and milkmen! (A little 3rd World humor there)


149 posted on 08/12/2004 1:10:41 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Nobody But Bush | Kerry/Edwards: Re-inventing the we'll)
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To: Lepidopteran

What we need is to allow insurance companies and customers to be able to mold a policy to fit each individual. We need to stop the crazy lawsuits, mandates and regulations that harm doctors, companies and especially patients. We need less government interference and intrusion into the healthcare system.


150 posted on 08/12/2004 1:10:45 AM PDT by GeronL (KERRY: "I went to Cambodia with the CIA and all I got was a hat")
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To: Slings and Arrows; cyborg
Yes, but you were just commenting upon my tag.

I need my anti-Hussein gibes to be validated through positive reinforcement.

Insecure guy, to psychotherapist:

I NEED VALIDATION!!!

151 posted on 08/12/2004 1:11:32 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Sit Ubu. Sit. "(Woof!) "Good dog. ")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Man, that WAS bad.


152 posted on 08/12/2004 1:11:51 AM PDT by GeronL (KERRY: "I went to Cambodia with the CIA and all I got was a hat")
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To: BigSkyFreeper


I am not a Democrat plant. I'm just me, but no one here believes that. That's OK. Thank you all for teaching me a lesson I wish I had never learned.

Lepidopteran


153 posted on 08/12/2004 1:12:02 AM PDT by Lepidopteran
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To: SoDak

New FReepers do not start out by posting vanities.... ever... they lurk... they comment... they post a few redundant threads.... and then they adopt the FReeper style of living....

Moby's follow the sign up, wait, make a few stupid comments, then post liberal slanted vanities....

I'm reading the formula....


154 posted on 08/12/2004 1:12:17 AM PDT by Porterville (Your sensitivity offends me you disgusting liberal.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I guess I should have used more examples but I would have to start googling.


155 posted on 08/12/2004 1:12:45 AM PDT by GeronL (KERRY: "I went to Cambodia with the CIA and all I got was a hat")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

156 posted on 08/12/2004 1:12:56 AM PDT by Watery Tart (WARNING: Incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige.)
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To: Lepidopteran

There can't be any form of free health-care Lepidopteran.

If you did go with some government version, that would be socialism.
The cost of such socialism would be over 20% of every worker's check at least.

Not only that, but if it government controlled, the quality would go to cr@p.

I have lots of doctor friends and they say LAWSUITS are the reason for the higher costs and trial lawyers and their lawsuits need to be reformed and that will get what you would like to have done.

There is no such thing as free or subsidized health-care in Kerry's idea. The big plan is to have the government take it over and to then bill you through your salary for the pleasure of government ruining it.

That is a serious answer to you question.

Have any more detailed questions to ask, do so and I'll answer or go to sources to find answers for you.


157 posted on 08/12/2004 1:13:09 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: BJungNan
And lets not forget, Kerry has had 30 years as a Senator to do something about it -

Wait! He's only been in the Senate 20 years. Obviously not long enough to expect anything of him. ;-)

158 posted on 08/12/2004 1:13:14 AM PDT by maryz
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To: GeronL

We also need to turn health insurance, for the most part, into something like a 401K. People need to have a personal stake in going to the doctor. Got the sniffles? Gonna cost ya to waste the doctor's time, not gonna be able to bill it to some generic company and forget it. Health has been missing the real free market for too long, which is why costs have skyrocketed.


159 posted on 08/12/2004 1:13:48 AM PDT by SoDak
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To: The Scourge of Yazid; Neets; Darksheare; scott0347; timpad; KangarooJacqui; Conspiracy Guy; ...



Why a' no one respondez to my berry funny comment number 48?

It a' an hilarioso comment, no?(!)

It a' one a da funniest on a' dis "ZOT" tread, no?

Ima so sad, Ima go look ata my buttafly collecion.

(Weeping.)





Bloody.

Because I am in the proccess of moving, and have been all summer.


It's all I do. boxes, and llamas.

I am having to do it slowly and by hand.

( Why? Freepmail if you want the gorey details but trust me , you do NOT! want to)

I do not get every ping right away, and I cannot respond to everything.


Here's this:

IF you cough up a hairball, or challenge me to a dual, i WILL leap through your monitor and pound you.

I have been moving stuff for months, I am in decent shape and my temper is short just now.

So there.


160 posted on 08/12/2004 1:14:08 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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