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To: quidnunc

So all it takes to stay in power is to rally behind a cause inimical to our best interests?

If I wanted that I'd be a Democrat.


5 posted on 10/12/2005 6:12:20 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Bush's judicial philosophy - Aliens' rights > your rights)
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To: thoughtomator
So all it takes to stay in power is to rally behind a cause inimical to our best interests?

If I wanted that I'd be a Democrat.

BUMP!

To some, it is "ideologization"...
To others, it's called "integrity"...

10 posted on 10/12/2005 6:15:57 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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Just remember, the interest of the individual is secondary to the interests of the party comrade.
11 posted on 10/12/2005 6:15:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: thoughtomator
thoughtomator wrote: So all it takes to stay in power is to rally behind a cause inimical to our best interests? If I wanted that I'd be a Democrat.

No, it means that in order to be a successful politician you have to walk the line between a lot of competing interests, and it's usually not possible to eget everything you want.

So the choice is between compromising ibn such a way as to advance your agenda a little at a time, or howling the cant of your pure ideology in the political wilderness while the othere guy advances HIS agenda.

15 posted on 10/12/2005 6:19:34 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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