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You misread and misunderstand what I said. I do not "campaign for Dems," as you say. Never have. Never will.

What I do is describe as accurately as I can the facts on the ground of any political situation. Here in the 11th District race for Congress, the facts are: Heath Shuler is an empty suit, with no political experience, who is beholden to the unions for much of his support. He claims to be "a conservative" but if he votes with his financial backers, he will display himself as a liberal in short order.

Second set of facts: Democrats and Republicans are about even in registration in this District. Still, the District is strongly conservative because many of the Democrats are Zell Miller types who have no use for "San Francisco liberals." (Speaking of which, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi donated $4,000 to Schuler.) In state and national elections, this District consistently votes more conservative than North Carolina as a whole.

Third set of facts: The 16-year incumbent, Charles Taylor, has consistently voted for conservative positions on legislation in the House. However, he has a long and growing history of questionable and possibly corrupt financial transactions. He was involved with Abramoff in a well-publicized deal concerning the Chippewa Tribe and its casino in Minnesota.

Resulting fact: multiple, independent polls have been showing for a month that the voters of the 11th District prefer Heath Shuler by a significant margin. Shuler has room for his support to grow, since he is not universally known in the District. Taylor has no room to grow, since (for better or worse) he is universally known.

Put those facts together, and you reach the logical conclusion that Shuler will probably defeat Taylor in November. And if that is so, then I should plan to run against Shuler in 2008, which is exactly what I am looking at. I am not, however, campaigning for or against either Shuler or Taylor. Whoever wins, the District will get a defective Congressman from 2006 to 2008.

How do you translate that into a conclusion that I am "campaigning for Dems"?

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I ran in the primary against Taylor because it is his time to be defeated. I couldn't beat him in the primary, but it looks like Heath Shuler (former football player, current Democrat) will defeat him. Then, in 2008, I'll take a look at going against Shuler, who is an empty suit.

I think that any reasonable person would say that that you are campaigning for Shuler to defeat Taylor, despite your protestation of neutrality.

I understand that you may hope to run against Shuler in 2008 but; it is inexcusable to want to put the Pelosi/Murtha gang in power, even in the hope of later dethroning them.