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The GOP's top brass merely pretends that it cares about the "regular folk" at Free Republic. The GOP is always glad to take their money and their votes, though, and is equally happy to use Free Republic as a distribution node for official party "talking points."

Right on!

Since I got here I have been saying the same thing but have been concentrating on the subject of oil. Big business controls the GOP, but I don't think this is because the party lacks ideals. It is because big business controls politics.

We all know very well that John McCain would have trounced Gore handily(not winning by the skin of his teeth with 500,000 fewer votes like Bush). Heck, even Taxachusetts Demcorats were lining up to vote for him.

The business big-wigs who line the pockets of politicians on both sides of the aisle (but of late more the GOP) were scared to death of a having a guy in the White House who wanted to bring our demcracy back to its routes. I don't agree with everything McCain stands for, but anyone who believes that America should be about American citizens and not about American corporations should do whatever it takes to reduce the influence of money in Washington.

You don't seriously think that those Mass liberals were going to vote for McCain in the genreal election do you? The whole Libs for McCain movement had two purposes... (1) to create a horserace for the media to follow, and (2) to create division in the GOP. If there had been a serious Democrat challenger to Gore, there is no way the dems would have crossed over in the primaries to vote for McCain.

GOPers can't win without conservatives, and McCain worked really hard to alienate all of them while pandering to the dems and the media. McCain was no better a candidate than Dole, because he had no core principals.

We are definitely coming to the same conclusion from two different vantage points. McCain is a nut case who should not be in public service.

He has sided with the demokrats and the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment crowd.

McCain is not the GOP's alternative.

I don't agree with everything McCain stands for, but anyone who believes that America should be about American citizens and not about American corporations should do whatever it takes to reduce the influence of money in Washington.

Typical bullshoot envy talk; sounds like Bill Clinton is posting again...obviously forgetting that the American Citizen "is" the American Corporation. Have you heard the average size of donations to George Bush?

Clinton gave us Monica, Bin laden and massive corporate accounting crimes, but HE wanted to bring democracy back to it's routes(roots). A political Party and a corporation is an organization of citizens that enable citizens to compete with governments and journalists.

McCain is a mouthpiece for those that want bigger government and those journalists who want citizens to depend on them for information(especially around election time).

We all know very well that John McCain would have trounced Gore handily

Beg to differ. But I am privy to some of the insider information on McCain and his wife that the Dems would have used to soil him and turn off our church going base.

Remember how excited a lot of FReepers were when Simon "won" the primary in California. Well, Davis used a lot of half-truths to smear him and sunk his ship, and Gore and his cohorts are just as nasty as Davis and would have had better material to work with if McCain had been our candidate.