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is over, it has become a new ballgame.
First, with Thompson out, the leading conservative has left the building, the R's left are still a sorry lot, but someone will come in to try and fill those weatherbeaten boots...oh sorry, that was his face. Let's just say, it will get a little more interesting as each of the remaining R's move downward into the maelstrom that is GOP.
Now, few things about the D candidates, and particularly now that the "truce" is over, (like there ever was one, this is politics, not beanbag).
For one thing, with all of the junk coming out creating all of the recent havoc here and on other progressive sites, we should not be not be squawking about it, but welcoming it. I for one do not like negative political races, but I also see a strategic move of genius in all of this, whether intended or not. If our own candidates are splattering mud out there, it leaves the R's nothing to do, and this is a good thing! If our own candidates berate each other and cast aspersions upon one another, they take away a primary tool of the neo-con R's. The R's will have nothing to "surprise" the electorate with. It will already be out there, and in politics, like comedy and procreation, timing is everything.
I still have no candidate I will back at this point. I think the best one has left the stage, Richardson, but still, there is great opportunity out there, who will seize the moment and actually begin talking about issues, is anyone's guess, but this the Primary...(and a horridly long one), and the idea is to look for backers and cash, not crush the opposing party. (Which brings to mind the notion that there is not much more crushing to do, since bush/cheney have pretty well destroyed the the GOP anyway).
But, my dear friends, look at last nights "debate" in a positive light...each time this stuff comes out, before the R's have a chance to go for the throat, it takes away from them just one more poison dart, and that is really a good thing...:)
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