uncle wilco

i think dubya's 8 years of error have thankfully assured us that no other bush family members will ever be elected to national office ever again. i guess that's one thing he can take credit for. and i think you need at least 3 viable PARTIES to claim a democracy. what we have now seems far from it especially rotating bush/clinton/bush/clinton. screw that.

as far as i'm concerned, that was metallica's fault, not their fans of old.

the first two jason falkner records he released. author unknown and can you still feel? top notch power pop. after those, his stuff is hit and miss. to me, the fact that he played everthing on those records himself is amazing.

that's why i keep my faith personal and don't subscribe to any particular denomination. i see no use for it.

hey, Republicans piss me off all the time lately. it's all good

i sure do miss the Weezer of old. oh, what could have been.

umm...me neither. considering that the current slate of Republican candidates are completely embarrassing and lacking in any vision and leadership. they seem completely oblivious to true conservative issues. i'm hoping a Democrat in the white house wakes the real conservatives out of their coma. that is, if there are any still out there. i sure as hell don't see any. it's been a few decades now.

the "whack-job" term is not exclusive to the left. there are rightist whack-jobs too. very influential ones as you've noted. there..you feel better now? some people sure have some thin skin around here. i just don't understand how both parties aren't held in contempt by informed people like you john. two failed "visions" for the future are recycled election after election. now it's the democrats turn to f*ck things up for the next 4 to 8 years. have at it.

i could also run off a list of leftist whack-jobs that would soon be scheduling their sleep-overs in the lincoln bedroom if/when the dems take over. but really...what's the point?

i believe my response to that question is around pages 19-21 of this thread. i don't feel like repeating myself. i will say that there is no possible scenario that i would EVER vote for Hillary...ever.

i haven't been a Republican for 15 years. i'm an independent conservative likely to vote for Obama simply for the lack of any viable conservative in the race. i do not simply vote Republican by default. i can't stand the current Republican field besides Thompson, who's NOT going to get the nod. have you not paid any attention to what i've been saying?

that's a good question. the fact that no one has yet surged ahead from the pack is not a good sign for the GOP. it's a deeply divided party which could easily be swayed to the other side come election day. it's comical to me that Thompson finished 3rd in Iowa, yet McCain (the media darling and 4th place finisher) got more press coverage. it's fitting that Fred is a 4 letter word, because his name is never uttered by the networks. Fred is the only across-the-board conservative in the race and the GOP is so fractured by Bush's ineptitude, there's no one left in the GOP to rally around Fred. t

i think another 4 years of bush has thinned out the GOP faithful quite thoroughly. he has completely ruined the party in the span of his two terms. by the time we cast our ballots we very well may be looking at a landslide victory for the DEMS. unless hillary gets the nod. heaven forbid that happens.

no. i'm tired of re-tread politicians. we need new blood. and yet, here i am pulling for thompson on the GOP side. mccain is weak as a candidate imo. he's the bob dole of this years campaign. nice guy, but insignificant.

because besides thompson, i absolutely hate the rest of the field in the GOP. they might as well be democrats. they certainly act that way. obama seems like the candidate most able to build a consensus between the parties and actually get some stuff done for a change. plus, somebody has to win this thing.

ha, ha pat robertson is an a-hole and nobody i respect. no sir, that's the truth. if he gets the nomination and thompson doesn't get the GOP nod (which he won't). obama will be my front-runner.

any odds yet on which county in florida is gonna screw it up this year?

as i see it: the republicans abandoned conservative principles with their political victories, which had given them a sense of entitlement. they arrogantly decided to move the political fence to create a bigger political yard for themselves. they worked to attract moderates in a foolish power grab and alienated true conservatives (such as me) from their ranks and caused many to leave the party. what passes as the GOP now is a total joke. republicans sabotaged themselves with greed and corruption. we then get bush spending our money like a teenager with his dad's credit card and a war we h

RIP to a beautiful soul. you are missed.

according to polls that i've heard, 50% of hillary's OWN party would never vote for her. of course, the GOP feels the same way. of all the democrats, Obama has the best chance to work with the other side of the aisle in my opinion.

"the sky is falling!...the sky is falling!" -chicken little hey, politics are here again...yay!? guess what? the longer i've been on VC, the less passionate i've become politically. is it because i'm older and more jaded? or because VC has opened my eyes to other points of view? i think it's both. one thing i will not pursue is belittling other points of view with 19 paragraphs of a letter to an imaginary pastor. i respect your time far too much to waste it like that. in a nutshell, i'm a conservative independent. i would favor thompson on the republican side, but would vote for no on