[quote=briansd1][quote=flu] The person could be black/blue/purple/green/racist, anti-asian/fundamentalist/pornstar/or half dead wearing depend garments, so long as the person has a shot at defeating their Democrat counterpart. I could care less. [/quote]

That’s how people like Christine O’Donnell and Sarah Palin get into power.

With obstruction, you can kiss goodbye to progress and to an effective and coherent industrial/economic policy. As other nations advance their economic agendas, we’ll just stagnate.

In any race, I look at the specific race and I compare each candidate’s ideas. I vote for the best ideas.[/quote]

HA HA HA….

Think about what you just said because it’s contradictory… Our current governement made progress, effective, coherent industrial/economic policies????
Are we talking about the United States??

All else being equal, the best policy is to neuter the government’s ability to make change.

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But emotions does seem to drive many votes, especially among the working-class in the Red States and in the red areas along the coasts.
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Personally, I find the intellectual snobbery quite funtertainment…. (Oh shit, there I go again, making up words like Palin)