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- 22pages, on 09/12/2008, -17/+118thank goodness someone is brave enough to say it.
- bbtweb, on 09/12/2008, -9/+88finally it's not just democrats who are saying it.
- HurricaneDitka1, on 09/12/2008, -6/+49We already have a wacko, she's probably more of a dot.
Now we just need a yacko. - 22pages, on 09/12/2008, -6/+39let me guess, you're voting for the easter bunny?
opting out of this election is cowardly. there are two really different directions this country can go in a hurry, and this election will determine which one wins out. - lopla, on 09/12/2008, -7/+40Palin is a pentecostal so what more does America need to know? As a Christian I am offended by these lunatics and their cult. She is here on "a mission from God", her church is ecstatic that she'll be able to deliver the "end times" WAKE THE HELL UP PEOPLE!!!
- thomasmck, on 09/12/2008, -8/+29She's a ***** WACKO. Dan Quayle can take the bag off his head, he's a ***** genius next to this idiot.
- flossdaily, on 09/12/2008, -4/+18This doesn't help the debate any more than when the Republicans jump on stupid minutia.
There are plenty of valid criticisms of Palin out there that are good arguments for her being corrupt, inexperienced, and dangerous to the education movement. We don't need to result to name calling or personal attacks about her ego. - Gherald, on 09/12/2008, -7/+20Reminds me of why I've always liked Chafee...it's a damn shame the rest of his party's incompetence got him kicked out in '06.
- scaaven2, on 09/12/2008, -1/+13comment is Not relevant
- Visual77, on 09/12/2008, -2/+14Probably about as much as an _Alaskan_Governor_and_Former_Microscopic_Town_Mayor_ would know about running the United States.
- Dalhectar, on 09/12/2008, -0/+12I disagree with people totally who say that.
First of all, a thid party candidate shows the world you don't agree with either of the main 2. It means that they don't represent your views. Such a voice will be recorded, and its placed right beside your or mine. In a winner take all system, none of the losers are accounted for. In most states, all the electors will go to the winner, and it doesn't matter if you vote for the loser with one less than 50% of the state's vote or 1 vote.
Let's say you are a Ron Paul supporter, who feels that the lack of a gold standard is what started the path of our country to a weak dollar and a flimzy economic backing. If both candidated support the FED Reserve and non-backed security... it really doesn't matter if you vote for McCain or Obama. Both will in your minds lead your country to ecominc ruin.
The choice to not vote sends an message that the person either doesn't believe in the process, or that the process is insignificant to them. A measure in our society of how disaffected people feel by the process is voter turnout.
Perhaps we should try to change our process so that it's more INCLUSIVE to people who feel disenfranchised.
Also, a choice looses its meaning when it is compelled. My vote is significant to me because I choose to vote. I don't want my vote diminished by others who don't care.
Bottom line, there are people who see the world outside of the views of the average America. An individual has a fundamental right to decide if the election amounts between Turd Sandwich and a Giant Douch, and act accordingly to their conscience. Compulsory voting between 2 false choice choices isn't much different from compulsory choice of 1 choice. Freedom means every individual can decide for themselves if the choice is valid or not and act accordingly.
Just because someone refuses to accept the choices they feel is unacceptable doesn't make them lazy. Lazy is us not doing more to bring them into the collective fold, and/or them not challenging the system by peaceful or non-peaceful means. - NuclearIsShit, on 09/12/2008, -8/+20Palin sounds like a squawky right winged seagull.
She's an oil seagull, who likes to fish and drill for stuff, I reckon. - gubbie, on 09/12/2008, -8/+20Here comes the "ZOMG SEXIST!!" from the conservatives...
- skellener, on 09/12/2008, -9/+20Former GOP senator calls Palin a 'cocky wacko'.
Well she is. - cubicledrone, on 09/12/2008, -3/+14I'm sure a number of people would like to know why this election is about pig ***** and lipstick instead of fixing the country.
- tomarocco, on 09/12/2008, -11/+21She's a crazy ***** bitch who's even advocating war with Russia because "we will not repeat a Cold War".
- ErickStevenson, on 09/12/2008, -4/+13Riiiiiiiight....
- Baskins, on 09/12/2008, -6/+15It's refreshing to see some scrutiny and some degree of integrity:
“Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill."
In other words - someone *who gets it*. - BoneheadFarker, on 09/12/2008, -7/+16Why does not voting for McCain or Obama automatically mean he's opting out? You can always vote for someone outside of the 2 ruling parties...
- pintomp3, on 09/12/2008, -0/+9it would be funny to watch conservatives try to equate cocky with being female.
- ironpirate, on 09/12/2008, -1/+10why is this news?
- derzhava, on 09/12/2008, -2/+10HOLY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA!!!!
It's part of God's plan. - kgunning, on 09/12/2008, -7/+15I heard Bristol is good at cocky wacko
- thelif, on 09/12/2008, -8/+16Congratulations on whipping out your balls and stepping over the party line. More politicians need to do the same because the current state of affairs is ridiculous. When something is stupid, say it is stupid. Not defend it because of your party affiliations. It is the same for Diggers, there is absolutely no need to defend McCain's campaign's absolutely abhorrent ads, say it like it is. You might defend certain Republican principles or believe in specific policies that McCain supports, but that does not mean ***** lie ads are worth defending. I'm not telling you to vote for Obama, just be more honest.
- yodanation, on 09/12/2008, -2/+10Boom, headshot.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_el_pr/pa ...
The Cold War was one of the best things to happen to this country. We didn't get annihilated or overthrown and the competition gave us all this wonderful technology you're using. Why go to war just to not have another Cold War? - Schmapdi, on 09/12/2008, -4/+12Wrong - Lincoln Chafee was a *gasp* reasonable rational republican who just didnt jive with the whackjob neocons. Unfortunately he was voted out of office in the great republican cleansing in 06' - mainly because he was lumped in (somewhat unfairly) with other corrupt, incompetent Republicans.
- Br3ach, on 09/12/2008, -7/+15Seems to an accurate assessment
- homercles337, on 09/12/2008, -0/+7True, because the Corporate Media is never going to say it.
- muckemuck, on 09/12/2008, -5/+12Same could be said for McCain - with the exception of him being a war-monger.
And that's why a whole lot of my family who have been voting Republican all their lives are disgusted and are not voting for him in November. The GOP might think picking the more conservative Palin might pacify us, but unless you're a dolt you know that a more conservative VP doesn't sway the policies of a moderate President. We saw that with Spiro Agnew - Richard Nixon and Dan Quayle - George H. W. Bush. - thaimyshoe, on 09/12/2008, -4/+11Dugg for the Animaniacs reference.
- flashback99, on 09/12/2008, -1/+8McCain has lost it, give it up Quad. you're just a running gag on digg now.
- HarryRag, on 09/12/2008, -0/+7Lol, 'you liberals' are gullibe? The liberals? Really? Republicans are the most gullible people on the ***** planet. Anything the GOP shoves down your throat you immediately buy it without questioning it or thinking for yourself. If you do question it and think for yourself, you'll end up supporting Ron Paul. (I'm an Obama supporter)
- insomniac8400, on 09/12/2008, -0/+6You have to watch the daily show. John Stewart showed clips of republicans a few months ago criticizing everything Palin was about. They 180'd once she was chosen. When Karl Rove and McCain staffers, and even Sarah Palin herself were saying things a few months ago that directly contradict her today, you know she is done. It's called lying, and Republican's are great at it.
- rz8472, on 09/12/2008, -2/+8Dan Quayle was a US senator for 6 years and a US congressman before he was on the VP ticket.
Him and Obama are like Cicero, Plato, Henry Clay, Bob LaFollette, FDR, and Jefferson combined compared to Palin. - thomasmck, on 09/12/2008, -0/+6What consciousNOT? Are you retarded? Do you even know how to spell? No wonder you idiots flock to Palin, you all speak the same retarded language.
- inactive, on 09/12/2008, -1/+7How do people become so dumb? Just how do you do it?
- rz8472, on 09/12/2008, -6/+12Lincoln Chafee is a class act; it's a shame that moderate Republicans are extinct or have been assimilated into the fundamentalist right. He was also the only GOP senator to vote against the Iraq War and the only GOP senator to speak out in favor of gay marriage.
- TBombadil, on 09/12/2008, -1/+6naw hes right dude, the GOP talks about "morals"(which you they don't believe in as their actions prove), then they give petty tax rebate checks that ultimately count for nothing when it comes to helping out the common man, and then they give massive tax cuts to the rich(who can afford taxes), IN ADDITION they clearly can't do ***** to defend our country, because they lack the basic ability to interpret and act on basic intelligence data......as they admitted when they had to own up to the fact that they couldn't find ***** in Iraq. so what, please tell me, because no one seems to be able to, makes the GOP so attractive to you?
- apextek, on 09/12/2008, -1/+6only if you see both as evil.
even though the clinton admin had evil tendencies, they were a saint to the economy in my book - flashback99, on 09/12/2008, -0/+5maybe you're actually a racist.
- evilbob333, on 09/12/2008, -0/+5Don't get me wrong, Joe Lieberman is a fine man, but aside from the issues of the war in Iraq, he is a reliably liberal Democrat. To imply that he is to the Democrat party what Chafee is to the Republican party is wrong. There were many issues that Chafee split from the Republican party on. And to call him anything resembling a conservative doesn't pass the milk through the nose test, much less the giggle test. If anything I would call him the Zell Miller of the GOP, but that would imply that the Republican party had moved so far to the right from where it started out when he had joined.
- IllBeBack, on 09/12/2008, -7/+12"You can always vote for someone outside of the 2 ruling parties."
And then your vote will count for ... what? - SpamBurger, on 09/12/2008, -1/+6A clear conscience maybe? Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. If your political views are best expressed by a third party candidate and you choose to vote for one of the two major candidates just to keep the other guy from winning is true cowardice.
- DangerCollie, on 09/12/2008, -7/+11Yeah, because ya can't blink on dem Russians, ya know. Just like a big Kodiak bear, ya gotta look 'em in the eye and show 'em who's boss, ya know?
I wish someone would have asked her to point to Georgia on a map. lol. - nemo001, on 09/12/2008, -5/+9True, it is former senator, Independent, Obama supporter, Lincoln Chafee.
- hierophantus, on 09/12/2008, -0/+4Another idiot who thinks the Republicans have a monopoly on religion.
- deleo, on 09/12/2008, -7/+11I'm glad he said that Palin has fired up the left. Everyone talks about how much she has fired up the right. Well I gave my first $100 to Obama the day that Palin gave her speech at the Republican Convention. I thought that no one who is that nasty and sarcastic should have any business being one step away from the Presidency. The right is fired up, the left is fired up, it will be up to the independent swing voters to decide if they want Palin or not.
- dondara, on 09/12/2008, -2/+6Hehe Suck it Flux, AP wire story.
- hierophantus, on 09/12/2008, -0/+3Oh come on. That was *funnily* offensive, people.
- omjeremy, on 09/12/2008, -3/+6It's just comforting to many digg users to read that others feel the same way about Palin. It's a release... turn on the TV (I don't have one) and you watch Palin and McCain, it makes many of us want to puke. Hearing that other people, even politicians, feel the same way makes us feel better. All we can do is vote and try to convince others not to vote for McCain/Palin. In the meantime, I don't mind reading these articles.
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