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...but we call those ones "Canadians" now.

"No matter how much lipstick you put on the taxation pig, it's still a pig... and it's currently snout-down in your wallet." - Michael Fisk

Yep Carter even pardoned them, so that they could return to the US and become teachers.

...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...

---Thomas Paine---

To know him is to hate him.

The more I learn about Carter, the more I realize that History has not been fair to him. In fact, he's even WORSE then most people thought he was.

"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas

....registration advantage is due to "operation chaos", and/or Rs strategically voting in the Dem primary? I'm not saying it's not possible, I'm just curious to get a perspective from someone on the ground out there.

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

Because every time Clinton and Obama speak they're doing their best to ensure that this doesn't happen. That's the position I'm in. Unfortunately just about every time McCain speaks on economic issues he's doing his best to offset that.

But of course Democrats are deserting, it's because the Republicans are running a liberal/moderate candidate. Either way the country moves to the left.

....at least on fiscal issues, and especially spending.

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

In others, no, not at all. He's definitely not a small government Republican in the Reagan tradition, and you have to pretty willfully ignore a lot of evidence to think so. It's pretty obvious that his opposition to earmarks, for example, is more due to the inherently corrupting nature of them, than to being opposed to actually spending the money. I get the sense that if things were open and actually debated, he's not opposed to the projects in principle. He said this, for example.

"Transparency and knowledge are the only antidote to the corruption that is bred by earmarks, the gateway to corruption."

There are many other similar statements out there. On tax policy it's hard to argue that he's to the right of President Bush because he's been all over the place. On government regulation of business, and the creation of new government programs it's pretty easy to argue that he's to the left of President Bush.

And his adoption of the class rhetoric of the left on fiscal matters is also especially troubling. But he is who he is, and we're stuck with him. Conservative on some few issues, moderate on most, very liberal on a few. In this climate I wish we had a better candidate. But we don't.

....when few in his part did. He's got his problems, but he is more fiscally conservative than Bush.

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”