OK, I chilled. I claim no party. Our forefathers never meant for us to have a party system. It just always aggravated the crap out of me to hear the inlaws say the union says vote straight Democrat so if you live in my house...

I am glad to say that my wife did not follow that rule.

My Dad also a union man rarely votes Democrat.

Texas huh, I thought all you cowboys were good publicans.

MDavis, I am curious as to what would make a person vote for a lousy candidate just because they are of the same party. Can you help me out with that?

Back where I belong trades/cigars and related. Those boards were slow so I slummed for a bit.

Think I'll smoke a Texas Star tonight.

http://www.ncpa.org/pd/economy/ecoa4d.html 

http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/031107e.asp 

You missed the train both times! You should've let the dog do your investing. He couldn't do any worse than you, and you could always blame him instead of the sitting Presidents!

Man, LBJ is doing 360s in his grave. 'Publicans are a fairly new species in Texas. This state was very Democratic until the last several years. What you have to understand is a lot of southern Democrats were pretty conservative. When the Democratic Party started moving to the left, the south started going 'publican. Damn traitors!

Your question about voting for a party candidate regardless of talent will take way to much time and energy to explain my views. While I appreciate your interest in trying to understand the "dark side", it may be a discussion for a later date. Suffice it to say both Republicans and Democratics partake of the evil fruit.

Enjoy your smoke tonight. I have an Indian Tabac lined up for this evening.

It's not called the "dark side", it's called being plain dumb!

Tongue planted firmly in cheek:
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An Essay By Former President William J. Clinton

Damn I’m freakin horny. I wish people would stop bothering me about foreign affairs; I don’t have time for that petty stuff. We just got this new intern and she’s making it difficult for me to concentrate. The other day her and I were… actually… I forgot what we where doing. In any case, her and I were doing something together and we got interrupted by one of my annoying aides. He tells me some of our military died in Somalia. As soon as I find out where this “Somalia” is, I’m going to pull those guys home… it doesn’t matter why they were there. Well, I’ll do that after I finish up with my new intern.

Someone tells me we had a Special Forces agent in Iraq putting together a resistance force against Saddam Hussein. They tell me he was just about to “pull the trigger” and have the resistance assassinate Saddam Hussein. He was just calling in for the final go ahead. I don’t know who this Saddam Hussein is, but as soon as I find out what “Special Forces” are, I’m going to court martial that guy. I just have to make sure that “Special” doesn’t mean he’s mentally retarded… can’t have that type of publicity.

That new intern is driving me crazy. She smiled at me today and all I could think about is what better things she could do with those lips. That’s probably why I lost some card with our new clearer launch codes on them. Everyone was panicking and running around looking for them. I don’t know what the big deal is, so they have some code that is new and clearer. Don’t we have copies of these things? Anyway, while that was going on, I got a new personal record golf score.

Hillary just got done yelling at me about some publicity stuff. She’s telling me to “take care” of some guys that “know” something or is investigating us. I’m getting tired to doing these things. Besides, I’m finding it hard to find new bodyguards.

DrMaddVibe

What a grouch!

Sylance

Bubba was fun wasn't he.

Davis...truth hurts THAT much?

Ok, I guess I'll take YOUR abuse too.

What one more kick? Besides, it's your foot not mine!

PT Barnum was right!

MDavis,

I guess you forgot about what Carter did to the economy in the 70's. Wasn't he a Democrat?

DrMaddVibe

Do you always get this emotional?

RobertParrott

Here every comedian needs a straight man. Lewis had Martin, Costello had Abbott and Reagan had Carter.

How you equate emotions into a post is beyond me.

I'm not an expert, but I was always told that typing in caps was akin to shouting. Since you appeared to be shouting at me, I guess I thought you were getting emotional. My mistake.