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[Peace Patriot]

...discussion on Republican attitudes. As their discussion shows, we really, really, really need to make a distinction between Republicans and what I call "BushCons." We often refer to Republicans here at DU as "Repukes." I think those who use the term (sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, mostly I don't) are trying to express their extreme revulsion at BUSH & CO. But we seldom acknowledge that BushCons are fascists who have TAKEN OVER the Republican Party.

I remember a Cliff Arnebeck interview, around the time he filed the lawsuit, in which he spoke of Republican precincts in So. Ohio where Republican votes for Kerry had been changed to Bush, and that this kind of fraud was likely to be widespread because no one would normally give it a second look. (Note: Arnebeck himself is a Republican!)

Wouldn't it be ironical of the bulk of the election fraud had been perpetrated against REPUBLICANS who were repudiating Bush?

I have personal experience of quite a few Republicans who hate Bush and voted for Kerry. And I've heard and read NUMEROUS stories of the same--so many that I believe it to be a significant phenomenon.

I've always been a Democrat (Democratic family tradition), but I did know some Republicans in my youth. I gained an impression of Republican Party members as upright, fair, honest, and, on some issues, way ahead of the Democrats. In California (where I was raised), it was the REPUBLICANS who were the environmentalists! (In fact, that's why it took ME so long to become an environmentalist myself--I really didn't understand the issue until much later, because it was way low on the CA Democratic agenda throughout my youth.)

The Republican Party produced people like Earl Warren--Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who ended segregation in public schools, and presided over many a citizen rights decision.

Of course, the CA Republican Party also produced Nixon--a McCarthyite--but even Nixon had quite moderate and civic-minded views on many issues, including the environment. (He signed the EPA into law.)

I've sometimes thought that the War Party--that is, the war profiteer Dems and Repubs--used Watergate to get rid of Nixon because, a) he was actually trying to end the Vietnam War at the time, and resisted using nukes to win it; b) his trip to China, trying to open up trade with an arch-enemy communist state; and c) his trip to Soviet Russia--the 1st US president ever to visit that country. (I think this NOW. I was all for impeaching him THEN.)

Anyway, my point is: BushCons vs. Republicans. We shouldn't presume that all Republicans are "Repukes" (that is, BushCons).

We are ALL--ALL!-- at the mercy of the Political Establishment, which is so compromised by the corruption of the military-industrial complex that they cannot NOT do war! They CANNOT achieve world peace! It's not even on their agenda. Their pockets are padded with war!

And guess who warned us against THAT????