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William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the Senate. Scandals include Whitewater - Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate - Filegate - Vince Fostergate - Whitewater Billing Recordsgate - Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate - Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate - Lippogate - Chinagate - The Lewinsky Affair - Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate - Kathleen Willeygate - Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate - Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate - Jaunita Broaddrick Gate - Lootergate - Pardongate

Edward Moore Kennedy - Democrat - U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.

Barney Frank - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman's Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.

DNC - The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct.

Sandy Berger - Democrat - National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration. Berger became the focus of a criminal investigation after removing highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.

Robert Torricelli - Democrat - Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996.

James McGreevey - Democrat - New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.

Jesse Jackson - Democrat - Democratic candidate for President. Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child.

Gary Condit - Democrat - US Democratic Congressman from California. Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park..

Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde - Democrat - the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.

Daniel David Rostenkowski - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995. Indicted on 17 felony charges- pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal prison.

Melvin Jay Reynolds - U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison.

Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1955 to 1980. Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms- sentenced to three years in prison.

George Rogers - Democrat - Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970. M000ember of Massachusetts State Senate from 1975 to 1978. Convicted of bribery in 1978 and sentenced to two years in prison.

Don Siegelman - Democrat Governor Alabama - indicted in a bid-rigging scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care.

John Murtha, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator

Gerry Eastman Studds - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1973 to 1997. The first openly gay member of Congress. Censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relations with a teenage House page.

James C. Green - Democrat - North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1961 to 1977. Charged with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted. Convicted of tax evasion in 1997.

Frederick Richmond - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1975 to 1982. Arrested in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer - pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Also - charged with tax evasion, marijuana possession, and improper payments to a federal employee - pleaded guilty.

Raymond Lederer - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting - convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.

Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1959 to 1970. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a titanium mine. Convicted of nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000.

Frank Thompson, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1955 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting, convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. Sentenced to three years in prison

Michael Joseph Myers - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting - convicted of bribery and conspiracy; sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000; expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980.

John Michael Murphy - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1963 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest, and accepting an illegal gratuity. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.

John Wilson Jenrette, Jr - Democrat - U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges and sentenced to prison

Neil Goldschmidt - Democrat - Oregon governor. Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as Mayor of Portland.

Alcee Lamar Hastings - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Florida. Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery charges.

Marion Barry - Democrat - mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1999. Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Sentenced to six months in prison.

Mario Biaggi - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1969 to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted on 15 felony counts.

Lee Alexander - Democrat - Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985. Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison.

Bill Campbell - Democrat - Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts.

Frank Ballance - Democrat - Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation.

Hazel O'Leary - Democrat - Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration - O'leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many 50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during her concert tours.

Lafayette Thomas - Democrat - Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison.

Mary Rose Oakar - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling $16,000 through fake donors.

David Giles - Democrat - candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington in 1986 and 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape.

Gary Siplin - Democrat state senator Florida- found guilty of third-degree grand theft of $5,000 or more, a felony, and using services of employees for his candidacy.

Edward Mezvinsky - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1973 to 1977. Indicted on 56 federal fraud charges.

Lena Swanson - Democrat - Member of Washington State Senate in 1997. Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful payments from veterans and former prisoners of war.

Abraham J. Hirschfeld - Democrat - candidate in Democratic primary for U.S. Senator from New York in 1974 and 1976. Offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Convicted in 2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner.

Henry Cisneros - Democrat - U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI.

James A. Traficant Jr. - Member of House of Representatives from Ohio. Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges. Sentenced today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks.

John Doug Hays - Democrat - member of Kentucky State Senate from 1980 to 1982 Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge. He was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of probation.

Henry J. Cianfrani - Democrat - Pennsylvania State Senate from 1967 to 1976. Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll. Sentenced to five years in federal prison.

David Hall - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1971 to 1975. Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges. Convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.

John A. Celona - Democrat - A former state senator was charged with the three counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp. and others while serving in the legislature. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest in legislation. Under the deal, Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators. He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a $250,000 fine

Allan Turner Howe - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Utah from 1975 to 1977. Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute.

Jerry Cosentino - Democrat - Illinois State Treasurer. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud - fined $5,000 and sentenced to nine months home confinement.

Joseph Waggonner Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1961 to 19 79. Arrested in Washington, D.C. for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute

Albert G. Bustamante - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Texas from 1985 to 1993. Convicted in 1993 on racketeering and bribery charges and sentenced to prison.

Lawrence Jack Smith - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Florida from 1983 to 1993. Sentenced to three months in federal prison for tax evasion.

David Lee Walters - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.

James Guy Tucker, Jr. - Democrat - Governor of Arkansas from 1992 to 1996. Resigned in July 1996 after conviction on federal fraud charges as part of the Whitewater investigation.

Walter Rayford Tucker - Democrat - Mayor of Compton, California from 1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion.

William McCuen - Democrat - Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985 to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Walter Fauntroy - Democrat - Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony count and sentenced to probation.

Carroll Hubbard, Jr. - Democrat - Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to 1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of government property; sentenced to three years in prison.

Joseph Kolter - Democrat - member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty.

Webster Hubbell - Democrat - Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges - sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Nicholas Mavroules - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting gratuities while in office.

Carl Christopher Perkins - Democrat - Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison.

Richard Hanna - Democrat - U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in what became known as the "Koreagate" influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.

Angelo Errichetti - Democrat - New Jersey State Senator was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam.

Daniel Baugh Brewster - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Maryland. Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate.

Thomas Joseph Dodd - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use

Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. - Democrat - Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison.

Jerry Springer - Democrat - Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor.

Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. - Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate.

Daniel Flood - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation.

Otto Kerner, Jr - Democrat - Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $50,000.

George Crockett, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan. Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government.

Cornelius Edward Gallagher - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1959 to 1973. Indicted on federal charges of income tax evasion, conspiracy, and perjury

Mark B. Jimenez - Democrat fundraiser - sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit election financing offenses.

Bobby Lee Rush - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge.

Bolley ''Bo'' Johnson - Democrat - Former Florida House Speaker - received a two-year term for tax evasion.

Roger L. Green - Democrat - Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation.

Gloria Davis - Democrat - Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to second-degree bribe-taking.
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Originally posted by PBA:
Why do Republican administrations feel compelled to commit major crimes? WHY?

Watergate - Iran Contra - Savings and Loan scandal - lies about WMD's = all republican administrations

Why then does the republican party stand behind its' criminals come hell or high water?


I agree with Ubermensch. Why is it always Republicans vs. Democrats with you ?

This country is on the road to hell, and the only thing the Republicans and Democrats are worried about is who will be the leader when we get there!!! Mad
I think it is ironic that either party, Demo or Repub, claim to have the American people's best interest at heart. But when the curtain is drawn we, as a country, vote for these rotten scoundrels.

There isn't one person, that has a good reason for voting a jack*ss or an elephant in office. All one has to do is look at their record for overwhelming evidence.

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On another note, a true philosophical forum is a great idea. Philosophy is to man as operating software is to a computer. It is who you are......
In the last 25 years, 59 congressmen have been convicted of felonies. Fifty of them were democrats. Republicans are just catching up.

Savings and loan problem was a series of bad decisions made worse by federal interference, not illegality. S&Ls were granted permission to make loans to businesses, they were not allowed to, in the past. May loans went bad, and the feds encouraged consolidation of healthy S&Ls with ones with bad loans. The S&Ls were to be given 49 years to writeoff the bad loans. Then, congress (mostly democratic)inteferred and made the S&Ls writeoff the loans over a couple of years. This drove most of the S&Ls in to bankruptcy. The Feds were stuck with clean up and recompensing accounts. Later, the Supreme court found congress and made an illegal rule under the law of contracts (unconstitutional). The Fed have to payoff a number of shareholders of the old S&Ls as well.

No illegality, just fed making matters worse. It took Wall Street to cause a great fall in the market. It took congress to turn it into the Great Depression.
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Originally posted by midknightrider:
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Originally posted by PBA:
Why do Republican administrations feel compelled to commit major crimes? WHY?

Watergate - Iran Contra - Savings and Loan scandal - lies about WMD's = all republican administrations

Why then does the republican party stand behind its' criminals come hell or high water?


I agree with Ubermensch. Why is it always Republicans vs. Democrats with you ?

This country is on the road to hell, and the only thing the Republicans and Democrats are worried about is who will be the leader when we get there!!! Mad


So, are you worried about my soul? You need to wake up to what is under your nose and you will see that both parties are big money makers and do not care about the people!
Where's The FOX News Coverage Of Republican Scandals?
Reported by Ellen - May 5, 2006
In a recent interview, FOX News CEO Roger Ailes countered criticism of FOX News' conservative bias by saying, “Bias is not what you say; it’s what you eliminate. We don’t eliminate anybody. Everybody gets equal time. They do eliminate a conservative voice at many of these other networks, therefore we appear to be more conservative, because we treat the conservative point of view with as much respect as we treat the liberal point of view. We have as much bashing of the current administration over here.” Oh, really? Then let’s ask FOX News when we can expect to hear some discussions about allegations of Republican wrong-doing to balance out the ones about the Democrats.

For example, Cynthia McKinney’s encounter with a Capitol Hill policeman has been discussed repeatedly on Hannity & Colmes, including every single “new development.” Last night (5/4/06), the first 18 minutes of the show were devoted to Rep. Patrick Kennedy's car accident, his history of substance abuse and his father's incident at Chappaquiddick. But I can’t remember a single discussion about a Republican scandal since Dick Cheney, with two drunken driving convictions in his past (unmentioned), didn’t do anything wrong when he shot his friend in the face and seemed reluctant to report it to the public.

Corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff has ties to President Bush, Tom DeLay and several other Republicans. Not worth discussing.

23 Bush administration officials

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/05/05/wheres_the_fox_news...ublican_scandals.php
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Originally posted by miamizsun:
I think it is ironic that either party, Demo or Repub, claim to have the American people's best interest at heart. But when the curtain is drawn we, as a country, vote for these rotten scoundrels.

There isn't one person, that has a good reason for voting a jack*ss or an elephant in office. All one has to do is look at their record for overwhelming evidence.

==============================================

On another note, a true philosophical forum is a great idea. Philosophy is to man as operating software is to a computer. It is who you are......


Amen to that!!
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Originally posted by Quarrles:
PBA, darn you, you're trolling again. These folks are too easy for you. Try me.



Question why does it take the republican party bringing law breaking shame
and/or taking our economy down the tubes before they pretend to give a ****?

Do they not pay attention?

Do they not know that setting up the oil companies once again in the mideast
through illegal invasion is unethical and wrong?

And then theres Abramoff, Katrina,the Kstreet project,DeLay, Duke cunningham...
I guess when you believe youre Gods chosen party all sins are automaticly forgiven

the cult of the fetus strikes again


Republicans and their love for deregulation even when humans are involved...now that is ignorance. Jeb Bush and Neil Bush made out like the bandits they are!

An April 28, 1992, Washington Post editorial warned, "Over the past decade the country has learned a lot about the limits to deregulation." The savings and loan crisis was, of course, one exhibit called forth: "Deregulation also has its price, as the savings and loan disaster has hideously demonstrated. Deregulation, combined with the Reagan administration's egregious failure to enforce the remaining rules, led to the gigantic costs of cleaning up the failed S&Ls."

Such as thieves Neil Bush,Jeb Bush and their compadre John McCain. Yes there were two or three democrats as well....
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Originally posted by PBA:
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Originally posted by Quarrles:
PBA, darn you, you're trolling again. These folks are too easy for you. Try me.



Question why does it take the republican party bringing law breaking shame
and/or taking our economy down the tubes before they pretend to give a ****?

Do they not pay attention?

Do they not know that setting up the oil companies once again in the mideast
through illegal invasion is unethical and wrong?

And then theres Abramoff, Katrina,the Kstreet project,DeLay, FOLEY,Duke cunningham...
I guess when you believe youre Gods chosen party all sins are automaticly forgiven

the cult of the fetus strikes again


Republicans and their love for deregulation even when humans are involved...now that is ignorance. Jeb Bush and Neil Bush made out like the bandits they are!

An April 28, 1992, Washington Post editorial warned, "Over the past decade the country has learned a lot about the limits to deregulation." The savings and loan crisis was, of course, one exhibit called forth: "Deregulation also has its price, as the savings and loan disaster has hideously demonstrated. Deregulation, combined with the Reagan administration's egregious failure to enforce the remaining rules, led to the gigantic costs of cleaning up the failed S&Ls."

Such as thieves Neil Bush,Jeb Bush and their compadre John McCain. Yes there were two or three democrats as well....
Hannity sits behind the camera with his Brylcreamed hair and waves the flag, making millions of dollars defending Barbara Bush's healthy sons for skirting military service, and attacking anybody (Dan Rather, John Kerry) who has sacrificed for our country in a real sense.

There has to be a special place in hell for the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Inghram, and others who have been so viscious in their one-sided vegenances against a large segment of our people.
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Originally posted by lycy64:
Hannity sits behind the camera with his Brylcreamed hair and waves the flag, making millions of dollars defending Barbara Bush's healthy sons for skirting military service, and attacking anybody (Dan Rather, John Kerry) who has sacrificed for our country in a real sense.

There has to be a special place in hell for the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Inghram, and others who have been so viscious in their one-sided vegenances against a large segment of our people.

ratsafrats (my favorite G rated Cuss word) The neo conservative movement, in its death throes, is at least as dangerous now as when it was riding high. It may be more dangerous, like a cornered Rat, it may lash out in a last desperate effort to DOMINATE the USA.
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Originally posted by dogsoldier0513:
Where's a VIABLE Libertarian candidate when you need one...? Roll Eyes

How does a tiny minority party develop a viable candidate? (rhetorical question)

BY THE SAME APPRENTICSHIP PROCESS THAT THE MAJOR PARTIES USE.
At the local level.
Nader is not a viable candidate for president. He is a viable candidate for Mayor or Governor. He has name recognition, and to become a Mayor or Governor he has a manageable constituency. To become president he needs credibility in politics.

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