Sorry Ralphie, one more state for you to bitch and moan about.  Too bad the republican efforts to get you on the ballot in Pennsylvania fell just a little too short.

The Supreme Court has rejected Nader's final attempt to get on the ballot in PA.

First, a few facts:

Diaries are being posted at a rate of almost 3 per minute and 500 per day (Meteor Blades' numbers).  I can't read them all, can you?

I have a life outside of this website, do you?

My last 2 diary postings have been met with the following comments:

1.  This has been diaried before, didn't you check?

2.  You should abide by the community rules of 'good diary etiquette.'

3.  Online polls are frivolous, so don't diary them.
   

After Bush's hometown newspaper, the Crawford Iconoclast, recently published an editorial endorsing Kerry in the upcoming election I was curious as to what response they had received.  I decided to contact the paper and sent them this email:

I've written lately about the district Delay is in:  a republican majority who are either completely unaware of the indictments, or worse yet, know but could care less about them and still plan to vote for him, whether or not he is actually guilty of anything at all.

Well, the Houston Chronicle made the rounds in Fort Bend county and unsurprisingly found the same results here.

Have you noticed that when Republicans are pinned down on Iraq, they inevitably fall back to their favorite position:  "Isn't the world a safer place without Saddam Hussein in power?"  

(If I hear it again, the giant pulsing vein in my head will explode.)

Spider Jerusalem wrote a great diary that ended with:

And therein lies the crux of the matter:  the remaining undecided/independent/can't-make-up-their-f'ing-mind-if-they-were-paid to group is not a group of voters who are persuaded by logical analysis and articulate arguments.  Rather, they are almost wholly driven to a decision by media messages in combination with the dreaded 'likability factor.'

I admit it.  I had a begrudging respect for John McCain at one time.  I even thought that he wouldn't make a half-bad President, although I still would have voted for Gore had McCain gotten the nod over Bush.  (Though there were other valid reasons, for me it would have come down to one simple issue:  Supreme Court appointees.)  In fact, I still believe that had McCain got the Republican nomination in 2000 the last 4 years would have gone far differently.  (I know, not a big stretch, eh?)

I didn't even mind it when McCain began stumping for Bush.  Why?  Because as a dyed-in-the-wool Conservative, he really doesn't have a choice.

When he slammed the SBVT bullshit, it only re-enforced my belief that he was still somewhat of an independent thinker who is not afraid to call the issues right or wrong as he sees them.

No longer.