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p> HOME IS WHERE THE VOTES ARE br> Re: Lisa Fabrizio's Not Staying Home : /p>

Lisa Fabrizio's appeal to glum conservatives was quite exhilarating, if you're twelve. Otherwise, it was another tired attempt to keep the Republican base quiet with a reminder of how much worse things could be. But that stuff won't work this year.

I voted for Big Bush against my better judgment. I voted for Little Bush because he was not Al Gore, and then again because he wasn't married to Teresa Kerry. But that was the last time I'll settle for the least repulsive candidate on the ballot. Pounding the tin drum on behalf of some feckless wretch because he's better than Stalin and has deigned to address CPAC won't move me one inch.

McCain seems to be an accomplished liar; and I believe that what is called his "plain speaking" is evidence that he has a couple of screws loose. Huckabee is Slick Willie with a better haircut; he has the same smarmy presence that keeps your hand on your wallet until he's gone.

Romney seems no more dreadful than some previous chief executives, and if he runs against Hillary I may vote for him; I'd vote for the devil himself before I'd vote for Hillary. But if she runs against McCain I will vote Libertarian. Four years of Hillary will do the conservative movement far more good than eight years of McCain.

p>It's not a matter of running away because I can't get everything I want. It is a matter of standing fast in the hope of getting what we all need to survive. The old coalition cobbled together by Nixon and animated by Reagan has come apart. Each individual group must reevaluate its priorities, come to terms with the American electorate, and make the best deal possible. These last dismal eight years have squandered what may have been our last chance to prevent what now seems inevitable. But, in the event that it was not, Joe Hill summed it up nicely: "Don't mourn. Organize." br> -- Edmund Dantes br> Coshocton, Ohio /p>

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