A hypothetical question for the 2012 elections
Nov 12, 2010 | 12:05 pm
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A hypothetical question for the 2012 elections
Imagine its 2012, and election time. If the candidate you don't support politically declared that on 1/21/13 he/she would disband the TSA, and create common-sense security, would that issue alone make you vote for them (despite you disagreeing with everything else they stand for?)
Nov 12, 2010 | 12:07 pm
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That is what I had in mind too. This is what I posted in another thread "Make a list of all the Congressmen/women and Senators on the committees that fund DHS/TSA. Let the secondary list be the Congressmen/women and Senators from your state. Then call them and let them know how displeased you are with the TSA gropes and NoS.
There is nothing more scary to Congressmen/women and Senators than not being elected again. Even Skeletor's lobbying is no match to not being elected again. Let the game begin and lets vote these "honorable" representatives out."
There is nothing more scary to Congressmen/women and Senators than not being elected again. Even Skeletor's lobbying is no match to not being elected again. Let the game begin and lets vote these "honorable" representatives out."
Nov 12, 2010 | 12:45 pm
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This is a high-priority issue for me, but I would never be a single-issue voter.
Although I fail to see how anyone who acknowledges that the TSA needs to be disbanded or reinvented could really disagree with everything else I stand for.
Although I fail to see how anyone who acknowledges that the TSA needs to be disbanded or reinvented could really disagree with everything else I stand for.
soon forgotten.
Nov 12, 2010 | 1:03 pm
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While it would be tempting to vote for someone who promised to undo the TSA, I am too cynical to believe it would be so. Congress as a whole would have to approve - that's not going to happen - and then any administration would need to agree. That also will not happen in my opinion.
Nov 12, 2010 | 2:19 pm
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I think a more reasonable approach is to make known your intentions to vote out any politician who doesn't do something about this. "You have one term to fix this, the clock is set at 2/4/6 years. Go." The logic of the OP explains how the Republican party became the party of the Christian Right.