• AdLib : Thanks pal and back at ya! Have a great weekend!

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Ad Lib…good….at least HP gets the benefit of your counsel on occasion. Well good night my friend.

  • AdLib : Murph – I did read the thread and was very glad you posted it, very interested in the commentary and of course pleased by so many people joining the conversation. Thanks again for doing that!

  • MurphTheSurf3 : choice…just read your egg adventures….wh at a tale…yuck

  • AdLib : CL – Yipe! Good thing you won the mug instead of our official PlanetPOV loaf of Whole Wheat bread!

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Ad Lib…I agree. The GOTP is a danger to democracy.

  • AdLib : CL – Yuck! SOrry you’re having to go through that! Hope you’re done with that now and can have a relaxing weekend!

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Well Ad Lib it’s you and me again….people are going to start talking…..I think I shall head out as well…..I was so pleased to post your extraordinary comment…did you stop by to read any of the comments….real ly set off the TP crowd and set up the folks in our corner to fight on.

  • choicelady : AdLib – I’m wheat intolerant and they wanted to give me toast. I’d have looked like Harry Potter’s aunt after he swelled her up, only I’d have sunk, not floated. disgusting.

  • AdLib : Murph – When I was much younger, I too saw it as most reasonable to vote based on the person, not the party. There were differences between the parties but each had strengths. It’s impossible today when there is such a monolithic GOP that only becomes more monolithic through ongoing purging. Dems are the only party of diversity now.

  • choicelady : AdLib – a test to make sure my horrid digestive problems were food intolerances not organic. I’m fine. Just disgusting stuff to swallow down. And eggs is one of the food intolerances. It wasn’t fun.

  • choicelady : Night AdLib. Night Murph!

  • AdLib : CL- What are you doing eating radioactive eggs?

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Good night Choice….

  • choicelady : I am indeed heading off. Even though I’m not able to light my own way (what a loss after swallowing REALLY bad scrambled eggs mixes with radioactive something) I am fading just from being tired. See you all next week I hope!

  • AdLib : CL – Good point, Cruz could win the primaries via the Baggers but lose even the Repub vote in the GE!

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Ad Lib- Yes, my Dad also used to split his vote. I picked it up from him. I think it came out of his admiration for Ike (and for Truman who was a semi-GOP).

  • choicelady : AdLib – we like to think so! We do a lot of social justice legislative work together. It’s a ton of fun!

  • AdLib : Night CL! Have a great weekend and we’ll catch up on HOPEful developments next week!

  • choicelady : AdLib – if you listen to a lot of GOP, President Cruz doesn’t appeal to many of them either! As nuts as they are – they don’t go THERE.

  • AdLib : CL – Not surprising you two are together, he is pretty damn cool as you are too!

  • choicelady : AdLib – that is the REAL loss with the current GOP. NOBODY is someone to admire unless you’re very narrow in your views.

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Choice I worked very hard for Ford- in part because I knew how poor a governor was in GA.

  • choicelady : Murph- as it turns out Ford was not so bad.

  • AdLib : Murph – As strange as it is to say today, voting Repub used to be a real choice in the past. There used to be quite a bit of diversity in the GOP, remember Howard Baker? Many Dems would talk about him and other Repubs as ones they could vote for. Today? Hmm…President Cruz? I don’t know that’s too appealing to any Dems.

  • choicelady : Sabreen – as a person, Carter is a good man, yes. He allowed himself to be hijacked by the global corporate types, and it served the nation ill.

  • MurphTheSurf3 : Sabreen…I share your personal admiration for Carter but think Ford would have been a better choice for the office.