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My reaction to the elections is a bit delayed. I guess I’m still a little in shock. Needless to say I did not expect the outcome. When I discussed it with Professor Levine at UT and he predicted a 50 seat loss in the house I REALLY thought that was impossible, I told him maybe 30 seats. WOW was I wrong! So, Renan, you were right and I was wrong.
Russ

Elections
Some definitions from the dictionary
conservative |kənˈsərvətiv; -vəˌtiv|
adjective
holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation
noun
a person who is averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes,
ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [aiming to preserve] ): from late Latin conservativus, from conservat- ‘conserved,’ from the verb conservare
liberal |ˈlib(ə)rəl|
adjective
• open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values
• favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms
• favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform
noun
a person of liberal views
ORIGIN Middle English : via Old French from Latin liberalis, from liber ‘free (man).’ The original sense was [suitable for a free man,]
To bad the Conservatives haven’t been in power since 1910. we could all still be using out houses (liberals gave us sanitation laws) dying at 47 (liberals gave us FDA, USDA, the National Health Institute), be on our own when we were to old to work or disabled and unable to see a doctor if we got sick (liberals gave us Social Security and Medicare), making 22 cents an hour, buying drugs at the pharmacy, not bothering to send our kids to school, not worrying about paying for college, only having to bath once a week and wash our hair once a month, hitching up the wagon once a month to to to the store (if the roads weren’t too muddy), and still enjoying the “good old days.“ You remember those days don’t you? The days before anti-trust laws (when the Rockafellers and the Carnegies owned everything), before FDIC (when bank failures meant you lost all your money), before SCC (when inside trading on wall street was legal), before the VA (when it was tough luck for Veterans who’d been wounded in war), before Unions were legal, before women could vote?
Damm those Liberals anyway….why if conservatives had been in power since 1010 we could all still be serfs and buying indulgences to allow us to sin and still go to heaven!!!
Kick the liberals out, vote conservative and lets get things back to the way they were meant to be!!
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