eh, at least he lost the combover...c'mere, rudy, i guess it's u 'n me, pal

since i have little or no hope of the huckster refuting his 1992 comment about quarantining AIDS patients, i guess it's me and the cross-dressing adulterer.

sh*t.

huck's still gonna win the whole damn thing, but i am off the bandwagon, or the medicine show wagon or the tent revival or whatever the f*ck we're calling his campaign.

my enthusiasm for the '08 campaign wanes already.

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Updated On: 12/8/07 at 07:15 PM

i'd like to think i'm not the only one.

i'd like to.

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I am very proud of you, Papa.

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I just finished the HBO documentary Mr. Conservative about Barry Goldwater - - sometimes I am so relieved that both he and Mo Udall have passed on --- not often though, the world was a better place with them in it. I count myself as incredibly lucky to have grown up with these two men representing my state. They were both honorable, they loved this state, they respected their constituents and each other and most importantly ...they were hysterically funny people.

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Not an AuH20 fan?
I find that odd.

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Kucinich isn't the only politician who claims to have seen a UFO. The late President Reagan was also among those who claimed to have had an encounter, when he was Governor of California.

"One week after the sighting, Reagan related the story to Norman C. Millar, then Washington Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, later the editor of the Los Angeles Times. Reagan told Millar:

"I was in a plane last week when I looked out the window and saw this white light. It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, ‘Have you seen anything like that before?’ He was shocked and said, ‘Nope.’ And I said to him: ‘Let’s follow it!’

We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When we got off the plane, I told Nancy all about it.’

The pilot of Governor Reagan plane was Bill Paynter, and he backed up Reagan’s version of the incident with the UFO.

I was the pilot of the plane when we saw the UFO. Also, on board were Governor Reagan and a couple of his security people. We were flying a Cessna Citation. It was maybe nine or ten o’clock at night. We were near Bakersfield when Governor Reagan and the others called my attention to a big light flying a bit behind the plane.

It appeared to be several hundred yards away. It was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate, then it appeared to elongate. The light took off. It went up at a 45-degree angle - at a high rate of speed. Everyone on the plane was surprised.

Governor Reagan expressed amazement. I told the others I didn’t know what it was. The UFO went from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed instantly. If you give an airplane power it will accelerate - but not like a hotrod, and that is what this was like.

We didn’t file a report on the object because for a long time they considered you a nut if you saw a UFO."

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Updated On: 12/8/07 at 08:47 PM

I loved Barry. Met him, knew him - and there should be more like him.

And his grandson - but I digress.

"he was also the gipper, not an elf."

Don't disparage the elves, Papa. They're the ones that make your Christmas toys! What the hell does a gipper do?

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DG -- I only ever got to meet him once in person, but I made every effort to attend numerous events where growing up. Mo was my congressman so I saw him all the time...unfortunately never had the opportunity to work for him, the staff closed ranks by then because Parkinson's was taking such a toll by 1988 both mentally and physically--- I was ultimately sent to the DeConcini campaign, not exactly my dream post...

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