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Wowy, you sure do like your sources, don't you Host? Own Google stock, or somethin'? I won't try to answer all of your sources/points, just the main idea that I think you overlooked in your path to quote/source what seemed like every word I even thought of typing.

My main point in my posts was that my response to you came from my feelings about why we as Tennesseeans didn't vote for Al Gore in 2000. These feelings come from personally knowing several democrats who didn't vote for him (including my sister and her husband, who had voted mostly for democrats until then), and from my sense of being a native of our fair state, thereby knowing some of the culture here.

And, if I am not mistaken, you are not a native of Tennessee, so you will not be able to fully embrace the reasonings behind why we did what we did.

But to get to your points, as they were:

1. The whole "invented the internet" thing - gosh, dude (or dudette - don't know which is appropriate), learn what "tongue in cheek" means! At the least, learn to laugh at what Al himself still to this day laughs and jokes about. I do have a modicum of intelligence to know that he didn't mean that he actually invented the internet.....

2. "Brent Bozell III"? Who's he? And what ever happened to BB II and BB I? Will there be a BB IV? (just imagine a green-eyed woman in the Music City burbs wearing black sweatpants and a tan shirt with a pooched out jaw and raised left eyebrow, with a slight smirky like smile)

What about Ted Turner and his 25 plus years of castigating conservatives? And what about his recent crap.....

Host, both sides claim liberal or conservative bias in the press. You do not have a valid argument, as it isn't totally quantifiable by objective evidence. It's subjective, according to how one feels when a news anchor is reporting a story that puts one's affiliation in a poor light. Hey, live with it - the press is who they are. We conservatives have had to live with it for years, perhaps you libs have to deal with Fox News now, just as we have had to deal with Ted's CNN crap for years.

3. The library thing - almost all the presidential libraries are located within a few miles of a major city with a current infrastructure in place. Al is from Carthage - which has a population of about 2,200 people, even though it is the county seat of White County. It would have to be in Sparta, and while I will admit that Sparta is a decently sized city (about 25,000 residents), it is still 2 HOURS OUTSIDE OF NASHVILLE, AND NOT EASY TO GET TO IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS. I've been there, I know the road system here, and even I made a couple of wrong turns (I am actually decent at following a map, btw.)

4. As for that etherial economic boom that would happen with an Al Gore Presidential Library, or even with an Al Gore presidency? Hey, we've seen 50 k job growth over the past few years, and that can easily be attributed to the George Bush tax cuts. So if Al Gore were president, we might have lost jobs. Go figure.....

5. "Because a majority the people of Tennessee voted republican, their representatives and president imposed a greater hardship on Tennessee, due to it's highest per household rate of bankruptcies in the nation...IMO, that's "tough love", and another example of voters who vote against their own best interests....you're all just one illness away from needing chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, you file at the highest per capita rate, of any state, and now, that option is gone."

Wow, it's taken you, HOST, to give us Tennesseans the answer to our lives. It's that we should have voted Al in as Pres in 2000. That is sooo stinkin' simplistic, it doesn't even rate an answer, especially to someone who doesn't know what life is like here.

You see, folks like you seem to spur us on to be even more who we are. People who think they know what we need, even more than we do.

Simply put - we did not vote for Al Gore as president in 2000. Get over it. And I would offer an encouragement to you, Host: Hurry, run, don't stop to get your belongings, just get out of the vineyard, because the sour grapes are driving you nuts.

Sorry, Host, forgot to add the following:

1. Al Gore was a popular senator up until he began running for Pres back in 1988 - his pro-life rating was 84 percent until that time, but after then, it fell, which for a very conservative state like Tennessee, was not welcome.

2. His support of Bill Clinton during the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal and his continued support afterwards lost Al lost of support.

3. Tennesseans vote with more than their pocketbook - they use their hearts, souls, morals and patriotism. We don't just vote for someone who might make us rich - we ask "rich at what cost?". We're more mature than those who just vote with money in their mind, because we know that money is only a part of life.

An addendum to the previous post.

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