tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post3588755116031927872..comments2024-02-28T11:29:36.860-05:00Comments on just up the pike: what's up the pike: everything comes togetherDan Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594208011755406956noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-7418388211414131992008-10-30T18:03:00.000-04:002008-10-30T18:03:00.000-04:00Well Thomas Hardman- I am a registered Democrat an...Well Thomas Hardman- I am a registered Democrat and I have been accused of being a Republican.<BR/><BR/>I like to think of myself as the "old" style Democrat- remember Hubert Humphrey, Henry Scoop Jackson and the Union Leader George Meany- these are the Democrats that made Democrats proud.<BR/><BR/>When I see the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Obama and the rest of these far left loons, I shake mt head and hope that one day.......retgroclkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13538891152523408607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-52331033045783476032008-10-27T13:06:00.000-04:002008-10-27T13:06:00.000-04:00Dan, all, Regarding my decision to bail on the MoC...Dan, all, <BR/><BR/>Regarding my decision to bail on the MoCo Republicans, that came a month or two ago, and I re-registered then. The thing is, I still have ideals that I consider "republican" but there's as strange a struggle for hearts and minds within the GOP as there is within the Democrat party's factions of Conservative and Progressive. My positions on partisan extremism are fairly well known, I think it's a very divisive force which may eventually bring the country to political paralysis, if not actual civil war. <BR/><BR/>To run as an Independent -- if I were to do so -- is far more difficult in Maryland than it would be to run in any established party. Yet, due to the partisanism and polarization of extremes, it may be that only unaffiliated candidates could faithfully serve the whole electorate and pursue goals which are essential, but which polarize according to party lines.<BR/><BR/>What I decided over the weekend was that I couldn't commit to running for anything, and didn't want to exercise my friends professional talents -- however donated pro-bono -- towards a goal I didn't hold dear.<BR/><BR/>And then I got home and found my "Notice of Allowance" from the Patent office...<BR/><BR/>Don't think for a minute that I'm ignoring political process in either Maryland or MoCo, or in the USA, though I will praise $DEITY once the elections are done.<BR/><BR/>It's just that if I have been handed a license to sue on the one hand, and potentially print money on the other hand, it's easy to see where my most urgent concerns might lie.<BR/><BR/>I will definitely be getting a more familiar understanding of the regulatory environment's impacts on business, that's for sure, and I might eventually wind up as either a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat, but I'll probably still be registered unaffiliated. <BR/><BR/>Please please please let the current campaign be over soon. /me whimpersThomas Hardmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07951423786343852055noreply@blogger.com