If you were a chief political operative...

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Your mission is to take over the White House.

...Legally. As in, the 2008 election. No bombs or crazy stuff like that.

What candidate do you pick? What states do you focus on? What's your campaign strategy?

Note: killing voters from the other party that disagree with you is generally a bad idea. Terrorizing cities on election day is also bad, though it would be fun and effective.

[A18]

I hate hearing Democrats acting like Bill Frist will be the nominee.

There is reason to even have a campaign if Bill Frist somehow wins the nomination (which he won't), unless you plan to run a left wing extremist like Hillary Clinton. Anyone else, and he will lose big.

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Blacks are not going to vote for a Republican just because he's black.

I also think it's really annoying when Republicans in the Senate try to play the race card on Bush appointees. Yes, voting against Condi is pretty stupid, but it's not racist.

The fact that someone is hispanic does not qualify him to be Attorney General.

The Democrats are just being overly partisan. Nothing racist about that.