morey said:

interestingly enough there have been similar thoughts batted around in the rightwing area. specifically, they suggest trading the new england area for western canada straight up

Lon said:

I agree. I am considering a campaign to convince a state, county, or city to peacefully secede from the union. Anyone with me?

Bri said:

I am building an empire of shoirts for the blue staters to wear:

http://www.bluestater.org

John Hlinko said:

Actually, Bri -- those are pretty damned funny. Check 'em out, folks...

Becky said:

Please, please, please don't leave us in the middle of the country without your help! Stay with us; we'll be better next time.

Michael Marschner said:

get a life

Gonad said:

We could also annex France,Palastine,Cuba,Russia and the other socialist countries. We could also get Osma Bin Laden to campaing for the candidate again, like he did to Kerry. We could show the red states that they are not as important as they think they are.

Terry said:

i would gladly trade 5 northeastern areas and 3 west coasts for one western canada.

Terry said:

hell, i would even throw in the upper midwest for free, and pay them boot to take chicago.

Brian said:

As one of the 31 million Canadians you are considering 'ANNEXING' I was just wondering if you would be kind enough to consider if we want to be 'ANNEXED'?
If not, Im not suprised, if so, PLEASE do something about Califonia at the very least first, EH?

John Hlinko said:

Hmmm... good point. That should be "merge" with Canada (with Canadian permission, of course). Ya know, form "AmeriCanada" or "Ay-Merica" or that kind of thing.

CindyGal said:

I vote for merger. Canada is cool (and btw, has the best comedians on the planet).

LT Smash said:

I don't think we need to do either. Let's just take one of the red states, and exile all the right-wing nuts like Terry, Gonad, etc., there. Or give them their own country, "Idiotopia."

Brian said:

Who do we think we are kidding? Like it or not Canada is The States 'Little Brother' and like all siblings we quarrel (sometimes visciously) with each other at times.
Of course when some one else (not in our family) hurts or threatens one of us, you can bet the other will do what he can to help out.
"Big Brother" IS NOT always right. 'Little Brother' is not always wrong. Just ask yourselves this, WHO would you RATHER have on that 3,000 miles of BORDER?

A. Lizard said:

Forget it.

Without the Blue states, America is just another Third World shithole and Bush knows it. Any Blue state that actually managed to get a workable secession together would find a column of tanks on the front lawn of the state capitol to "restore democracy", even if the tanks had to be pulled out of Iraq to do it.

Google on "Red State Welfare Queens" for details.

Steven said:

Hey John... Wouldn't it be easier if you just left America. Do yourself (and us) a favor and just move to Canada dude.

John Hlinko said:

Actually, Steven, thanks for the suggestion, but then I wouldn't be able to see the look on your face when we trounce you guys in 2008. :)

bcboy said:

hey its no different here so dont get your hopes up.once ontario and quebec vote its over. bc and alberta have been getting the shaft for ever from ottawa.the one constant here is to give more and more power to the provincial governments.this sorta keeps us happy or at least at bay.

Littlewithdrawn said:

As interconnectedness increases, the great repository of freedom and the selling of its collective "force" will have to be sold more on the basis of cultural freedom than force. Canada, the UK, NZ, Aus, India, some in Africa need the Democrat
Party to put up the resources to form alliances that
will do more than hold sovereign debt in the form of
no bid Halliburton contracts. The GOP couldn't survive having other central banks vote for whose
countrie's bonds needed more investment because of the larger participation by many in post war construction.

milo said:

Hi Fellow Democrats
Sorry to say but we really do not have a chance to win in the near future. The right wing (not conservatives) control the news media with Fox and with Rush Limbaugh and his clones in total
control of the news media. We also have to remember that the American public is not very bright and has great difficulty voting in terms of their interests. If Americans voted their pocketbooks, the Democrats would win, but that is not the case.
Milo

tbevolved said:

There isn't much we can do. Bush won cause most of his votes came from uneducated, rightwing old school conservitives who are scared of "god". What needs to be done is educate those who don't understand what they have done. The gop uses scare tatics to win they did it this election with "party patrol" strong arming people to vote for the right. How long are we as americans gonna let this happen? How much can we take till we snap? The revolution will be televised.

chris said:

I am a native Californian who believes at least the 3 left coast states should secede from the union. If the other blue states want to join, let me know. If not, ok. I have a great idea to boot. All other blue staters can visit the new Pacific parliamentary republic sans a passport. red staters need passport and visa to enter and no you may not get it at the new border. Citizens of all other nations need only a passport

MiiPandaa said:

I advanced the idea of kicking the Redders out -- "forced secession" and "ejection" were used to describe it. In short, we Blues articulate the myriad ways in which the Reds' actions and deliberate inactions are truly counter-American -- and hence anti-American -- and that they, thus, need to be shown the door.

The U.S. Constitution can be read as a checklist if we must, and the Reds -- with their contempt for treaties, sober defense, and fair elections -- will not pass muster.