Is Seventh Congressional District A "Marked" District?

Have Democratic party leaders made a deal not to try hard enough to defeat Rep. JOHN LUIGI MICA?

Is that why Rep. MICA's vigorous 2008 Democratic challenger, Faye Armitage, got so little help from Democrats?

Is it because MICA is owned by Big Oil and the Highway Lobby, generous campaign contributors?

Is it part of a larger deal whereby Republicans and Democrats agree not to fund strong candidates to run against one another, trading Congressional seats like baseball cards?

If so, does that type of "old politics" deal amount to a civil rights violation?

A fraudulent breach of trust?

A betrayal of American ideals by political parties (which our Founders called "factions" and warned about as dangerous in the Federalist Papers)?

Every Republican Congressional seat requires a strong, vigorous, well-funded Democratic candidate. We need a 50 state strategy (as Howard Dean urged) and a 435 Congressional District strategy.

We need to reject the advice of the "nattering nabobs of negativism," who don't understand yet that this is as a Democratic era in our State and Nation.

Democrats and Republicans do the American people a disservice by allowing party hacks to "mark" Congressional Districts and make backroom deals.

If it were commerce, it would be indictable as an antitrust conspiracy.

Since it's government and politics, it might just be considered a civil and criminal civil rights violation. What do you reckon?

Inquiring minds will be watching and waiting.

So, no more "marked" Districts, please.