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I think they are. Grandpa Dave's line about Donner Party Republicans was right on. George WIll is a virulent example. There hasn't been a GOP President yet that was "pure" enough for Saint George of The Right Wing Grail; not Reagan, not Bush I and certainly not W.

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It would be a shame to see the right hand power to the left the way they did in Canada for 13 straight years of Liberal misrule. Politics is the art of the possible -- with a first-past-the-post systems only coalition parties can win power. Minor parties are more ideological -- but, they aren't playing to win.