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you sadly tend to look down your accomplished nose at others who in your view, do not measure up to your high standards, you are quick to call them 'idiots'

Thank you for all your comments, including that criticism above. I'd like to address it - because it is somewhat true - but I must add a caveat. I only do that...ONLY do that when someone has called me an establishment hack or responded intentionally out of context or use a purely emotional response and avoided any hard commentary on the issue at hand. So yes, guilty as charged - I shouldn't do it - but I never start it.....but fair point FWIW.

As for 92, that's when I saw this thing called "the Republican establishment" first hand. I didn't call it that then - but on the campaign there was a clear chasm between those of us who were "true believers" in Reagan's America - and those who were hangers on - wanting Bush to win the WH chiefly for their own personal career ladder climbing. It took about 30 seconds to figure out who was who. That is almost exactly the base/estab split.

We did run a more conservative focused campaign in NC than HW Bush ran nationally - which is probably why we were the only state in Carville's Targeted 20 State strategy that Bush won. Carville was 19-1 out of that 20 - and of course they won a whole lot of the other 30 states as well. I take lessons from that experience, and start my WTF history in 1992....for a number of reasons. You'll probably recognize that not only was 92 the official end of Reagan's hold on the party, it was a new chapter on the Democrat side with the Clinton Carville Stephanopolous machinery. Things changed in 92, on both sides.

Axelrod-Jarrett Obama took the Clinton paradigm up three levels...while McConnell and Boehner have taken the GOP E another three levels too. It's getting worse.

I'll also PM you something that will probably blow your mind...or at least pique your interest....