In a funny way, I can identify with how Republicans are feeling and acting these days. I've been fighting a cold since before I boarded a plane for Des Moines to attend the Iowa caucuses, feeling lousy the whole time.
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What is missing from the GOP debate right now is a clear idea about what it should look like two, three, four, or five years hence. The party may be turning in a slightly more secular direction, becoming a bit less focused on social and cultural issues, and softening the pervasive religious overtones of recent years. Those overtones helped to estrange the GOP from independents and moderates, particularly on such issues as stem-cell research and the Terri Schiavo case....
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To vomit, or not to vomit: That is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to dispose of one’s supper, or to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous equivocation, and take arms against a sea of fellows and colleagues, and by writing in opposition, reveal thoughts conceived in fraudulence.
Perhaps that sounds like so much gobbledygook to you, and no doubt, Shakespeare is flopping about in his coffin like a grounded catfish. Therefore, you may have some sense of my pent-up irritation, having endured as a witness to the systematic programming of my fellow citizens.
Conscientious, moral people have been played like a gypsy’s violin. You have been trained by repetitious exercise, like so many carpet-wetting puppies that now, without hesitation, spew the script that was written for you by power-lusting, left-wing democrats. I have watched this unfold from the beginning, unwilling to acknowledge a likelihood that these political whores could actually seduce the common-sense out of people I love and respect. ...............
Delusional Democrats: The Warm Fuzzies of Infanticide
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