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We�re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore
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Wow. He is dead-on. What a beautiful piece. Thanks for posting it. Must send this to my ["dessicated"] Unitarian friends and family.
The old-time Republican he describes in the first paragraph was my grandfather to a T.
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He's always been one of the more eloquent orators of our time. Doubt that it'll change any mids around here, but I enjoyed the read.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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An excellent piece, as usual. 
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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"Republicans: The No. 1 Reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous."
Can't argue with that.
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I'd like to hear a republican rebuttal to this spot on essay.
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Originally posted by dgs212:
I'd like to hear a republican rebuttal to this spot on essay.
We're waiting.
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For folks who think GK just came out of (ahem) left field with this, you should know he's long had a bone to pick with the new GOP. Take a look at this juicy invective, from MN senator Norm Coleman's election in 2002:
http://www.guerillastickers.com/norm_coleman.htm
My favorite bit:
It was a dreadful low moment for the Minnesota voters. To choose Coleman over Walter Mondale is one of those dumb low-rent mistakes, like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. But I don't envy someone who's sold his soul. He's condemned to a life of small arrangements. There will be no passion, no joy, no heroism, for him. He is a hollow man. The next six years are not going to be kind to Norm.
and later, in his riposte to critics:
The hoots and cackles of Republicans reacting to my screed against Norman Coleman, the ex-radical, former Democratic, now compassionate conservative senator-elect from Minnesota, was all to be expected, given the state of the Republican Party today. Its entire ideology, top to bottom, is We-are-not-Democrats, We-are-the-unClinton, and if it can elect an empty suit like Coleman, on campaign as cheap and cynical and unpatriotic as what he waged right up to the moment Paul Wellstone's plane hit the ground, then Republicans are perfectly content.
They are Republicans first and Americans second.
The old GOP of fiscal responsibility and principled conservatism and bedrock Main Street values is gone, my dear, and something cynical has taken its place.
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