> On Sep 4, 12:22 am, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 3, 7:23 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:

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>>> Any resemblance of actual persons is the rhetorical point.

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>>> Once upon a time, there was an election campaign for an important
>>> political office < hint , not cat catcher>

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>>> Pertinent history:

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>>> Ten years ago, an officially presiding politician was impeached by a
>>> legislative body which was controlled by a poltical party poltically
>>> opposed to that politician.

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>>> The successfully impeaching law makers stated that the politician had
>>> committed perjury when he lied about a sexual allegation; and "it's
>>> not about persecution for adultery."

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>>> Currrent situation

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>>> The Governor (apparently) denies telling a subordinate official to
>>> fire a cop with which she allegedly has a personal (family)
>>> conflict.

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>> Hey, I didn't say that the Governor can't deliver a helluva red meat
>> speech.

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>> A debate with Senator Joe Biden promises more rhetoric than should be
>> allowed.

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>> Both parties can sell vaccuum cleaners for cleaning infintely sandy
>> beaches.

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>> She'd be terrific in NORTHERN EXPOSURE if they make a movie version.

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>> Plus that quaint Wasilla dialect is definitively the upper west.

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>> Vladimir Putin will look into her eyes and give up Siberia.- Hide quoted text -

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> Gov. Palin IS the "culture war" personified as Pat Buchanan, via
> MSNBC, has been happily explaining his (coined?)perception & reality
> to liberals
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> Her villainous "good ole boys" certainly do personify establishment
> adaptation, compromise, nuance, pragmatism, mitigation,
> sophistication, the usual subtle corruptions of every kind that
> rightwingers and nutty leftists despise
>
> This sickening observation isn't rocket science, and of course
> everything about it has to be qualified and hedged with weasle word
> and "alleges"
>
> The masses of folks, including most trade union members & indeed petty
> bouegeoise ordinary service station franchisees, are by ...definition
> "rightwing" & "reactionary" types
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> I am not (unfortunately) making crap up: to me it's harsh realism and
> not paranoia
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> The Republican Party has been catering its literalist Supreme Court,
> anti birth control, anti-evolution, and general "flat earth" pitch to
> yahooism since at least Nixon's "southern strategy," tho long before--
> see "isolationism," "know-nothing," and "babbitry"
>
> FDR won because of depressing economic shite, including bank failures,
> and, yes, tiredness with failed puritanical Prohibition
>
> History may somehow repeat with Obama-Biden, though it appears to me
> the Rught is now winning