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Well, to be fair, Reagan forgot all that, too. If he even knew it in the first place.

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And he got votes from the 'Reagan Democrats'.

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Uh... Chris, you blithering idiot, have you <em>really</em> never heard of the phrase "Reagan Democrats"? Because it's trotted out with tedious, mindnumbing frequency by pundits on the TV machine.

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and with so much practice!

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Money talks and bullshit walks. It's a sad fact.

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<i>I guess they can take some consolation that they did something tonight by once again compromising, by once again reaching against the aisle,…</i>

Politics, how does it work? (shouldn't it be reaching across? or maybe reaching around?)

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Wasn't Martin Luther King a Republican, according to Extremely Reliable Wingnut <a href="http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/warrenthrockmorton\/2012\/10\/16\/review-david-bartons-setting-the-record-straight-american-history-in-black-white-part-one\/" target="_blank">David Barton?</a>

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Dog-whistling past the graveyard, maybe, but the tune ain't just Dixie.

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What's all this talk about the Tea Party forming a turd party? Will Sarah be bringing the punchbowl?

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I thought I could no longer be amazed by wingnut cognitive dissonance, but: <i>McDaniel accused his fellow Republicans of spending millions “to defeat one of their own"... </i>

YOU. WERE. THE. CHALLENGER.

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"Republican primary won by Republican voters." You ain't just dog whistlin' Dixie.

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"Having been an elected Republican and someone who routinely takes the position of supporting conservatives in primaries and Republicans in general elections, the Mississippi race does crystalize for me the desires of many to start a third party."

The MS race was an elected Republican? Erick Son of Erick clearly has no editor.

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Or the punch line.

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START THAT 3RD PARTY, BABY! Lead your lemming bros and sistas off that cliff, flag held high!

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Please please please.

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