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I was impressed by this and

Richard Day — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:14:51 +0000

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I was impressed by this and immediately I drop my guard or my dem garb.

It takes sooooo very much courage to even say the things he has recently.

And normally I do not trust people called Lamar or Alexander. hahahah

A brilliant piece. And maybe

Oxy Mora — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:01:07 +0000

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A brilliant piece. And maybe Perry is a "bridge" too far. Let's hope he's too far out of the spectrum and it will be a bridge back to sanity in the Republican party.

I watched the first Contender series on C-Span, Henry Clay of Kentucky. He tried and failed in three Presidential elections.

During the program there were snippets of Ron Paul and McConnell making Senate speeches referencing Henry Clay. I felt the bile rise up in the back of my throat. The juxtaposition of these small minded hacks compared to Clay was almost unbearable.

I missed the news. It would

Michael Wolraich — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:28:18 +0000

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I missed the news. It would have been a great point.

I thought you might mention

AmericanDreamer — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:09:51 +0000

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I thought you might mention Senator Lamar Alexander's recent announcement that he's stepping down from the GOP leadership team so he can feel at greater liberty to pursue bipartisan agreements on some issues (!).

That announcement, and the reactions to it, should have drawn a chorus of commentary on what it says about today's GOP, but didn't. Alexander was quoted as saying he's very much a "Republican Republican", not a party-switcher or anything like that. And the announcement was greeted with public approval from his GOP peers in the Senate, which I thought was, perhaps unintentionally, quite revealing, but also did not seem to draw much comment.