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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Tue Feb 5, 2013, 02:37 PM Feb 2013

No, This Isn't The Problem, Either*

Charles Pierce: I guess I’m supposed to be rolling around in schadenfreude at the news that Karl Rove has found a new brand of cheap aluminum siding to sell to the rubes and suckers of what is laughingly referred to as the Republican Establishment. It seems that the money boys are getting tired of losing winnable Senate races because the Help keeps hiring candidates out of the Chronic ward, so Karl’s going to (reluctantly) take their money this time to teach them how to craft winning campaigns on the general theme of Ix-Nay on the Apey-ray. That the Republican party actually should need to pay someone to explain this to its candidates is a measure of a rather more systemic problem. That the feral children in the wilder precincts are birthing cows all over the landscape is entertaining as all hell, but it doesn’t move us any greater distance along toward the day when we once again will have two sane political parties.

More here: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Problem_With_Republicans

*Found on the ObamaDiary

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No, This Isn't The Problem, Either* (Original Post) Playinghardball Feb 2013 OP
It moves us further away. Rove unleashed this madness el_bryanto Feb 2013 #1
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