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lapislzi

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23. Agreed. The GOP will do anything to keep that from happening.

Reply to RZM (Reply #8)

Thu Jan 19, 2012, 10:20 AM

Jan 2012

As in, promise of cabinet post (good luck getting that through the Senate) or any and all manner of carrots.

They cannot afford a challenge from the predictably unpredictable right wing of their party.

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Agreed. The GOP will do anything to keep that from happening. lapislzi Jan 2012 #23

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