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Ikonoklast

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14. They can't. The Religious Right wing, the Teabaggers and the Paulistas would split off

Reply to ewagner (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 01:41 PM

Jan 2012

and effectively take one-third of the Republican vote with them.

They have made a deal with the increasingly politically insane, and that coalition is going to be their downfall, as they can't keep them happy, nor turn them out without becoming a minority party forever.

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