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Liberal_in_LA

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Fri Oct 18, 2013, 11:01 PM Oct 2013

I was pondering if I can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime,” Rush Limbaugh [View all]

Among commentators on the right, the reaction has been less driven by despair than by anger. In heated language on talk radio and on conservative blogs, many spoke of a winning if difficult strategy sabotaged in the end by weak-willed leadership.

“I was thinking about this last night, too, while I was pondering if I can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime,” Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday on his radio show, “if I could ever remember a time when a political party just made a decision not to exist for all intents and purposes.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/us/from-the-right-despair-anger-and-disillusion.html?ref=politics



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