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3. Jim DeMint forgets

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 02:22 PM

Apr 2014

That the Republican Party and the Democratic Party have totally switched ideological places since Mr. Lincoln was President. That's why the once solid Democratic South is now the Solid Republican South. DeMint and think shouldn't even occupy the same sentence.

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