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yeoman6987

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8. I actually wished it was successful

Reply to Enthusiast (Reply #1)

Sat May 17, 2014, 10:40 AM

May 2014

The reason is it would have made the Tea party look even worse seeing all those people looking batty. Now the Tea Party can say, "see most of us are not that wacky".

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