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4. Oh, my sweet summer child. We aren't going to win that seat.*

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 10:37 PM

Jun 2014

1) Heavily GOP district.

2) This Brat guy will be a media darling for unseating the House Majority Leader for the first time since 1899. That's a shitload of free publicity.

3) You can bet your ass that handlers on their way right now from Koch-sucker HQ to try to make him seem reasonable.

*Unless something really major happens like "being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy"

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Oh, my sweet summer child. We aren't going to win that seat.* Liberal Veteran Jun 2014 #4

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