GUYS: WARNING! WATCH CAREFULLY to see if this starts happening in your district:

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35. That's why I posted this.

I don't know if it's "a thing" or not. But having it happen three times that I know if, in the same basic Westside area, and I've personally been AT two of them when this shit happened, gotta say I'm starting to wonder if these are dots waiting to be connected. I'm predisposed, by now, automatically to suspect the worst of that side of the aisle. The behavior, observed over many many many moons (I'm in my mid-60s now), convincingly indicates to me that there is a serious deterioration in the Republican Party of, say, Eisenhower, or Nelson Rockefeller, or Good Grief, even by now a Mitt Romney, or Charlie Crist who mellowed so much he switched to being a Democrat. What we see now is a widespread embrace of something that, decades ago, NO ONE ANYWHERE would have expected to see from any Republican who drew breath: The Russians.

NEVER IN MY LIFETIME have I seen such a radical and abrupt reversal of LONG-standing tradition and even a bedrock belief. A belief so fundamental that it was way down deep in the bone marrow of the Republican body politic. NEVER would being in bed with the Russians for ANY reason, much less to get yourself elected, be tolerated - or even thinkable. No one would even think of such a sin. A mortal sin, for those who want to give it a ranking in order of magnitude. And the whole frickin' PARTY is in on it either actively or passively, either quiet, mumbling multiplying misgivings into somebody's ear in the cloakroom, OR full-on glaringly OUT in public on "Meet the Press" or "Face the Nation" on Sunday freakin' morning.

I NEVER would have called this one. NEVER would have expected it. NOBODY hated them dang Russkies like a Republican. They'd use it as an insult with which to attack you if they thought you were "soft on Communism" or "Socialist" or some other ridiculous assertion. "Better dead than Red" comes to mind. And "leftist" was as good as "Leninist" or "Stalinist." Synonymous, as a matter of fact. But now? Hell's Bells, it's gone 180-degrees around. Or spun like a top, finally to come to rest at 180-degrees opposite where they were.

Sheesh.

Well, just be observant. Be aware. Be watchful. Know what they're capable of.

Just know it just might be A Thing.