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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Your Lines Of The Day

Moving along, Reince Priebus, the obvious anagram from Wisconsin who runs the Republican National Committee, and writing in Politico because the security guard obviously got drunk there last night and passed out, has a deep empathy for all those young Obama supporters from 2008 who are so disappointed with what the president has done that they are obviously looking to support a plutocrat with the political equivalent of multiple personality disorder:

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/orrin-hatch-mitt-romney-mormonism-7842893#ixzz1r6uAjk1I



Pierce goes on to quote Joe Scarborough:


Nobody thinks Romney's going to win. Let's just be honest. Can we just say this for everybody at home? Let me just say this for everybody at home. The Republican establishment-- I've yet to meet a single person in the Republican establishment that thinks Mitt Romney is going to win the general election this year. They won't say it on TV because they've got to go on TV and they don't want people writing them nasty emails.  I obviously don't care. I have yet to meet anybody in the Republican establishment that worked for George W. Bush, that works in the Republican congress, that worked for Ronald Reagan that thinks Mitt Romney is going to win the general election.

Finally, an area of bipartisan agreement!

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