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To: Sam who wrote (44229)	12/8/2007 2:29:33 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 541370

Gail Collins just hit it out of the park with a brilliant column in today's NYT on Romney and other GOP contendas. Thanks, Sam. You are just ten minutes ahead of me. I just finished the Times and other reading stuff and was beginning to decide what to post. Her column was definitely on the list, particularly this portion. Romney’s message, which boiled down to let’s-all-be-religious-together, was certainly different from the John Kennedy version, which argued that a candidate’s religion is irrelevant. But then Kennedy was speaking to the country, while Romney had his attention fixed on the approximately 35,000 Iowa religious conservatives who will tip the balance in the first-in-the-nation Republican caucus. Can I pause here briefly to point out that in New York there are approximately 35,000 people living on some blocks? If my block got to decide the first presidential caucus, I guarantee you we would be as serious about our special role as the folks in Iowa are. And right now Mitt Romney would be evoking the large number of founding fathers who were agnostics. That puts this idiotic primary system and its determinative fate for American politics in as fine a metaphorical setting as I can recall.

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