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To: stockman_scott who wrote (32471)	9/13/2008 10:47:21 PM
From: zeta1961	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The NYT columnists are out-doing themselves this w/e............fantastic and must reads.....

To: stockman_scott who wrote (32471)	9/14/2008 7:51:10 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Koan: "Talking about Creepy and elephants in the room, those are exactly the correct words and metaphors to characterize so many of the Right wingers and neo cons. Take a good look at the Wolfowitz or Gamm's or Pearl's or Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, Jack Abranhoff, and everyone in lil bush's inner circle. The Republicans are creepy, and their ideas are nuts (Bush hired over 100 law students who graduated from Pat Robertson law school!!), and as bush is both stupid and nuts he surrounds himself with people exactly like himself. Bush actually listened to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell (they were both in his inner circle), and both whom would have been institutionalized in a normal sophisticated society-lol. And I didn't even get to Rove and Card or Ed ??. Everywhere I look on the Republican landscape I see creepy Repubicans. Look at the two senators from Texas BIG John (what an ad) and the lying Kay Baily Hutcheson. Frank Rich: "There were several creepy subtexts at work here. The first was the choice of Truman. Most 20th-century vice presidents and presidents in both parties hailed from small towns, but she just happened to alight on a Democrat who ascended to the presidency when an ailing president died in office. Just as striking was the unnamed writer she quoted. He was identified by Thomas Frank in The Wall Street Journal as the now largely forgotten but once powerful right-wing Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler." Palin, who lies with ease about her own record, misrepresented Pegler’s too. He decreed America was “done for” after Truman won a full term in 1948. For his part, Truman regarded the columnist as a “guttersnipe,” and with good reason. Pegler was a rabid Joe McCarthyite who loathed F.D.R. and Ike and tirelessly advanced the theory that American Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (“geese,” he called them) were all likely Communists. Surely Palin knows no more about Pegler than she does about the Bush doctrine. But the people around her do, and they will be shaping a Palin presidency. That they would inject not just Pegler’s words but spirit into their candidate’s speech shows where they’re coming from. Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, said that the Palin-sparked convention created “a whole new Republican Party,” but what it actually did was exhume an old one from its crypt.