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To: tejek who wrote (500279)	8/1/2009 12:56:33 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583371

"The dissing between members of the Rs is increasing at a fairly rapid clip these days" Bill Buckley used to run the National Review. The problem with the (R)'s is that they adopted two groups that now OWN the party. The intellectual (R)'s that adopted them figured that they'd be able to control and use them forever when they took them in. The first group were the racist, redneck southerners when LBJ decided to give American blacks a fair shake. Steve's grandparents were probably FDR-loving (D)'s. The second group were the weepy, bible-thumping, fetus-loving evangelicals that came in with Reagan and even more strongly with Bush, who directly played to them and pretended to be one of them. These groups are all over, but strongly concentrated in Dixie. If the few remaining brains in the (R) party want it back, they need a new base. I don't see how they get there from here.