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To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (119470)	10/3/2009 9:44:03 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Brooks is way too smart to be conservative. But I disagree with him on one point. The Hate Radio/TV gang did destroy Huckleberry after he won in Iowa. It might be the fact that Huck played bass. Right wingers distrust anyone with talent. "Psst, think he knows The Dixie Chicks?" <G> The millions who watch and listen to these knuckleheads are there. It's just that only a small percentage of them follow blindly.

To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (119470)	10/3/2009 11:36:18 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

GG, the right wingers are popular because the demicans are morons and it is easy to point this out and look like a genius. the republicrats are also morons and they are just waiting until the morons in power implode so they can become the new morons in power. it would be funny, but both sets of morons work for the oligarchs and their #1 job is to loot the treasury on their behalf.

To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (119470)	10/3/2009 8:06:39 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Personally, I think this guy is totally clueless about what happened in the republican primaries. The current republican party has 3-4 major components. 1. The religious right 2. The fiscal conservatives 3. The libertarian right 4. The neocons Huckabee was the strong favorite of the religious right, but was very unattractive to both the libertarians and fiscal conservatives because he's basically a religious liberal. Romney was the favorite of the libertarian right and fiscal conservatives, but he was totally unacceptable to the religious right because he's a Mormon. The necons didn't care either way because they knew that whoever won (including the democrat) they would eventually control foreign policy anyway and that's their gig. Everyone disliked McCain, but not as much as the religious right hated Romney or fiscal conservatives and libertarians hated Huckabee. So that put McCain in a kind of compromise slot. He also gained early strength because independents and democrats were able to vote in some of the early republican primaries (a totally retarded idea) and they went heavily for McCain. If you look at the early primary results for just registered republicans, McCain didn't do nearly as well, but those bogus primaries gave him a lot of momentum. Most of popular talk radio hosts are a weird blend of republican party that includes everything except the libertarians.