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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (236815)	11/5/2013 8:28:56 AM
From: Metacomet	Respond to of 542907

It is a source of never ending awe what floats to the surface in GOP politics.. ..the ability of each successive champion of the nit-wits to rise above the fray, and then be dissected in the light of day, provides a truly riveting insight into just how odd the Republican mind is.. Or more likely, how a political philosophy, based on greed and authoritarianism, breeds mental midgets.. Let us once again consider the musings of brother Lovecraft.. "As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead." Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574 en.wikiquote.org